In 1982 an uprising in the city of Hama by the Muslim Brotherhood, a Sunni Islamist group originating in Egypt, challenged ...

As part of its provocative and extreme policies towards Middle Eastern countries, Israel published a so-called “historical” ...

Intelligence officials in Syria’s new de facto government say they have thwarted a plan by the Islamic State group to set off ...

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s order for Israeli troops to “take over” a buffer zone with Syria upended decades of ...

A new analysis of the 6,000-year-old stone circle known as Rujm el-Hiri (also Gilgal Refaim) in Golan Heights suggests that ...

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.

The contested city of Jerusalem was to be administered by the U.N. This ... and the Sinai Peninsula from Egypt, and the Golan Heights from Syria. Initially celebrated by Israel, the lightning ...

The Israeli government’s immediate priority is the safety of its citizens, particularly those living near the Golan Heights. This involves neutralizing advanced Syrian military capabilities ...

Israel has taken over a buffer zone between Israel and Syria and says its forces will not withdraw until it is sure that residents of the Golan Heights border area will be secure. Half of these ...

Israel seized control of much of the Golan Heights, a plateau in southern Syria, in the Six-Day War ... views it as Israeli-controlled and administered. The International Court of Justice has ...

Meanwhile, Israel has occupied some areas of the demilitarized buffer zone near the Golan Heights in the ... autonomous, self-administered area in northeastern Syria, as they did in northern ...

The village, on the western edge of Syria's southern Daraa province, is near the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights, but outside of a buffer zone in the Golan established by a 1974 ceasefire agreement ...