Moscow, July 19 -- Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Syria's transitional president Ahmed al-Sharaa have agreed on a ceasefire, US Ambassador to Turkey and Special Envoy for Syria, Thomas Barrack, said.

"Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu and Syrian President Ahmed al-Sharaa supported by the [US Secretary of State Marco] Rubio have agreed to a ceasefire embraced by Turkiye, Jordan and its neighbors. We call upon Druze, Bedouins, and Sunnis to put down their weapons and together with other minorities build a new and united Syrian identity in peace and prosperity with its neighbors," Barrack wrote on X.

A source in the Turkish Foreign Ministry told Sputnik that Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan had told Rubio over the phone tha...