Here, The Independent lays out why Israel considers the Golan Heights so important. It was captured by Israeli forces during the Six-Day War of 1967, a short conflict between Israel and its Arab ...

The sweeping views of a Galilee no longer vulnerable to shelling from atop the Golan Heights. Not to mention Naomi Shemer’s anthem “Jerusalem of Gold,” reissued after the Six-Day War with a ...

Dozens of clerics and others from Syria’s minority Druze community have crossed into the Israeli-controlled side of the Golan Heights Friday for the first time in decades.

World leaders mounted a diplomatic effort to dissuade Israel from increasing its attacks on Lebanon amid fears that an all-out war would envelop ... in the occupied Golan Heights.