After the ouster of Syria's longtime leader Bashar al-Assad last month, Israel's military has taken up a new post in the demilitarized buffer zone created in Syria after the 1973 Arab-Israeli war.
Assad, Syrians living in the Quneitra governorate in the Golan Heights looked on as Israeli troops suddenly drove into their villages. The near-daily
QUNEITRA PROVINCE, GOLAN HEIGHTS, Syria — The Golan Heights ... swept into the Syrian capital Damascus in early December, toppling Bashar al-Assad's regime, Ramadan was uprooted and displaced.