Syrian President Ahmed al-Sharaa said Damascus is engaged in “advanced” negotiations with Israel, with U.S. mediation, to update the 1974 disengagement accord that has governed the cease-fire line on the Golan Heights for half a century. Al-Sharaa told Arab media that any agreement would rest on the original armistice line and seek to establish new security arrangements along the border. Israeli broadcaster Channel 12 reported that a draft deal under discussion would create security guarantees aimed at protecting Israel, including a prohibition on deploying strategic weapons in Syria, disarmament provisions for the Golan Heights and a ban on Turkey’s participation in rebuilding Syrian military capabilities. Neither government has publicly confirmed those specific terms, but officials on both sides described the talks as the most substantive since the fall of Bashar al-Assad in late 2024. Al-Sharaa is scheduled to deliver Syria’s address at the United Nations General Assembly in New York next month, providing an international platform to outline his government’s emerging regional policy. The diplomatic push follows his weekend meeting with survivors of the 2013 chemical attack in Eastern Ghouta, where he pledged accountability for past atrocities.