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This handout photograph released by the Lebanese Presidency press office shows Lebanon's President Joseph Aoun (R) meeting with Syria's Foreign Minister Asaad al-Shaibani at the presidential palace in Baabda on July 2, 2026. (Photo by Lebanese Presidency / AFP)
July 2, 2026, 2:50 pm
Syrian FM says Damascus open to meeting Hezbollah, after Trump said it should fight group
Asaad al-Shaibani visits Lebanon, meets President Aoun and Hezbollah-allied parliament speaker Berri, after Israel, Syria and Lebanon rejected US suggestion
By Reuters
US President Donald Trump's gift of Trump cologne to Syrian President Ahmed al-Sharaa, in an image posted May 19, 2026. (Ahmed al-Sharaa/X)
May 20, 2026, 8:33 pm
Trump gifts Syria’s Sharaa cologne after spraying him in viral Oval Office clip
Syrian leader posts photo of present, harking back to White House meeting where Trump gave him a similar gift before asking him how many wives he had
By AFP
Syrian Minister of Foreign Affairs and Expatriates Asaad Al-Shaibani attends a meeting in Moscow on December 24, 2025. (Photo by Handout / RUSSIAN FOREIGN MINISTRY / AFP)
February 14, 2026, 11:10 pm
Syrian FM: Security talks with Israel are focused on buffer zone, not Golan Heights
Asaad al-Shaibani clarifies negotiations are about IDF presence in border areas that Israeli troops entered after Assad regime’s overthrow, says control of Golan ‘is another issue’
By AFP and ToI Staff
View of the first snow this winter on Mount Hermon in Syria, as seen from the northern Golan Heights near the Syrian border, on December 13, 2025. (Michael Giladi/Flash90)
January 6, 2026, 6:06 pm
Israel and Syria agree on mechanism to share intel, seek economic ties
Pact reached on 2nd day of renewed talks; source in Damascus reportedly claims there are indications Israel may agree to regard violence in Druze area of Sweida as internal matter
By Lazar Berman
Israeli troops patrol the border fence with Syria near the Druze village of Majdal Shams in the Golan Heights on July 23, 2025 (Jalaa MAREY / AFP)
September 17, 2025, 10:17 am
Israel presented Syria with detailed proposal for new security agreement – report
Top Israeli, Syrian and US officials said to meet in London to discuss plan that would see no Syrian troops near Israeli border, air corridor that would enable Israel to strike Iran
By Lazar Berman, ToI Staff and Agencies
Screen capture from video purportedly showing an alleged Israeli air strike on Homs, Syria, September 8, 2025. (X)
September 9, 2025, 12:50 pm
Syria says Israel bombed 3 locations, fumes at ‘blatant infringement’ of sovereignty
No immediate comment from IDF on reported strikes near Homs, Latakia and Palmyra
By Agencies and ToI Staff
This combination of pictures created on July 25, 2025, shows Syrian Foreign Minister Asaad al-Shaibani (L) and Israel's Strategic Affairs Minister Ron Dermer. (AFP)
August 20, 2025, 3:39 am
Syria issues rare confirmation of talks with Israel as US pushes to stabilize ties
No comment from Israel on Paris talks between PM’s top aide Dermer, Syrian FM; US official says Trump administration backs ‘any efforts that will bring lasting stability and peace’
By Agencies and ToI Staff
Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov, right, and Syrian Foreign Minister Asaad al-Shaibani, left, attend a joint news conference following their meeting in Moscow, Russia, July 31, 2025. (Shamil Zhumatov/Pool Photo via AP)
July 31, 2025, 10:09 pm
Syrian FM meets Putin and Lavrov, in first Russia visit since fall of Assad regime
Shaibani thanks Moscow for denouncing Israeli strikes on Syria, hopes for warm ties despite Putin’s backing for former dictator; Lavrov invites Sharaa to summit with Arab League
By Agencies and ToI Staff
(L-R) Strategic Affairs Minister Ron Dermer, US special envoy to Syria Tom Barrack and Syrian Foreign Minister Asaad al-Shaibani. (Collage/AFP)
July 24, 2025, 10:17 pm
Israeli and Syrian ministers meet for 1st time since 2000, in US-facilitated dialogue
Barrack says goal of Paris meeting was ‘de-escalation, and we accomplished precisely that’; Dermer said to represent Israel and al-Qaeda fighter-turned Syrian FM represents Sharaa
By Lazar Berman
Syria's interim President Ahmad al-Sharaa listens during a joint press conference with French President Emmanuel Macron after a meeting at the Elysee Palace in Paris, May 7, 2025. (Stephanie Lecocq/Pool via AP)
May 12, 2025, 10:16 am
Trump Tower Damascus? Syria seeks to charm US president for sanctions relief
With Gulf help, Sharaa launches bid to get face time with Trump during his Mideast visit, with a pitch that includes a detente with Israel and US access to Syria’s oil and gas
By Timour Azhari and Humeyra Pamuk
A Syrian woman speaks with an employee at a currency exchange shop in Damascus on April 16, 2025 (Photo by LOUAI BESHARA / AFP)
April 26, 2025, 9:28 am
Syrian response to US conditions for sanctions relief: We won’t threaten Israel
Letter sent by new rulers in Damascus also promises to crack down on Palestinian groups operating in Syria, vows to tackle chemical weapons stockpiles
By Reuters
Syrian Foreign Minister Asaad al-Shaibani raises the new Syrian flag during a flag raising ceremony at the United Nations Headquarters in New York on April 25, 2025. (Photo by ANGELA WEISS / AFP)
April 26, 2025, 8:20 am
Syrian foreign minister raises new flag at UN, calls for Israeli withdrawal
In speech to Security Council, Asaad al-Shaibani urges world body to pressure Israel to leave buffer zone on border, end strikes; insists Syria does not pose threat to neighbors
By AFP
A member of a UN chemical weapons investigation team takes samples from sand near Damascus, Syria, August 28, 2013. (AP/United Media Office of Arbeen)
March 6, 2025, 10:57 am
Syria vows end to ‘painful legacy’ of chemical arms
In first, foreign minister addresses executive council of Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons, commits ‘to dismantle whatever may be left’ from Assad regime
By Agencies
Syria's then-de facto leader, now interim president Ahmad al-Sharaa, formerly known as Abu Mohammed al-Julani, walks in the presidential palace in Damascus, December 28, 2024. Mosa'ab Elshamy/ AP)
February 2, 2025, 12:23 pm
Syria’s interim president heads to Saudi Arabia on first diplomatic trip
In what is likely a signal to Iran, former rebel leader Ahmed al-Sharaa visits Riyadh in bid to rebuild ties with Gulf giant after years of Iranian dominance in Damascus
By Jon Gambrell
Lebanese Foreign Minister Abdallah Bou Habib arrives to attend an extraordinary Arab foreign ministers meeting at the Arab League headquarters in Cairo, Egypt, Wednesday, Oct. 11, 2023, to discuss the ongoing Israel-Hamas war. (AP Photo/Amr Nabil)
December 26, 2024, 3:16 pm
Lebanon hopes for neighborly relations in first message to new Syria government
Lebanese Foreign Minister Abdallah Bou Habib speaks by phone with his Syrian counterpart, Asaad Hassan al-Shibani
By Reuters and ToI Staff
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