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Israel carried out airstrikes on a Syrian airbase, prompting the United States to condemn what it called an 'unnecessary escalation.' Damascus described the strikes as an 'unjustified act of aggression' that threatened regional security, adding to tensions between Israel and the new Syrian government. Syria's state news agency SANA has since confirmed that Syria and Israel held high-level, US-mediated talks in Jordan aimed at easing tensions following the strikes on the Abu al-Duhur airbase. The talks, the first negotiations between the two countries in several months, also addressed keeping Syria out of the broader Israel-Turkey tensions, according to a diplomatic source and AFP.