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Syria's interim President Ahmed al-Sharaa (C) leaves a bilateral room after his meeting with Qatar's Minister of Foreign Affairs during the Antalya Diplomacy Forum, in Antalya, on April 11
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Sharaa rules out Israel normalisation despite security talks

Syrian President Ahmed Al-Sharaa has ruled out normalizing ties with Israel, saying this could not happen amid the occupation of the Golan Heights

The New Arab Staff
27 August, 2025
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Syria denies reports that it will sign security deal with Israel

The New Arab Staff
22 August, 2025
Israel is expanding settlements in Syria's Golan Heights despite its opposition to unofficial settlements beyond the fence
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Israelis try to set up settlement in Syria beyond Golan Heights

The New Arab Staff
19 August, 2025
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Syria, US discuss return to 1974 disengagement deal with Israel

The New Arab Staff
05 July, 2025
Syrian residents of the Golan Heights, occupied in 1967, have demanded that it be returned to Syria [Getty]
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Syria state media says Israel peace deal talk is 'premature'

The New Arab Staff & Agencies
03 July, 2025
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Syrian Golan residents urge no compromise in talks with Israel

The New Arab Staff
02 July, 2025
Israel has occupied the Syrian Golan Heights since 1967 [Getty]
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Will Syria sign a peace agreement with Israel?

The New Arab Staff
29 June, 2025
Israel has increased its raids on southern Syria since the beginning of its war with Iran
Post-Assad Syria
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Israel raids Quneitra villages, child injured in drone fallout

The New Arab Staff
24 June, 2025
A view of damaged Syrian army tanks and other heavy weapons is seen in the Yarmouk area, after Israeli artillery fire hit the area in response to rockets launched into Daraa, Syria, on June 04, 2025. (Photo by Muhammed Malik Hattab/Anadolu/Getty)
Post-Assad Syria
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Hamas-linked group claims rocket fire on Israel from Syria

The New Arab Staff & Agencies
05 June, 2025
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US envoy to Syria tours Golan Heights with Israeli minister Katz

The New Arab Staff
04 June, 2025
A view of military vehicles patrolling the Syrian-Israeli border in the Majdal Shams area of the Golan Heights, as the Israeli army reinforces its ground forces amid ongoing military mobilization in the region on December 15, 2024.
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Syria official denies contact with Israel, amid huge backlash

The New Arab Staff
28 May, 2025
Israel continues to carry out illegal incursions into Syria from its occupied territory in the Golan Heights
Post-Assad Syria
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Israel steps up Quneitra incursions, abducts civilians in Syria

The New Arab Staff
10 May, 2025
14 buses carrying 682 people, including clerics and opinion leaders from the Druze community in Syria, enter Israel through the Majdal Shams border crossing in the Golan Heights, on April 25, 2025 in Israel.
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Syrian Druze leaders make controversial religious trip to Israel

The New Arab Staff
25 April, 2025
Israel has expanded its illegal occupation of the Golan Heights
Post-Assad Syria
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Israel cancels 'provocative' tours inside occupied Syria

The New Arab Staff
12 April, 2025
Israel has expanded its occupation of the Syrian Golan Heights since the overthrow of Assad
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Israel to allow 'Passover tours' in occupied Syrian territory

The New Arab Staff
04 April, 2025
A bus transporting visiting Druze men from Syria drives through a border barrier guarded by Israeli soldiers, as it approaches the village of Majdal Shams in the Israeli-annexed Golan Heights
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Israel cancels Syrian Druze entry into Golan for work

The New Arab Staff
02 April, 2025
Hundreds of people were displaced following the Israeli attack [Getty]
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Did Hezbollah fight Israel in the strategic Syrian town of Koya?

Amr Salahi
27 March, 2025
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Israel is exploiting the fall of the Assad regime

The Arab Centre for Research and Policy Studies

ACRPS

17 March, 2025
Druze clerics from Syria visit Israel for the first time for religious pilgrimage [Getty]
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Syrian Druze clerics head to Israel for first pilgrimage

The New Arab Staff & Agencies
14 March, 2025
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Exile, loss and rebirth in Ameer Fakher Eldin's Yunan

Mariana Hristova

Mariana Hristova

07 March, 2025
Israeli forces have launched regular ground incursions into Syria since the fall of the Assad regime [Getty]
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Israeli forces launch deepest incursion yet into southern Syria

The New Arab Staff
05 March, 2025