QUNEITRA PROVINCE, GOLAN HEIGHTS, Syria — The Golan Heights is a rocky terrain dotted with olive trees and grazing cows, and it's enclosed by snow-capped mountains. For much of his life ...
(Bloomberg) -- The Golan Heights is a piece of high ground in one of the most conflict-prone places on Earth. That’s made it ...
The Golan Heights, situated in the southwest corner of Syria and bordering Israel, Lebanon and Jordan, is a 1,000 square mile rocky plateau around 40 miles (60 kilometres) from Damascus ...
The construction project is enormous. Al-Hurriyah’s last house on the Syrian Golan Heights is now located just 500 metres from the Israeli border. Before, it was two kilometres away. Israel ...
“What they are trying to do is improve the Israeli military’s capabilities to counter any attack that might come to the Golan Heights,” said Citrinowicz, who is now a senior researcher at ...
The Israeli Knesset has approved plans to increase the number of settlers in the Golan Heights, territory that was seized from Syria in 1967. The announcement comes after the dramatic downfall ...
The UN peacekeeping chief on Friday said the Israeli army’s presence in the demilitarized Golan Heights zone is creating challenges for the mission and called for its withdrawal. Noting the ...