Israel has expressed willingness to establish formal ties with Syria and Lebanon, but has firmly declared that the Golan ...

Two days after a rocket slammed into a soccer pitch in the Israel-controlled Golan Heights, killing 12 children, many questions remain about the attack on the Druze town of Majdal Shams ...

This page is no longer being updated. It was last updated on 29 August 2023 The Golan Heights is a rocky plateau in south-western Syria, about 60km (40 miles) south-west of Damascus and covers ...

The Golan Heights is a strategic plateau that Israeli seized from Syria during the Six-Day War in 1967, before formally annexing it in 1981. The hilly landscape, ...

Following is a quick guide to the hilly, 1,200-square-kilometre (460 square-mile) Golan Heights, a fertile and strategic plateau that overlooks Israel's Galilee region as well as Lebanon, ...

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.

Why is Israel so keen on Golan Heights? Around 23,000 Druze people, who largely identify as Arabs and didn’t flee the land during the 1967 war, currently live alongside 30 Israeli settlements in ...

A map showing the Golan Heights region between Syria and Israel and the positions of Israeli forces in the region. Source: Israeli positions in Syria as of Dec. 10, 2024, ...

Tensions between Israel and the Lebanese militant group Hezbollah have reached new heights in the wake of a deadly rocket attack in the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights. The strike on Saturday hit a ...

The Golan Heights were part of Syria until 1967, when Israel captured most of the plateau in the Six-Day War, occupying it and annexing it unilaterally in 1981. That annexation was not recognised ...

The Golan Heights is a rocky plateau in south-western Syria, about 60km (40 miles) south-west of Damascus and covers about 1,000 sq km. It has a political and strategic significance which belies ...

Outside the Golan, some 130,000 Israeli Druze live in the Carmel and Galilee in Israel’s north. In contrast to other minority communities within Israel’s borders, many are fiercely patriotic.