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Israel-Syria security talks resume in Paris

US envoy Tom Barrack will mediate the new round of negotiations amid a stalemate over Israel’s ‘buffer zone’ to the east of the Golan Heights

January 5, 2026 14:24
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Syrian Foreign Minister Asaad al-Shaibani (L) watches as US special envoy for Syria Tom Barrack (R) prepares to sign a US and Jordanian-backed peace agreement in Damascus on September 16, 2025 (Getty Images)

By

Amelie Botbol ,

Jewish News Syndicate

1 min read

Senior Israeli and Syrian officials met in Paris on Monday for two days of US-mediated negotiations on a border security agreement.

Syria’s state-run SANA news agency, citing a government official, said a delegation led by the country's Foreign Minister Asaad al-Shaibani and General Intelligence chief Hussein al-Salama was taking part in the Paris talks.

They will focus on reactivating the 1974 disengagement agreement and securing an Israeli pullback to lines held before December 8, 2024, the date the Assad regime fell, under a “reciprocal security agreement” that preserves Syria’s “non-negotiable” national rights, according to the official.

The talks, the fifth round in total but the first in nearly two months, follow President Donald Trump's request to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at their Mar-a-Lago meeting last week, a "source with knowledge" told journalist Barak Ravid, who also cited an Israeli official in his reporting.

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