A deadly strike on a playing field in the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights has sharply escalated fears of a new war in the region. Israel says the Lebanon-based Hezbollah militant group was behind ...
After the 1967 war, when Israel took the Golan from Syria, the Druze remained. Israelis moved to the Golan and built a dozen small communities on the heights. Many Golan Druze have a complex ...
Israel says it struck Hezbollah rocket launchers in Lebanon overnight, while the militant group fired 150 missiles over the border.
It raised fears of a broader regional war. Israel blamed Hezbollah for the strike in the Israeli-controlled Golan Heights, but Hezbollah rushed to deny any role. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin ...
Additionally, 90,830 have been wounded since the start of the war. Israeli Prime Minister ... located in the occupied Golan Heights, which Israel says has been launched from Lebanon and killed ...
Israel captured the Golan Heights from Syria in the 1967 Mideast war and later annexed it, saying it needs the strategic plateau for its security. The United States is the only country to ...
In the 1967 Middle East war, Israel captured about 1,200 km sq (about 460 square miles) of the Golan Heights, from which Syria had attacked it. Israel annexed the area in 1981, in a move which ...