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 ...

Israel has formally annexed east Jerusalem, as well as the Golan Heights captured from Syria. It has occupied the West Bank, home to some 3 million Palestinians, for more than half a century and ...

In 2019, however, the US, in Donald Trump's first term, became the only country in the world to recognise Israel's sovereignty in the Golan Heights – a decision that was met with shock and fury ...