Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has instructed the country’s military to remain in the area of Syria’s Mount Hermon until at least the end of 2025, a source with knowledge of the matter told CNN on Wednesday.

Netanyahu says Israeli forces will stay in a buffer zone on the Syrian border until another arrangement is found "that ensures Israel’s security.”

Israel’s prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, entered Syrian territory Tuesday and said Israeli troops would remain in the area

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The previously unannounced trip highlighted Israel’s expanded military presence across the de facto border with Syria since the fall of Bashar al-Assad.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu entered Syrian territory on Tuesday during a security tour of the buffer zone seized by Israel in the days since the fall of Syrian President Bashar Assad. Netanyahu said Israel would stay in the buffer zone “until another arrangement is found that will ensure Israel’s security.

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Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his Defence Minister Israel Katz visited forward positions of the Israel Army at the peak of snow-capped Mount Hermon. They were in Syria, beyond the demilitarised buffer zone agreed in the aftermath of the 1973 Yom Kippur War.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced that Israeli forces would remain in a buffer zone on the Syrian border, seized after Assad's ouster until a new security arrangement is in place. Speaking from Mount Hermon,

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Israel seized a swath of southern Syria along the border with the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights days after Bashar al-Assad was ousted by rebels last week. The Israeli PM says the troops will stay until another arrangement is in place "that ensures Israel's security".

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says Israeli forces will stay in a buffer zone on the Syrian border, and specifically on the summit of Mount Hermon, “until another arrangement is found that will ensure Israel’s security.