Syrian President Ahmed al-Sharaa is slated to deliver Syria’s address to the U.N. General Assembly in New York next month, a Syrian official told Reuters. It will be the first appearance by a Syrian head of state at the annual gathering since the fall of Bashar al-Assad last year. The announcement came on the same day the U.S. Treasury formally removed Syria from its federal sanctions list. U.S. Special Envoy for Syria Thomas Barrack met al-Sharaa in Damascus, while a bipartisan congressional delegation led by Senator Jeanne Shaheen and Representative Joe Wilson held separate talks, including discussions on folding the U.S-backed Syrian Democratic Forces into the national army. Damascus and Jerusalem are meanwhile in advanced, U.S.-mediated negotiations aimed at updating the 1974 disengagement accord and establishing new security arrangements along their shared frontier, according to Syrian and Israeli media reports. Tensions flared nonetheless when Syria accused Israel of sending about 60 troops across the border near Mount Hermon on Monday and seizing the Tel Bat al-Warda hilltop. Syria’s Foreign Ministry denounced the move as a “direct threat to regional peace,” while an Israeli military spokesperson described the operation as routine and denied making arrests. The incident underscored the fragility of the nascent talks even as diplomatic channels widen.