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‘A miscalculation is a matter of time’: Fears in Cyprus buffer zone as tensions rise
The noise of assault rifles being cocked carries across the United Nations-controlled buffer zone in ethnically cleaved Cyprus, ratcheting up concerns that the embers of the island's stagnant ...
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Netanyahu Orders Army to Take Syria Buffer Zone, Calls for ‘Neighborly Relations’
The 155-square-mile buffer zone was created by a 1974 agreement between both countries and United Nations peacekeepers were stationed within the buffer zone. “This is a temporary defensive ...
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Netanyahu Tours Syrian Buffer Zone After Assad's Fall
The visit follows Israel's capture of the 155-square-mile demilitarized buffer zone established by the United Nations after the 1973 Mideast war. Israel's move into the buffer zone follows Syrian ...
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UN condemns Israeli occupation of Syrian buffer zone in wake of Assad ouster
The buffer zone between Syria and the Israeli-controlled Golan Heights was created by the United Nations after the 1973 Mideast war. (AP Photo/Matias Delacroix) “Egypt stresses that Israeli ...
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Israeli construction along buffer zone with Syria violates ceasefire, UN says
The United Nations says Israeli construction along a demilitarised buffer zone with Syria has led to “severe violations” of a 50-year-old ceasefire agreement, which risk increasing tensions ...
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Netanyahu says Israeli troops will occupy a buffer zone inside Syria for the foreseeable future
Israel’s capture of the buffer zone, a roughly 400-square-kilometer ... Associated Press writer Edith M. Lederer at the United Nations and Omar Akour in Izraa, Syria, contributed to this ...
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IDF: Buffer zone deployment coordinated with UN, will go on until things are clear in Syria
The deployment is being carried out in coordination with the United Nations Disengagement Observer Force (UNDOF), which is tasked with the buffer zone. UNDOF members are currently staying in their ...
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UN sounds alarm at Israel’s ‘severe violations’ at key buffer zone with Syria
The United Nations has accused Israel of “severe violations” of a 50-year-old agreement with Syria, saying it has engaged in “engineering groundwork activities” that encroach on a key ...
Wall Street Journal5mon
Israeli Troops Enter Syrian Buffer Zone as Rebels Advance
Israel's military entered the buffer zone between Israel and Syria in ... personnel it didn't identify entered the area. The United Nations is responsible for patrolling the zone.
The New York Times5mon
Israel Enters Demilitarized Buffer Zone in the Golan Heights
Benjamin Netanyahu, the Israeli prime minister, said he had ordered troops to “take over” the zone between his country ... who attacked a United Nations observation post near Hader in Syria.
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Netanyahu says Israeli troops will occupy a buffer zone inside Syria for the foreseeable future
The buffer zone between Syria and the Israeli-controlled Golan Heights was created by the United Nations after the 1973 Mideast war. A U.N. force of about 1,100 troops has patrolled the area since ...