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Monday, July 14, 2025
After IDF strikes tanks, Syrian FM condemns outside interference in internal affairs
Nurit Yohanan is The Times of Israel's Palestinian and Arab world correspondent
The Syrian foreign minister indirectly addressed the IDF fire: “No one has the authority to interfere in our affairs.”
Syrian Foreign Minister Asaad al-Shaibani tells Saudi news outlet al-Hadath that “no one has the authority” to interfere in internal Syrian affairs, in what appears to be a veiled reference to the IDF’s shelling of tanks in southern Syria earlier today.
He says as much while discussing the deadly clashes between Bedouin tribes and Druze fighters in recent days in the area where the strikes were carried out.
Al-Shibani adds that it is the responsibility of the state, and nobody else, to bear arms.
“Syria is beginning to return to its natural place in the Arab and international arenas,” he says.
Al-Shibani is currently in Brussels for meetings at the European Union. Foreign Minister Gideon Sa’ar is there as well, though his spokesperson says there are no personal meetings planned with his Syrian counterpart.
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