More than 1,100 UN peacekeepers are currently deployed in the Golan, a demilitarised zone along the Israel-Syria border at ...

Israel must set conditions for an eventual withdrawal from its buffer zone in Syria, and if it stays longer than six months, ...

Israel and Syria have fought multiple conflicts, but for decades, the border separating the two has been largely quiet. They last went to war in 1973, when Syria and Egypt attacked Israel on Yom ...

An Israeli tank on a damaged road in Madinat al-Baath, Syria, on Jan. 23. (Salwan Georges/The Washington Post) The new construction, visible in satellite imagery, suggests an extended presence.

Mount Hermon, a huge cluster of snowcapped mountain peaks towering above the Syria-Lebanon border, overlooks the Damascus countryside as well as the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights, which Israel ...

The demilitarized zone between Israel and Syria was established as part of a 1974 ceasefire agreement. It includes the highest peak of Mount Hermon, the tallest point on the eastern Mediterranean ...

The push into territory previously controlled by Syria comes at a time when Israel is operating beyond its borders on multiple fronts to keep its enemies at a distance, following Hamas’s Oct. 7 ...