Syria’s state-run news agency says the country’s foreign minister has held a rare meeting with an Israeli delegation in Paris.

ERBIL, Kurdistan Region - Syrian Foreign Minister Asaad al-Shaibani on Tuesday held a rare meeting with Ron Dermer, Israel’s Strategic Affairs Minister and top aide to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu,

The IDF has launched an investigation to understand why the soldiers collected the grenade instead of detonating it on-site. Four IDF soldiers were lightly injured in an explosion in southern Syria, the IDF confirmed on Wednesday.

The Paris meeting between Syrian Foreign Minister Asaad Al-Shaibani and the Israeli delegation, under indirect US oversight, marks a notable point in Syrian-Israeli relations, but it is not a strategic shift. Rather, it represents a pause in a highly tense region.

The talks in Paris brokered by the United States were the latest effort to reduce tensions between the two longstanding foes, and came after Israel launched airstrikes on the Syrian capital last month.

In US-brokered talks, Syria and Israel discussed restoring a 1974 ceasefire to de-escalate tensions following the fall of Bashar al-Assad's regime.View on euronews

I’d say these people are animals, but that would be unfair — to animals,’ the mother of a slain boy says of the jihadists who last month descended

Many may not be aware of recent attacks on the Druze community in southern Syria. It came to the world’s attention when Israel bombed in Syria stating that they are protecting their Druze allies. This in itself brought the Syrian Druze dangerous, unwanted attention.