Israeli troops are advancing up the Syrian side of the border with Lebanon and had come within 25 kilometres of Damascus, two sources said.
Israel carried out a wave of heavy airstrikes across Syria as its troops advanced deeper into the country, a Syrian opposition war monitor said on Wednesday , and the Israeli defence minister announced that his forces had destroyed Syria’s navy.
Speaking at a navy base in Haifa, Katz said the army will create “defence zone free of weapons and terrorist threats in southern Syria, without a permanent Israeli presence, in order to prevent terrorism in Syria from taking root.” Outgoing officials met for the first time on Tuesday with al-Bashir, who told reporters that the transitional period would last until the beginning of March.
In the immediate aftermath of Assad’s fall, Israeli forces moved into a roughly 400-square-kilometre buffer zone inside Syria that was established after the 1973 Mideast war, a move it said was taken to prevent attacks on its citizens.
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