Israel also held negotiations with Syria and agreed to withdraw from the places the captured in Syria, but the negotiations failed and Israel stayed in the Golan Heights. Egypt and Israel kept their negotiations, and in 1979 they signed the Egypt–Israel Peace Treaty. The treaty brought peace between Israel and Egypt, Gradual retreat of Israeli forces took place and all Sinai peninsula returned to Egyptian hands in 1982. The treaty still holds to this day. No real military victory was ever won; it was a military "stalemate".