WASHINGTON (JTA) — Official U.S. maps now include the Golan Heights as part of Israel. Jason Greenblatt, the top White House Middle East peace negotiator, posted a map Tuesday on his Twitter feed.

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

The Golan Heights was once home to thriving Syrian communities, with its fertile lands and water sources. After the 1967 War, the Golan was occupied by Israel but Syria has never given up its ...

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 ...