Syrian opposition leader: Assad signed deals with Israel
President Bashar Assad's regime secretly signed economic and diplomatic deals with Israel, a Syrian businessman who is a member of the opposition in the war-torn country told Al Arabiya.
Firas Talas, the brother of Manaf Talas, Assad's former right-hand man who defected in July, said one of the deals called for the direct supply of Syrian oil to Israel. He claimed Assad's people murdered former prime minister Mahmoud Zuabi because he planned to expose the agreements. (Roi Kais)
