Syria and Israel

Syria, Israel in direct talks focused on security, sources say

The two sides have held face-to-face meetings aimed at calming tensions and preventing conflict in the border region.

 Direction and distance sign for the Syrian capital of Damascus at Mount Bental Israeli military outpost on the Syrian border
A delegation of 100 Druze leaders from Syria visits northern Israel for the first time since 1973 on March 14, 2025. Israeli Druze proudly wave their own national flag alongside the Israeli flag in festivals and ceremonies, the writer points out.

Syrian attacks on Druze could be collision course with Israel - analysis

IDF soldiers gather near the ceasefire line between Syria and Israel, in the Golan Heights, December 9, 2024

'Any sane country would do this': Bennett denies IDF advance on Damascus, outlines defensive needs

 Smoke rises after airstrikes on a rebel-held part of the southern city of Deraa, Syria, June 15, 2017 (illustrative).

Iranian military adviser killed in Syria in Israeli attack, Iran's news agency SNN reports


Initial probe: Altitude may have made downed jet vulnerable to Syrian fire

According to a senior IAF officer, Israel has carried out thousands of missions over Syria in past year.

Israeli security forces examine the remains of an F-16 Israeli war plane near the village of Harduf

Russia: Moscow never promised withdrawal of Iranian troops from Syria

IDF Chief of Staff Lt.Gen. Gadi Eisenkot took secret trip to Brussels to meet with top US general to discuss Iranian moves in Syria.

Hezbollah fighters stand near military tanks in Western Qalamoun, Syria

Netanyahu: Israel will act in Syria 'in accordance with our security needs'

A ceasefire agreement allowing Iranian troops 5km from Israel's border is "a real danger to Israel's stability," said former Defense Minister Amir Peretz.

Hezbollah fighter walk near a military tank in Western Qalamoun, Syria August 23, 2017.

The Eastern Front menace that refuses to die

The Iranian quest to turn postwar Syria into an Israeli war front provokes Russian strategy, threatens Syria’s reconstruction and brings to mind an economically bankrupt USSR’s imperial overstretch.

Syrian President Bashar al-Assad (right) meets Iran’s military chief, Gen. Mohammed Baqeri, in Damascus, on October 19

IDF vows to protect Syrian Druze village after Syrian spillover

The resident of a Druze village in the Golan Heights was treated and the IDF is watching the developments of the battles at the Hader region across the border.

IDF Northern Command Commander Maj.-Gen. Yoel Strick and Druze Sheikh Muafik Tarif

Israeli air force destroys Syrian anti-aircraft battery in retaliatory strike

The SA-5 missile battery, which was stationed some 50 kilometers east of the Syrian capital, fired at Israeli jets that were on a routine aerial reconnaissance flight in Lebanese airspace.

Israeli f-16 fighter jet

Let Kurds establish a democracy

Kurdistan’s independence referendum may be controversial and disputed but both sides of the political arena in the region promise a tolerant system with respect for democratic values.

Kurds pose behind Kurdish flag_300

Syria warns Israel: Further attacks will have serious repercussions

Day 2 out of how many?

A man sits on an old tank as he watches fighting taking place in Syria from the Israeli side of the border fence

IDF strikes Syrian targets in response to Golan crossfire

The IDF says spillover from the Syrian civil war is treated with the utmost severity, after several projectile land on Golan.

The Syrian area of Quneitra is seen in the background as an out-of-commission Israeli tank parks on a hill, near the ceasefire line between Israel and Syria, in the Golan Heights.

US strategy and Israel’s stake in eastern Syria

While events in northeast Syria may seem a distance away, there is a direct Israeli interest in the outcome of the current contest.

Still image shows a cloud of black smoke rising from vehicles in the distance in what is said to be Aleppo's outskirts, Syria