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US envoy Barrack reverses Golan comments, reaffirms Trump's recognition of Israeli sovereignty

Israel conquered the Golan Heights in the Six-Day War, annexing the area by law in 1981. UN Security Council resolution 497, passed only days later, rejected the annexation as "null and void."

US Special Envoy for Syria and Ambassador to Turkey Tom Barrack speaks during a session at Antalya Diplomacy Forum in Antalya, Turkey, April 17, 2026.
Taken before his appointment as Mossad Chief, Roman Gofman attends a ceremony marking the lighting of the first Hanukkah candle of the 7th Armored Brigade at the National Library in Jerusalem, on December 14, 2025.

Mossad director, Syria foreign minister discussed Turkish military presence before strikes

Illustrative image of former commander of the Israeli Navy, V.-Adm. (res.) Eliezer Marom.

Israel struck Syria to prevent Turkey from establishing in the country, fmr. IDF Navy chief says

Prime Minister Netanyahu meets with President Trump in the Oval Office in Washington DC.

Maps of Syria, meeting Trump and Vance: What really happened behind Washington’s doors - analysis


Knesset panel tells government: Pay Nahariya hospital for treating Syrians

“Various parties knew how to take credit for the humanitarian decision to absorb the wounded from the war in Syria, but the matter of paying for the treatment has fallen between the cracks.”

Long empty hospital corridor (illustrative)

A country torn asunder

Alia Malek paints a romantic picture of a prewar Syria.

A shop selling vegetables is seen at al-Shikh Muhialdin in Damascus in August 2008

Why did the IDF employ top-tier anti-ballistic tech against Syria strike?

While there are few doubts about the IAF's ability to prevail strikes like Thursday night's, what comes next?

IAF fighter jets during the Red Flag joint exercise at Nellis air force base in Nevada

Aleppo and Tel Aviv

If Arabs massacre Arabs, if Muslims kill Muslims, how would they behave towards Jews?

People stand near near rubble of damaged buildings in the northern Aleppo countryside in Syria in December 2016

Israeli youth collecting winter supplies for Syrian kids

“This is the least we, the citizens of Israel, can do in the face of this human horror.”

Members of the Civil Defence rescue children after what activists said was an air strike by forces loyal to Syria's President Bashar al-Assad in al-Shaar neighbourhood of Aleppo, Syria June 2, 2014

Rebel fracturing threatens new round of Syria talks

Russia and the United States have hoped that the talks, set for January 25, would bring together Assad officials and rebel leadership around the same table.

A girl carries her brother as she stands at the entrance of her tent during the cold weather in a camp for internally displaced people in Idlib province, Syria

On My Mind: Saving Syria

The Syria Transition Roadmap reviewed Syria’s political system, economy, army and security services, and judiciary, and came up with concrete, workable recommendations for reform.

A MAKESHIFT refugee camp in Suruc on the Turkey, Syria border

Family of Israeli Arab who paraglided into Syria: We don't believe security forces' story

23-year-old Jaljulya man's family says they received a message from an anonymous caller that he is alive and well in Syria; family doesn't believe he flew to Syria to join ISIS.

Smoke rises following an explosion on the Syrian side near the Quneitra border crossing between the Golan Heights and Syria, August 29, 2014.

Eli Cohen remembered on 50th anniversary of execution

President Rivlin: “Israel will always remember him as a true hero who risked his life to safeguard Israel’s security and freedom,”

Reproduction of an Israeli stamp being issued to honour the Mossad intelligence agency spy Eli Cohen who was hanged in Damascus

Court issues first conviction of Israeli-Arab for involvement with ISIS

Hamza Magamseh was arrested in October 2014 for traveling to Syria to join Islamic State, where he spent 10 days at a training camp.

An Islamic State fighter carries the group’s flag in Raqqa, north-central Syria.