Syria’s president says he could consider “long-term negotiations” with Israel on the occupied Golan Heights if Israel agrees to withdraw from recently occupied Syrian territory, Al Jazeera reports.

Al-Sharaa said Syria wanted “either to establish new rules that would reactivate the disengagement agreement or conclude a new agreement”.

“If we reach an agreement, we could enter into long-term negotiations to resolve the issue of the occupied Golan,” the Syrian president told a diplomatic forum in the Turkish city of Antalya.

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