{"id":1310,"date":"2025-07-21T14:48:47","date_gmt":"2025-07-21T14:48:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.logicalware.net\/?p=1310"},"modified":"2025-07-22T19:14:58","modified_gmt":"2025-07-22T19:14:58","slug":"us-envoy-criticizes-israels-intervention-in-syria","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.logicalware.net\/index.php\/2025\/07\/21\/us-envoy-criticizes-israels-intervention-in-syria\/","title":{"rendered":"US envoy criticizes Israel's intervention in Syria"},"content":{"rendered":"

President Trump\u2019s special envoy for Syria on Monday criticized Israeli strikes against the country last week as poorly timed and complicating efforts to stabilize the region, in an interview with The Associated Press<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Tom Barrack, U.S. ambassador to Turkey and special envoy for Syria, is engaged in ceasefire efforts to halt sectarian violence in Syria that broke out last week and triggered an Israeli intervention on behalf of Syria\u2019s minority Druze community. A ceasefire was announced July 18.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Speaking in an interview with the AP from Beirut, Barrack said the U.S. was not consulted over Israel\u2019s decision to strike Syria last week, \u201cnor was it the United States\u2019 responsibility in matters that Israel feels is for its own self-defense.\u201d <\/p>\n

But he added that Israel\u2019s intervention \u201ccreates another very confusing chapter\u201d and \u201ccame at a very bad time.\u201d <\/p>\n

Barrack\u2019s criticism follows an Axios report that White House officials are branding Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu as a \u201cmadman\u201d who is undermining Trump\u2019s wider ambitions in the Middle East.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Trump has put his support behind the nascent, interim Syrian government, which took control of the country after ousting long-time dictator Bashar Assad in a lightning offensive at the end of 2024.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Trump announced in May he would lift all U.S. sanctions on the country to give it a chance to rebuild. His administration has also removed the terrorist designation of Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham (HTS), the militant group that led the offensive and removed a $10 million bounty for the HTS\u2019s chief and now interim President Ahmed al-Sharaa.\u00a0<\/p>\n

And while Assad\u2019s ousting was widely celebrated, tensions and violence between sectarian groups persisted. Last week, fighting broke out in Syria\u2019s southern Sweida province between Bedouin fighters and Druze factions. <\/p>\n

More than 300 people were reportedly killed in the fighting and Israel intervened with strikes against Damascus and against Syrian government forces in the south over what it said was protection for the Druze community.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The Druze minority in Israel is deeply respected for its service to the state. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said the strikes were launched to prevent the militarization of Syrian forces on Israel\u2019s northern border and to protect \u201cthe brothers of our brothers, the Druze at the Druze Mountain.\u201d<\/p>\n

Al-Sharaa condemned the Israeli strikes as an attempt to sow \u201cchaos\u201d in the country. <\/p>\n

The Trump administration has sought to broker ties between the interim Syrian government and Israel in what would be a major breakthrough in peace relations in the region. Al-Sharaa has signaled openness to brokering ties with Israel, but Israeli officials are cautious over empowering a government with past ties to terrorism and groups including al Qaeda and ISIS.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

President Trump\u2019s special envoy for Syria on Monday criticized Israeli strikes against the country last week as poorly timed and complicating efforts to stabilize the region, in an interview with<\/p>\n

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