Syrian Government Holds Secret Talks With Hezbollah in Turkey

🤝 DAMASCUS — Damascus talks to the militia that bled to keep Assad alive. 📌 LOOK CLOSER: Post-Assad Damascus engaging Hezbollah in Turkey is pragmatism over ideology — HTS needs Lebanese border stability, Hezbollah needs a Syrian corridor that isn't hostile. Turkey deepens its Levant broker role. For Iran, normalization preserves the land bridge without Assad. Israel reads it as the threat network reconstituting under new management.