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 ...

TRUMP HEIGHTS, Israel — Israelis are lining up in droves to settle down in a burgeoning Golan Heights settlement named after former and soon-to-be-again President Donald Trump. Roughly 50 to 100 ...

At the end of a winding road on a dusty hillside in the Israeli-annexed Golan, the yellow gates of Trump Heights slowly open for cars, passing a golden-lettered sign honouring the US president-elect.

About 50,000 people currently live there, roughly half of them Israeli settlers and the other half Arab Druze, a religious minority spread among Syria, Lebanon, Israel and the Golan Heights.

Since the fall of the al-Assad regime, Israel has attacked Syria to deepen the occupation of the Golan Heights. Israeli soldiers with the national flag stand on an armoured vehicle after crossing ...

Netanyahu approved a plan to expand the number of settlements in the occupied Golan Heights, he said in a statement. "Strengthening the Golan is strengthening the State of Israel, and it is ...

Israel plans to double the numbers of settlers in the occupied Golan Heights in Syria despite repeated calls to withdraw its troops from the land it seized after president Bashar al-Assad's ouster.

Following the overthrow of Bashar al-Assad's regime in Damascus, Israel's military advances into Syria have raised alarm. Initially, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu had stated that the advances were ...