INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
TEHRAN- Israel has carried out an unprecedented air campaign in Syria over the past days as the apartheid and occupation regime is trying to
accused of supporting the armed groups led by Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS).They launched an offensive in Aleppo late last month and took
deployed ground forces both into and beyond a demilitarized buffer zone in the Golan Heights for the first time in 50 years.Syrian sources
its military presence in Syria is aimed at ensuring that the regions adjacent to the occupied Golan Heights are not exposed to any potential
unilaterally annexed it in 1981 in defiance of international law
Israel and Syria signed an agreement in 1974 and a UN observer force has been in place on the ceasefire line in the Golan Heights since then
around 60 kilometers from Damascus.From the top of the plateau, Israel can oversee much of southern Syria and monitor Syrian
later and pledged loyalty to al-Qaeda
In 2017, it cut its connections with al-Qaeda and allied with other factions to rebrand itself as Hayat Tahrir al-Sham.Israel played a key
role in assisting the HTS to conquer Syrian cities
