Israel captured the Golan Heights from Syria in the 1967 Mideast war and later annexed it, saying it needs the strategic plateau for its security. The United States is the only country to ...
A deadly strike on a playing field in the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights has sharply escalated fears of a new war in the region. Israel says the Lebanon-based Hezbollah militant group was behind ...
Israel says that halting Hezbollah’s attacks in the north in order to allow its residents to return is now an official war ...
A war monitor said an Israeli strike Thursday in the Syrian-controlled Golan Heights killed two people working with Lebanon's Hezbollah, days after major raids elsewhere in the country.
In the 1967 Middle East war, Israel captured about 1,200 km sq (about 460 square miles) of the Golan Heights, from which Syria had attacked it. Israel annexed the area in 1981, in a move which ...
After the 1967 war, when Israel took the Golan from Syria, the Druze remained. Israelis moved to the Golan and built a dozen small communities on the heights. Many Golan Druze have a complex ...
Lebanon's Hezbollah said on Wednesday it attacked Israeli artillery positions with rockets in the first cross-border attack ...