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Hamas said on Friday it has accepted a proposal from mediators to release one living American-Israeli hostage and the bodies ...

It's the first time in five decades that Druze leaders have crossed from Syria into Israeli-controlled territory to visit ...

Just hours after Islamist rebels ousted longtime Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad in December, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin ...

Dozens of clerics and others from Syria’s minority Druze community crossed into the Israeli-controlled side of the Golan Heights Friday for the first time in ...

A group of around 100 senior figures from Syria's Druze are expected to visit the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights on Friday, members of the community said, in a further sign of Israel's support for the ...

The Golan Heights is home to 24,000 Druze, an Arab minority who practice an offshoot of Islam and also live in Israel, ...

The Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman said on Thursday that Israel's actions in the Golan Heights violate the terms of the 1974 Syria-Israel agreement on the separation of forces. Responding to ...

Israel is considering allowing the entry of Druze communities from Syria to work in the occupied Golan Heights, according to Israeli Defence Minister Israel Katz. The plans were part of a "great ...

Syria's Golan Heights, occupied by Israel since 1967 ... which started immediately after the fall of Assad. "Druze people want to remain in their lands with privacy, but this has become an ...

Israel, he vowed, will defend the Druze in the Syrian side of the Golan Heights. The Druze community is divided ... of his birth name and renamed his army to indicate support for the people of al-Sham ...

About 600 people from across Syria were invited ... a religious minority who live in southern Syria and in Israel’s Golan Heights. Syrian Druze hold up a placard in Arabic reading ‘Sweida ...