The US president spoke to the prime minister the day after he met Syrian President Ahmad al-Sharaa; He said Israel should begin redeploying in Syria and urged him to do the same in Lebanon ynet| Related TopicsU.S. President Donald Trump told Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu that Israel must begin redeploying its forces out of Syria, and urged him to do the same in Lebanon, U.S. and Israeli officials told Axios.“They don't want you there. You should redeploy,” Trump told Netanyahu, according to the U.S. official, who added that the same applies to Lebanon.Trump met al-Sharaa last week in Turkey on the sidelines of the NATO Summit (Photo: Jonathan Ernst/Reuters )The Trump administration had spent months trying to reach a new security agreement between Israel and Syria, but eventually concluded that Netanyahu was unwilling to make the concessions the administration had requested. According to U.S. officials, one of those concessions was a gradual IDF withdrawal from areas in Syria that Israel seized after the collapse of the Assad regime in December 2024.The sides also held secret contacts, reportedly mediated in part by the United Arab Emirates, but they ultimately did not mature into a new security arrangement that would lead to an IDF withdrawal from the buffer zone.Comments