President al-Sharaa says talks between Syria and Israel may lead to a security agreement soon.Syria’s President Ahmed al-Sharaa has said that security talks with Israel are a “necessity” and could lead to results in the “coming days”.Al-Sharaa, who led the force that overthrew former President Bashar al-Assad in December, ending the country’s 13-year war, made the comments to reporters on Wednesday.Recommended Stories list of 3 itemsend of listIsrael responded to al-Assad’s overthrow by declaring that a 1974 security agreement with Syria had collapsed, and increased the amount of Syrian territory Israel controlled, as well as ramping up air attacks in Syria, killing several Syrian soldiers over the past few months.The United States, which has backed Syria’s new authorities, has attempted to broker a deal between Syria and Israel.However, al-Sharaa said that the US had not pressured Syria to make a deal with Israel, and was instead acting as a mediator.The Syrian president added that the potential agreement between Israel and Syria would need to respect Syria’s airspace, which Israel has repeatedly violated for years, as well as Syria’s territorial integrity. He added that the United Nations would need to monitor any agreement.A security agreement could lead to other agreements being reached, al-Sharaa said, but a normalisation agreement between the two countries was not currently on the table.Israeli interventionIsrael’s most recent ground incursion in Syria came on Sunday, when Israeli soldiers carried out searches in the towns of …
