Syria’s new President Ahmed al-Sharaa has expressed interest in normalizing relations with Israel, according to U.S. Congressman Cory Mills, who spoke to Bloomberg on Thursday following a meeting with Sharaa in Syria last week. Mills revealed that discussions with Sharaa covered the conditions for lifting U.S.-imposed economic sanctions on Syria and the potential for a peace agreement with Israel. Sharaa indicated that Syria would be open to joining the Abraham Accords—normalization agreements brokered by former U.S. President Donald Trump’s administration between Israel and countries including the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain, and Morocco, “under the right conditions.”
