Thomas Barrack, United States Special Envoy for Syria, announced on Friday that Israel and Syria agreed to a ceasefire seeking to resolve tensions between the two countries. 

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu authorized earlier this week rounds of heavy airstrikes against Syrian government targets and aimed to support Druze rebels, an ethnoreligious minority group, in their fight against Sunni Muslim Bedouin forces. The Bedouins are viewed as being more aligned with Syrian President Ahmed al-Sharaa’s government, although he has vowed to protect the Druze minority.