A senior U.S. official told Axios that American intelligence assessments do not show any involvement by the Syrian government in the recent atrocities reported in the southern governorate of Suwayda. The official said available information fails to link Damascus to the violence against the predominantly Druze population in the area. Separately, Israeli officials informed Washington that they regard the incident as comparable to the October 7 Hamas assault on Israel, underscoring Israeli concern about the scale and nature of the attack. The diverging assessments come as diplomats work on a possible new security arrangement between Israel and Syria, a process U.S. officials now warn could be severely set back in the coming hours.