“The Druze in the Golan Heights have been scared to take citizenship because they’re scared that if the region goes back to Syria, they will be hated not just for being Druze but for being Israeli ...

After the ouster of Syria's longtime leader Bashar al-Assad last month, Israel's military has taken up a new post in the demilitarized buffer zone created in Syria after the 1973 Arab-Israeli war.

Rujm el-Hiri, ancient stone structure in the Golan Heights, Israel. Credit: אסף.צ / CC BY-SA 3.0 A recent study has questioned the long-held belief that Rujm el-Hiri, the ancient Golan stone circle in ...

Earlier this month, Syrian leader Bashar Assad was ousted after nearly 25 years in power. Israel seized the Golan Heights from Syria in the 1967 Mideast war.

Israel has occupied most of Golan, strategic plateau, since 1967 and annexed it in 1981 Druze women walk near the fence leading into the UN-patrolled buffer zone, which separates Israeli and ...

The Golan Heights is an area of 1,800 square kilometres on the Israel-Syria border. Israel captured most of the strategic plateau from Syria in the 1967 Six-Day War, annexing it in 1981.

Why is Israel so keen on Golan Heights? Around 23,000 Druze people, who largely identify as Arabs and didn’t flee the land during the 1967 war, currently live alongside 30 Israeli settlements in ...

The Golan Heights are part of Syria, as recognised by the United Nations. However, Israel occupied the Golan during the 1967 War and currently controls 1,200sq km (463sq miles) of the western part ...

In 2021, Israel vowed to double the number of Jewish settlers in the Golan Heights within five years, approving 7,300 housing units in the area to bring an additional 23,000 settlers.

Israel's controversial plan to double its population on the occupied Golan Heights is raising tensions, as the country strengthens its presence in the strategically crucial region. Prime Minister ...

Israel has also deployed troops and tanks across the border of the Golan Heights into Syria, positioning them in an area that had been considered a demilitarised buffer zone since the 1970s.

Israel's "demographic development" plan to increase settler numbers only applies to the area of the Golan Heights that Israel seized during the Six Day War in 1967 and later annexed in 1981 and ...