On 8 December 2024, Israel invaded the buffer zone between Syria and the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights, and carried out an aerial campaign targeting the Syrian Army's military capabilities, following the fall of the Assad regime.. The Syrian civil war, which had erupted in 2011 but subsided since a 2020 ceasefire, saw a series of opposition offensives in 2024 that overthrew the Assad regime ...

1 day ago · Israel conquered most of the Golan from Syria during the 1967 Six Day War, ahead of which several Arab armies had planned an invasion of Israel. Jerusalem annexed the area in 1981, in a move only ...

2 days ago · After the fall of Assad’s regime in Syria on December 8, the country’s de facto leader, Ahmad al-Sharaa, responded to Israeli concerns and offered reassurance that the new Syrian government ...

2 days ago · Israeli troops who seized strategic ground in southern Syria after the fall of Bashar al-Assad will remain on the summit of Mount Hermon indefinitely, Defence Minister Israel Katz said on Tuesday ...

Dec 10, 2024 · Israeli ground forces entered Syrian territory after Netanyahu on Sunday ordered the military to seize that demilitarized “area of separation” between the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights and...

Dec 11, 2024 · DAMASCUS, Syria (AP) — Israel carried out a wave of heavy airstrikes across Syria as its troops advanced deeper into the country, a Syrian opposition war monitor said Tuesday, and the Israeli defense minister announced that his forces had destroyed Syria’s navy.

Dec 14, 2024 · Israel captured the Golan Heights, a strategic plateau in southwestern Syria that abuts Mount Hermon, in the 1967 war and has occupied it since. Syria attempted to retake the territory in a...

Israel–Syria relations refer to the bilateral ties between the State of Israel and the Syrian Arab Republic.

Israel intervened in the Syrian civil war since it began in March 2011. Israeli airstrikes targeted Iranian and Hezbollah forces. After the fall of the Assad regime on December 8, 2024 Israel invaded Syria. From 2011 to 2017, the official position of Israel has been that of strict neutrality.

Dec 11, 2024 · Israel has justified its attacks on Syria for years by claiming it is eliminating Iranian military targets. However, Iran has said none of its forces are currently in Syria. Now, Israel says it...