Golan Heights

A legal expert in Israel has said that the country's soldiers "broke international law" by firing at unarmed protesters at the weekend. A large number of Palestinians crossed the...

The Israeli Knesset Committee for Immigration, Absorption and Diaspora Affairs convened an extraordinary session on Wednesday, January 11 to address the phenomenon of racial discrimination against Israelis of Ethiopian...

Spokesman of the Israeli army, Avichay Adraee, said on Monday that "a developed security barrier" in the southern Golan Heights near the Israeli-Syrian border is now nearly completed. The...

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has announced that his country is to build an electrified fence on the occupied Syrian Golan Heights. The aim, he claims, is to prevent...

On Thursday, Damascus condemned Israel's intentions to drill for oil in the Golan Heights – Syrian territory it occupied in 1967, and labelled the action an "illegal and a...

Israel has revealed that it will use the advanced Tamuz "smart" missile in any future offensive against the people of the Gaza Strip. The previously-top secret weapon was used...

The Israeli daily newspaper, Yediot Ahronot, reported on Monday that Israel has sent a secret message to the Syrian President Bashar Al-Assad, as part of efforts to ease tensions...

The eleven martyrs in Maroun el-Ras in southern Lebanon and the four in the occupied Golan Heights on May 15, 2011, were enough to turn the "Return to Palestine...

Israeli newspaper, Maariv, yesterday reported Martin Nesirky, a UN spokesman, as saying that the organization have decided to withdraw their international observation forces from the Golan Heights, in light...

Israeli forces responded on Monday night to missile fire they claim originated from the Syrian side of the Golan Heights. No casualties have been reported, a spokesman for the...

Israel announced on Monday that a missile fired from Syria landed in the occupied Golan Heights near an Israeli military patrol. No injuries were sustained. This follows incidents last...

The Syrian army said that it has destroyed an Israeli vehicle that crossed the ceasefire line in the Golan Heights into the Syrian territories. The Israeli army responded with...

Israel has decided to re-arm and train teams of illegal settlers in the occupied Syrian Golan Heights. Hebrew media sources claim that the decision was made in the context...

A leading Middle East commentator has claimed that the proximity of Quneitra to the border with Israel makes the battle for the town of great strategic importance for the...

Syrian regime forces have retaken Quneitra Crossing in the Golan Heights after rebel forces seized control of it early on Thursday morning. Israeli radio reported that rebel forces had...

The United Nations Mideast envoy, Robert Serry, warned that if the ongoing civil war in Syria moved to the Golan Heights to involve Israel, this could jeopardize the 1974...

Israel has deployed additional army staff in the occupied Golan Heights after a group of Syrians infiltrated a work site near to the newly built electric fence along the...

Israel has completed a new "security fence" along its frontier with Syria on the occupied Golan Heights. The old fence has been replaced by a hi-tech version, the construction...

Statements by Syrian Foreign Ministry spokesman Jihad Makdissi that Palestinian refugees in Syria are guests "who lack manners", when considered with those of Buthaina Shaaban, a presidential adviser, who...

Things have become clearer and there are indications that an Arab-American (Israeli) agreement regarding the Syrian issue has begun to manifest. What is important to us is the focus...