After the ouster of Syria's longtime leader Bashar al-Assad last month, Israel's military has taken up a new post in the ...
The IDF’s Merkava series of main battle tanks, widely considered to be of the most lethal armored vehicles in service across the globe, has remained the centerpiece of Israel’s armored corps for more ...
Defence minister says forces will remain in positions seized after collapse of Assad’s regime ‘for an unlimited time’ ...
An Israeli tank unit forms for a counterattack against Syria on the Golan Heights, Oct. 8, 1973. In 1973, Syria tried to reclaim the Golan Heights in a war it waged on Israel with Egypt.
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 ...
"The Israeli tanks and bulldozers rolled in, and there was gunfire on the homes," Ramadan says. Laundry drying on a fence along the border between Syria and the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights.