Syrian interim leader Ahmad al-Sharaa<\/a> said that Syria is working toward a security agreement with Israel, with the participation of several countries, in hopes of paving the way for broader peace while safeguarding Syria’s rights.<\/p>\nIn an interview with Al Jazeera aired on Sunday, al-Sharaa said Damascus is seeking to avoid military confrontation with Israel and views such an arrangement as a possible gateway to a more comprehensive resolution.<\/p>\n
However, he stressed that any future agreement would not compromise Syria’s rights to the occupied Golan Heights.<\/p>\n
Israel has launched waves of strikes and incursions in southern Syria since the collapse of former president Bashar Assad’s government in December 2024.<\/p>\n
On neighboring Lebanon, al-Sharaa dismissed speculation of Syrian military intervention, saying that Damascus has no intention of deploying forces there.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Syrian interim leader Ahmad al-Sharaa meets with US President Donald Trump (not in photo) on the sidelines of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":224338,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[30],"tags":[1828,670,37069,37,6452,95],"class_list":["post-224337","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-syria","tag-ahmad-al-sharaa","tag-damascus","tag-interim-leader","tag-israel","tag-security-agreement","tag-syria"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@iran\/116990612056473162","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224337","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=224337"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224337\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/224338"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=224337"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=224337"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=224337"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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Syrian interim leader Ahmad al-Sharaa meets with US President Donald Trump (not in photo) on the sidelines of the NATO summit in Ankara, Turkiye, July 8, 2026. (PHOTO \/ AP)<\/p>\n