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, although it ...

Trump described the decision making process with casual bravado, saying he asked then United States Ambassador to Israel ...

Tensions between Israel and the Lebanese militant group Hezbollah have reached new heights in the wake of a deadly rocket attack in the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights. The strike on Saturday hit a ...

When Uri Barak came to the Golan Heights 22 years ago, the rugged plateau represented the new Zionist frontier. Barak helped found Katzrin, a lone town among the kibbutzim on this 10-mile-wide strip ...

Sun Lei, China’s deputy permanent representative to the UN, emphasized that Syria’s sovereignty, independence, unity, and ...

UNITED NATIONS, Dec. 29 (Xinhua) -- The UN Security Council on Monday unanimously adopted a resolution to extend the mandate of the UN peacekeeping force in the Golan Heights for six months, until ...

Syrian government newspaper features a map showing only the Quneitra district, which Israeli forces entered after the regime ...

Analysts have argued that President Donald Trump's Thursday comments about the Golan Heights could set a dangerous precedent with regard to Russia's stance on Crimea, even if Trump's comments are not ...

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced Tuesday that he will name a community in the contested Golan Heights region after President Trump. Since Israel captured the Golan Heights in 1967 ...

Israel said on Sunday that it intends to double the population of the contested area of the Golan Heights in the coming years, drawing the ire of the Syrian government. Israeli Prime Minister Naftali ...