The Golan Heights is a rocky plateau in southwestern Syria, about 60km (40 miles) south of Damascus. It is bordered by the Yarmouk river in the south and the Sea of Galilee in the west. The Golan ...

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 ...

This page is no longer being updated.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 ...

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.

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, ...

Locals in Syria's Golan Heights told NPR that they fear a recent Israeli military operation in the area could be a land grab. Israel says the move is necessary to secure its borders.

The Golan Heights is a piece of high ground in one of the most conflict-prone places on Earth. That’s made it a focus of global dispute since Israel seized the plateau from Syria in the 1967 ...

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 ...