After the ouster of Syria's longtime leader Bashar al-Assad last month, Israel's military has taken up a new post in the demilitarized buffer zone created in Syria after the 1973 Arab-Israeli war.

After Abu Mohammed al-Julani was named interim president of Syria, dissolved the parliment, and suspended Syria's constitution, Katz announced that Israel will remain in Syrian territory.

The Israeli army “will remain at the summit of the Hermon (Jabal al-Sheikh) and the security zone indefinitely to ensure the security of the communities of the Golan Heights and the north, and all the residents of Israel,” he said during a visit to Israeli forces in the area.

Israeli Defense Minister Israel Katz announced the indefinite stay of Israeli forces in the Syrian buffer zone to protect the Golan Heights' security. Forces were deployed to prevent Syrian rebels' advance,

Syria's new authority demanded, during talks with UN peacekeeping chief Jean-Pierre Lacroix on Wednesday, Israel's withdrawal from Syrian territory it occupied in the Golan Heights following the ousting of former Syrian president Bashar Al-Assad in December.

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 after visiting troops there.

As Syria’s civil war persists across the border, Israeli residents of the Golan Heights are anticipating the end of decades of relative calm. ALONEI HABASHAN, Israel (JTA) — A fence made of ...

Syria's new authorities on Wednesday urged Israel's withdrawal from Syrian territory it occupied in the Golan Heights after president Bashar al-Assad's ousting, during talks with U.N. peacekeeping chief Jean-Pierre Lacroix,

That's where Ramadan's village is located. Laundry drying on a fence along the border between Syria and the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights. Israel says its military presence in the Golan Heights ...

Since the fall of Bashar al-Assad, the Israel military has taken new positions in Golan Heights areas. (Ayman Oghanna for NPR) QUNEITRA PROVINCE, GOLAN HEIGHTS, Syria — The Golan Heights is a ...

The Abraham Accords agreement is another significant accomplishment for Trump. It signaled a new approach to the Middle East which ended the false belief that the failure of Israel to reach a peace agreement with the Palestinian Authority was the ultimate cause of discord and war in the Middle East.

Israel 's minister of defence announced on Wednesday that Israeli forces will remain in the Jenin refugee camp in occupied West Bank and in Syrian territory that it recently seized bordering the occupied Golan Heights.