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 ...

The Golan Heights is a rocky plateau in the southwestern corner of Syria, bordering Israel, Lebanon and Jordan. Israel formally annexed the region in 1981, although the United Nations has refused ...

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.

The Golan Heights belonged to Syria since 1944 but were seized by Israel after the Six-Day War in 1967. During the Yom Kippur War in 1973, Syria tried to regain control over the area but failed.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

The Golan Heights, which had belonged to Syria since 1944, were seized by Israel during the 1967 Six-Day War. In 1981, the Israeli parliament passed a law unilaterally declaring sovereignty over ...

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.

“What they are trying to do is improve the Israeli military’s capabilities to counter any attack that might come to the Golan Heights ... But he also said Israel may later decide those ...

It is, he says, “a war of rebirth ... broke with the rest of the Western world in recognizing Israel’s annexation of the Golan Heights, which it seized from Syria in 1967.