Pained and angered by deadly clashes between Islamist and Druze gunmen in Syria in recent weeks, leaders of Israel's own Druze minority say the Israeli military was right to intervene to defend the Druze and should do so again if violence restarts.

President Trump says he will move to normalize relations and lift sanctions on Syria's new government to give the country "a chance at peace."

US President Donald Trump on Wednesday had tea with a former jihadist who until recently had a $10 million US bounty on his head.

President Donald Trump laid out a number of asks of Syrian President Ahmed al-Sharaa, including to fully normalize relations with Israel under Abraham Accords in exchange for sanctions relief.

In December, a consortium of rebel factions led by the group Hayat Tahrir al-Sham unexpectedly toppled the dictator Bashar al-Assad, whose family had ruled Syria for five decades. The new regime in Damascus inherited a country ruined by a 13-year civil war.

Trump says we might normalize relations with Syria: Last year, Bashar al-Assad's regime collapsed. Now, President Donald Trump is in the Middle East, exploring normalizing relations with the new government of Syria and promising to lift sanctions.

Israel's right-wing government has maintained a diplomatic silence this week as U.S. President Donald Trump fired off a blizzard of announcements that have shaken Israeli assumptions about their country's standing with its most important ally.

Five months after its liberation from the police state of Bashar al-Assad, Syria sometimes looks like a country in civil war. Sectarian clashes have turned into street battles with rockets and mortars.

U.S. President Donald Trump on Wednesady became the first American president to meet with his Syrian counterpart in a quarter of century, holding informal talks with interim President Ahmed al-Sharaa in Riyadh.

With the fall of the Assad regime, a change of Syrian leadership presented an opportunity for Israel to soothe relations with its neighbour and alleviate trouble at the border, but the Netanyahu government's choice,