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JERUSALEM, Dec 13 (Reuters) - Israeli Defence Minister Israel Katz has ordered Israeli troops to prepare to stay over the winter on Mount Hermon, a strategic location overlooking Damascus ...

Prime Minister Netanyahu says Israel is establishing a ‘temporary defensive position until a suitable arrangement is found.’ ...

On Sunday, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR) said that Israeli forces had taken over Syrian army positions in parts of Mount Hermon, an area Israel first evacuated in 1974.

In the documents, the ambassador calls Israel's seizure of the Mount Hermon outpost -- which sits on the border between Syria, Lebanon and a U.N.-enforced demilitarized zone -- to be illegal and a ...

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu held a briefing on Mount Hermon's summit on Syrian territory, a strategic location ...

The U.S. launched airstrikes inside Syria Sunday and Israel took control of Mount Hermon after Islamist rebels took over Damascus and deposed the Syrian regime of Bashar al-Assad.

The IDF on Sunday captured the Syrian side of Mount Hermon which was abandoned by ousted Syrian President Bashar al-Assad's army. The decision to capture the area was approved unanimously ...

The Syrian side of Mount Hermon was captured by the Israeli Air Force’s elite Shaldag Unit, which faced no resistance during the operation. The move came in the wake of the fall of Damascus to ...

The IDF, on Sunday afternoon, took over the Syrian side of the Mount Hermon mountain range to expand a demilitarized buffer zone along the border with Syria and also at several other points of ...

"Due to what is happening in Syria - there is enormous security importance to our holding on to the peak of Mount Hermon," a statement from Katz's office said on Friday. The order suggests that ...