Syria responds to a blog post about holding direct talks with Hezbollah in Türkiye

On Thursday, the Syrian government responded to allegations about holding direct talks with the Lebanese Hezbollah group in Türkiye. The allegation came in a post published by the owner of the account Timour Azhari on the X platform (formerly Twitter), in which he stated: “The Syrian government and the Lebanese armed group Hezbollah held direct talks in Turkey in an attempt to calm tensions between them, according to six sources familiar with the first known meeting between these two parties, which have long been adversaries.”

The “Syrian Response” page, managed by the Syrian government, responded with a blog post on the

On Tuesday, the official Syrian Al-Ikhbariya channel quoted the Internal Security Forces as saying that this took place as part of a “preemptive security operation” in cooperation with the General Intelligence Service. Since the overthrow of Bashar al-Assad's regime, Hezbollah has repeatedly denied involvement in military movements inside Syria.