Syria, Hezbollah Exchange Messages to Ease Security Tensions through Turkish Mediation - ASHARQ AL-AWSAT English
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- سوريا و«حزب الله» تتبادلان رسائل لتخفيف التوترات الأمنية عبر الوساطة التركية - «الشرق الأوسط» الإنجليزية
- English title
- Syria, Hezbollah Exchange Messages to Ease Security Tensions through Turkish Mediation - ASHARQ AL-AWSAT English
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Security issues dominated secret Turkish-mediated talks between Hezbollah and Syria, during which the two sides exchanged messages aimed at easing tensions.
Hezbollah offered assurances that it would stay out of Syria’s security and military affairs and refrain from supporting groups affiliated with the former government, in return for a Syrian pledge not to intervene militarily in Lebanon as part of any plan to disarm the group there.
Reuters cited six sources familiar with the matter as saying representatives of the Syrian government and Lebanon’s Hezbollah held direct talks in Türkiye in an…source ↗