Al-Sharaa: Occupied Golan Heights to ‘remain Syrian territory’
Syrian President Ahmed al-Sharaa demanded the withdrawal of Israeli forces from Syrian territory.
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Syrian President Ahmed al-Sharaa demanded the withdrawal of Israeli forces from Syrian territory.
Syrian President Ahmed al-Sharaa insisted at the UN Wednesday that the Golan Heights region will remain Syrian after Colombia last month recognized Israeli sovereignty over the strategically important territory.
Syria's President Ahmed al-Sharaa told the UN Wednesday that the contested Golan Heights region would "remain Syrian" despite ongoing military occupation by Israel. The Syrian leader also used his second turn at the UN rostrum to denounce repeated Israeli strikes on his country.
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Syria condemned Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's entry into its territory after he visited Israeli troops stationed in southern Syria on Wednesday, calling the move "provocative and a blatant violation" of its sovereignty. In southern Syria, Israeli forces have been stationed in a "security zone" since the fall of longtime ruler Bashar al-Assad in December 2024. They occupy what was previously a buffer zone patrolled by the United Nations that had separated Israeli and Syrian forces in the Israeli-occupied Golan since 1974.
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