{"id":250676,"date":"2026-04-06T14:49:07","date_gmt":"2026-04-06T10:49:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/?p=250676"},"modified":"2026-04-06T14:52:41","modified_gmt":"2026-04-06T10:52:41","slug":"ukraine-and-syria-to-deepen-security-cooperation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/news\/250676\/","title":{"rendered":"Ukraine and Syria to deepen security cooperation"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><body><p>Ukraine and Syria pledged greater security cooperation in talks in Damascus on Sunday, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.euronews.com\/2026\/04\/06\/ukraine-and-syria-to-cooperate-on-security-in-unexpected-military-alliance\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Euronews<\/a> writes.<\/p>\n<p>Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky&rsquo;s visit to Syria and the meeting with interim President Ahmad al-Sharaa marked Zelensky&rsquo;s first trip to the country since Syria&rsquo;s former president Bashar al-Assad was ousted in 2024.<\/p>\n<p>Zelensky said Kyiv and Damascus would work more closely together so that the two countries and people &ldquo;can become stronger,&rdquo; and their &ldquo;economies can grow.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;We discussed in detail how to overcome the consequences of the war, as well as the negotiation process regarding Russia&rsquo;s war against our state and our people,&rdquo; Zelensky wrote on X.<\/p>\n<p>Syria&rsquo;s al-Sharaa said the two leaders focused on &ldquo;ways to strengthen economic cooperation and exchange expertise.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ukraine and Syria pledged greater security cooperation in talks in Damascus on Sunday, Euronews writes. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky&rsquo;s visit to Syria and the meeting with interim President Ahmad al-Sharaa marked Zelensky&rsquo;s first trip to the country since Syria&rsquo;s former president Bashar al-Assad was ousted in 2024. Zelensky said Kyiv and Damascus would work more [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":250672,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,35,43],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-250676","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-politics","category-world"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/250676","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=250676"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/250676\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":250678,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/250676\/revisions\/250678"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/250672"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=250676"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=250676"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=250676"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}