And now Israel says it’s going to expand its settlements in the Golan Heights. What would that look like? Well, there are about 30,000 settlers. And to expand and double them, as Prime Minister ...

Israel — Israelis are lining up in droves to settle down in a burgeoning Golan Heights settlement named after former and soon-to-be-again President Donald Trump. Roughly 50 to 100 residents ...

(Heidi Levine for The Washington Post). 3 min The Israeli government on Sunday approved a plan to expand settlements on the occupied Golan Heights, saying it was acting “in light of the war and ...

Israel and Syria have been enemies for decades, fighting in conflicts including the 1967 Six-Day War, when Israel captured parts of the Golan Heights and quickly established dozens of settlements ...

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remote settlement in the central Golan Heights. During his first term, Trump became the first and only foreign leader to recognize Israel’s control of the Golan, which it seized from Syria in ...

Israel has over the past decades built dozens of settlements in the Golan Heights in defiance of international calls for the regime to stop its illegal construction activities. Israel is to ...

Druze of the Golan Heights share the territory with around 25,000 Jewish Israelis, spread across more than 30 settlements. Last year, the UN Human Rights Council sounded alarms over Israel’s ...