The Golan Heights are a strategically important rocky plateau, about 60 kilometres long and 25 kilometres wide. It was captured by Israel in 1967 and annexed in 1981. However, this was not ...

TASS/. Israel intends to maintain its military presence in a buffer zone in the Golan Heights until it receives security guarantees, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s office said in a statement.

“Israeli military forces have launched an attack in the buffer zone over the fence in order to strengthen defense of the Golan,” the Golan Regional Council said, warning that sounds of ...

MAJDAL SHAMS, Golan Heights (AP) — The four sisters gathered by the side of the road, craning their necks to peer far beyond the razor wire-reinforced fence snaking across the mountain.

After the fall of the Bashar al-Assad regime in December, Israel expanded its occupation of the Syrian Golan Heights by seizing the demilitarized buffer zone, a move that violated the 1974 ...

Israel's seizure of the Golan Heights split families apart. Five of the six Safadi sisters and their parents live in Majdal Shams, a Druze town next to the buffer zone created between the Israeli ...

A Syrian mayor told AFP he had meetings with Israeli officers as the military conducted incursions in his village inside a Golan Heights buffer zone, saying they had demanded locals relinquish their ...

During an investigation into Israeli military activity in the demilitarised zone between the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights and Syria’s Quneitra province, the FRANCE 24 Observers team has ...

TASS/. Four Russian military police posts have been placed in front of the Bravo line along the demilitarized zone on the Golan Heights and another two will be added in the near future ...