Overview
- Asaad Al Shibani said negotiations target Israeli withdrawal from areas entered after December 8, 2024, and do not address the Golan Heights.
- He outlined conditions for any deal that include ending airspace violations and incursions and refraining from interference in Syrian sovereignty.
- Officials noted several recent rounds of direct talks, with a January agreement to launch an intelligence‑sharing mechanism under U.S. pressure.
- Following Assad’s fall, Israel deployed forces into parts of a United Nations‑monitored buffer zone on the Golan front.
- Damascus is urging an international reconstruction conference and says it is integrating Kurdish institutions, while ISIS‑linked detainees were transferred to Iraq.