Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has instructed the country’s military to remain in the area of Syria’s Mount Hermon until at least the end of 2025, a source with knowledge of the matter told CNN on Wednesday.

Netanyahu says Israeli forces will stay in a buffer zone on the Syrian border until another arrangement is found "that ensures Israel’s security.”

Israel’s prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, entered Syrian territory Tuesday and said Israeli troops would remain in the area

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu entered Syrian territory on Tuesday during a security tour of the buffer zone seized by Israel in the days since the fall of Syrian President Bashar Assad.

Austin’s mother, Debra Tice said that she believes her son is held at a secret prison outside the capital city of Damascus and that Netanyahu has assured her that Israel would not carry out attacks ne

The previously unannounced trip highlighted Israel’s expanded military presence across the de facto border with Syria since the fall of Bashar al-Assad.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Sunday that he had a “very warm” phone call with US President-elect Donald Trump, during which they spoke about the need for Israel’s victory in its war on Hamas in Gaza.

Ankara's growing military presence in Syria has led to a diplomatic clash between former allies Israel and Turkey. Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has supported Hamas, even hinting at some sort of armed intervention.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Sunday that he had discussed the situation in Syria with US President-elect Donald Trump, reaffirming Israel's peaceful intentions in the region. "We have no interest in a conflict with Syria,

The Gaza war erupted when Hamas militants stormed into Israel on Oct. 7, 2023, killing 1,200 people and taking 250 hostages, according to Israeli tallies. Israel responded with an air and land offensive that has killed 45,000 people, health authorities there say, displaced 1.2 million and left much of the enclave in ruins.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his Defence Minister Israel Katz visited forward positions of the Israel Army at the peak of snow-capped Mount Hermon. They were in Syria, beyond the demilitarised buffer zone agreed in the aftermath of the 1973 Yom Kippur War.

Following relentless devastating airstrikes on Syria since the fall of the Bashar al-Assad government, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has stated that the Israel Defense Forces troops will continue to occupy a “buffer zone” in the embattled country.