The Golan Heights, situated in the southwest corner of Syria and bordering Israel, Lebanon and Jordan, is a 1,000 square mile rocky plateau around 40 miles (60 kilometres) from Damascus, although it ...

Israel took advantage of the fall of the Assad regime to expand the area of southern Syria it has occupied since 1967. With ...

An Israeli APC enters Syria at the ceasefire line with Syria and the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights, as seen from the Golan Heights (Reuters) -The Israeli government decided on Sunday to double its ...

After its victory, Israel occupied the West Bank, Gaza Strip and Golan Heights. Israeli soldiers in a trench during the Six-Day War. By June 10, 1967, when the fighting was halted, Israel controlled ...

TEL AVIV, Oct 28 (Reuters) - The Golan Heights Winery, which grows its grapes on the plateau that Israel captured from Syria in a 1967 war, will display its bottles on shelves in Dubai this week, the ...

The sudden fall of the Assad government to an Islamist-led coalition of rebels underscores that there is some serious unfinished business between Israel and Syria. The issue of control of the Golan ...

Ein Zivan, Golan Heights — A dry mountain wind whipped through a cluster of Israeli flags at the entrance of a kibbutz in the Israeli-annexed Golan Heights, where the tranquility belies the tumultuous ...

EIN ZIVAN, Golan Heights — A dry mountain wind whipped through a cluster of Israeli flags at the entrance of a kibbutz in the Israeli-annexed Golan Heights, where the tranquility belies the tumultuous ...