{"id":13449,"date":"2025-07-13T03:04:02","date_gmt":"2025-07-13T03:04:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/?p=13449"},"modified":"2025-07-13T03:04:02","modified_gmt":"2025-07-13T03:04:02","slug":"syria-israel-meeting-planned-in-baku","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/?p=13449","title":{"rendered":"Syria, Israel meeting planned in Baku"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>A Syrian and an Israeli official are expected to meet in Baku later Saturday on the sidelines of President Ahmed al-Sharaa&#8217;s visit to Azerbaijan, a diplomatic source in Damascus with knowledge of the issue said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;There will be a meeting between a Syrian official and an Israeli official on the sidelines of the visit being conducted by Sharaa in Baku,&#8221; said the source, who requested anonymity due to the sensitivity of the issue.<\/p>\n<p>Israel is a major arms supplier to Azerbaijan and has a significant diplomatic presence in the Caucasus nation which neighbours its arch foe Iran.<\/p>\n<p>The diplomatic source stressed that Sharaa himself would not attend the Baku meeting, which would focus on &#8220;the recent Israeli military presence in Syria&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>After the overthrow of longtime ruler Bashar al-Assad in December, Israel carried out hundreds of air strikes in Syria to prevent key military assets falling into the hands of the Islamist-led interim administration headed by Sharaa.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Syrian and an Israeli official are expected to meet in Baku later Saturday on the sidelines of President Ahmed al-Sharaa&#8217;s visit to Azerbaijan, a diplomatic source in Damascus with knowledge of the issue said. &#8220;There will be a meeting between a Syrian official and an Israeli official on the sidelines of the visit being [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13449","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13449","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13449"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13449\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13449"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13449"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13449"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}