The U.S. envoy for Syria said this week that Jerusalem and Damascus are engaged in “meaningful” talks to restore calm to the shared border region.

Is a new chapter dawning in the Middle East? Amid the rubble of past wars, failed ideologies, and crumbling alliances, a possibility is emerging that seemed unthinkable just a few years ago: peace between Syria and Israel.

The recovered archive includes original documents, Cohen’s forged passport, apartment keys, and coded messages.

The meeting, the first between U.S. and Syrian leaders in 25 years, was hailed by Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan as “historic.”

Syrian leader Ahmed al-Sharaa criticized “random Israeli interventions” in Syria, and said the indirect talks are aimed to “contain” the situation.

Elite Israeli units uncovered bunkers and an arms cache in the cross-border strike, amid efforts to shield Druze villages from violence.

Five wounded Syrian Druze civilians evacuated to Ziv Medical Center in the Galilee.

President Ahmed al-Sharaa must “protect the Druze in the suburbs of Damascus from attacks by jihadist rioters,” said Defense Minister Israel Katz.

More than 500 residents of Syria were allowed by their country’s new rulers and Jerusalem to join a pilgrimage in the Galilee.