Why Syria's Kurds are calling for a strategic alliance with Israel
21 hours ago · The sudden collapse of Bashar Assad's regime in Syria in December 2024 has brought about a Kurdish conceptual shift towards Israel. The Kurdish Turkish political party with a militant armed wing, the Kurdistan's Worker Party (PKK), and its branch in Syria, the Democratic Union Party (PYD), are now calling for a strategic alliance with Israel.
Israel strikes Syria 480 times and seizes territory as Netanyahu
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...
Israel’s Campaign in Syrian Border Area Prompts Fears It Plans to …
3 days ago · Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s order for Israeli troops to “take over” a buffer zone with Syria upended decades of relative calm along the de facto border between the two countries.
Why Israel captured Syria’s tallest mountain just hours after Assad ...
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 strengthens hold on Syrian buffer zone - Associated Press News
Israeli warplanes pounded military sites in Syria after Israeli troops seized a border buffer zone following the collapse of President Bashar Assad’s rule. Israel denied its forces were advancing toward Damascus.
Israeli warplanes pound Syria as troops ... - Associated Press News
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.
Israel Conducts Raids in Syria Amid Accusations of Cease-Fire ...
Jan 5, 2025 · Israel’s continued military operations in Syria, which it said on Sunday are intended to “strengthen the defense of Israel’s citizens,” have drawn accusations from the United Nations and ...
As Israel advances on a Syrian buffer zone, it sees peril and ...
Dec 10, 2024 · Israeli forces have seized a buffer zone in the Golan Heights established by a 1974 ceasefire agreement with Syria after a lightning rebel advance ended Syrian President Bashar Assad’s rule.
Israel strikes and advances into Syrian territory after Assad's ...
Dec 10, 2024 · Explosions rocked Damascus overnight, smoke billowed from a research center north of the capital, and destroyed naval ships sat in the western port of Latakia — all while Israeli ground forces...
Israel Says Its Troops Will Stay in Seized Territory for Now
Dec 12, 2024 · As countries in the Middle East and beyond work out how to respond to a new government in Syria, Israel said on Thursday that its military would stay in Syrian territory it now controls until...