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Source: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/07/world/europe/syria-france-al-shara-macron.html
Syrian Leader Says Country Has Held Indirect Talks with Israel
(New York Times) Euan Ward - President Ahmed al-Shara of Syria said on Wednesday that Syria had held indirect talks with Israel to contain escalating tensions, days after Israeli jets struck the capital, Damascus, amid deepening sectarian violence inside the country "There are indirect talks through mediators to calm down the situation so that they don't get out of control," Mr. al-Shara said after a meeting in Paris with President Emmanuel Macron of France. Reuters reported earlier on Wednesday that the United Arab Emirates had set up a back channel for talks between Israel and Syria, but an official at the Emirati foreign ministry denied those claims as "categorically false."