The Times reports: Israel is pushing the United States and Russia to guarantee a buffer zone in southern Syria where Hezbollah and other Iranian-backed militias will not be allowed to operate, sources in the Middle East have told The Times.
The Israelis have been present on the sidelines of talks in Amman between the Americans and the Russians to negotiate the future of southern Syria.
Defence sources confirmed that Binyamin Netanyahu, the Israeli prime minister, had raised the issue of a buffer zone in talks with both President Trump and President Putin. It would extend more than 30 miles east of the Golan Heights, well past the city of Deraa, which is the direct subject of the Russian-US talks. The zone would touch upon the town of Suweida, which is in government hands and is home to a Druze community — as is the Golan Heights, formerly Syrian territory now occupied by Israel, which forms the frontier.
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