Per the IDF, since the Yom Kippur War in 1973, Israel and Syria have been in a tense ceasefire maintained since 1974 in the U.N.-manned Area of Separation by UNDOF. Over decades, shifting dynamics, ...
Israeli jets struck seven crossing points along the Syria-Lebanon border on Friday, aiming to cut the flow of weapons to the Iranian-backed Hezbollah group in southern Lebanon.
But it is Israel’s capture of Syria’s highest peak, the Mount Hermon summit, that may prove among the most lasting prizes – though officials have insisted that its occupation is temporary.