Syria and Israel
No peace treaty
History with Israel
- 1948Joined the Arab invasion.
- 1967Lost the Golan Heights in the Six-Day War.
- 1973Attacked with Egypt in the Yom Kippur War. A 1974 deal set up a UN buffer zone on the Golan.
- 1990s–2008Talks under Rabin, Barak and Olmert came close to trading the Golan for peace but never closed. In 2000 they reportedly stalled over a strip of shoreline on the Sea of Galilee.
- 2011–24Civil war. Iran and Hezbollah dug in across Syria, and Israel struck their targets hundreds of times.
- Dec 2024Assad fell. Israel moved into the buffer zone and destroyed much of the Syrian army's weaponry.