Israel-Syria talks hit snag over humanitarian corridor, sources say

Efforts to reach a security pact between Syria and Israel have hit a last-minute snag over Israel's demand that it be allowed to open a “humanitarian corridor” to Syria’s southern province of Sweida, four sources familiar with the talks said.

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Rubble lies around Aleppo Citadel which had suffered damage during the years of war in Syria and has now been fully restored and reopened to the public for World Tourism Day in Aleppo, Syria, on September 25, 2025.

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Syria and Israel had come close in recent weeks to agreeing the broad outlines of a pact after months of US-brokered talks in Baku, Paris and London that accelerated in the lead-up to the United Nations General Assembly in New York this week. The pact was intended to create a demilitarised zone that would include the province of Sweida, where sectarian violence in July killed hundreds of people from the Druze, an offshoot of Islam.