Israeli ground forces advanced beyond the demilitarized zone on the Israel-Syria border over the weekend, marking their first overt entry into Syrian territory since the 1973 October War, according to two Israeli officials speaking anonymously to discuss sensitive developments.

After the fall of the Assad regime in Syria, Israeli Defense Forces have launched aerial strikes near Damascus that they say are targeting stockpiles of chemical weapons they're worried could fall into the wrong hands.

CNN’s Jeremy Diamond visits the Golan Heights buffer zone near the Israel-Syria border after Israel’s military seized the area for the first time since the 1974 line of control agreement.