The 1974 disengagement deal between Syria and Israel - in pictures

Geneva, May 31, 1974, and the signing of a disengagement agreement by Israel and Syria to end hostilities. Maj Gen Herzl Shafir, third left, is the Israeli signatory. All photos: Getty Images
Syrian army soldiers conduct artillery training exercises at the border with Israel on June 3, 1974
Richard Nixon, left, and Henry Kissinger, right, then US president and secretary of state, respectively, flank Syrian president Hafez Al Assad in Damascus, June 16, 1974
Qunaitra, south-western Syria. UN disengagement forces take up positions vacated by the first Israeli withdrawal from occupied Syrian lands in more than seven years, on June 14, 1974
The remnants of Syrian tanks struck by the Israeli air force are left to rust by the roadside, after fighting in October 1973
The treaty between Israel and Syria took hold on May 31, 1974, with an early exchange of prisoners of war in Tel Aviv. Here, the seriously injured are led out first
December 21, 1973. The US delegation attending the Geneva Conference in Switzerland to discuss the Israel-Syria situation. Front, left to right: Ellsworth Bunker, diplomat; Henry Kissinger; and Joseph Sisco, US head of Middle Eastern affairs
Hafez Al Assad with his family at their residence in Damascus, June 4, 1974. His son Bashar would succeed him as Syrian president in 2000