Here, The Independent lays out why Israel considers the Golan Heights so important. It was captured by Israeli forces during the Six-Day War of 1967, a short conflict between Israel and its Arab ...

World leaders mounted a diplomatic effort to dissuade Israel ... war would envelop the region in response to a rocket strike that killed 12 people, including children, in the occupied Golan Heights.

Most other Druze live in Lebanon and Israel and the Golan Heights, a rocky plateau seized from Syria by Israel in the 1967 Mideast war. Israel’s 1981 annexation of the area is recognized only by ...

The weapons discovery was made as Israeli forces were deployed at control points within the buffer zone and ensuring the safety of the civilians living in the Golan Heights. By JERUSALEM POST ...

Footage aired on Israeli Channel 12 showed a large blast in one of the valleys in the Druze town of Majdal Shams, in the Golan Heights, which Israel captured from Syria in the 1967 Mideast war and ...

Following the overthrow of Bashar al-Assad's regime in Damascus, Israel's military advances into Syria have raised alarm.

Israel's defence ministry has said it will allow Druze communities in Syria to enter the occupied Golan Heights for work. The ministry did not give a timeline for when the permits would be issued.

The complexities upon complexities of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict make a peaceful solution very hard, if not highly ...

The sounds of sirens pierced the chilly morning air on Tuesday in the southern Golan Heights after a suspected aerial infiltration was identified for the first time after months of silence.

Israel’s border with Syria had remained largely unchanged since the 1967 war, when it occupied and later annexed the Golan Heights from Syria in a move rejected by most of the international ...