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Tuesday, March 4, 2025
From the Liveblog of
Tuesday, March 4, 2025
Syria’s new leader calls for pressure on Israel to withdraw troops
Egypt's President Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi (R) greets Syria's interim President Ahmed al-Sharaa during the Arab League summit on Gaza, in Cairo, on March 4, 2025. (Egyptian Presidency / AFP)
Syria’s interim President Ahmed al-Sharaa calls on the international community to pressure Israel to “immediately” withdraw its troops from southern Syria, where they are holding a buffer zone and carrying out incursions beyond it, saying this is aimed at defending the Druze minority from the new Islamist leadership.
“We urge the international community to uphold its legal and moral commitments by supporting Syria’s rights and pressuring Israel to immediately withdraw from southern Syria,” says Sharaa during a summit in Cairo, adding that the “hostile expansion is not only a violation of Syrian sovereignty, but also a direct threat to security and peace in the entire region.”
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