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Senior Israeli and Syrian officials hold U.S.-brokered talks on de-escalation
Barak Ravid
July 24, 2025

Senior Israeli and Syrian ministers met in Paris for four hours on Thursday under the auspices of President Trump’s special envoy Tom Barrack and discussed de-escalation of tensions between the countries. The meeting that was brokered by the Trump administration was the most high-level official engagement between Israel and Syria in more than 25 years. It was the first meeting between the parties since the crisis erupted last week in the city of Suwayda in southern Syria last week and the Israeli strikes on Damascus that followed…In recent weeks, as Trump’s envoy Barrack became more involved in the efforts to reach an Israeli-Syrian security agreement that would be a first step toward normalization, the decision was made that [Ron] Dermer would join the talks. READ MORE