The Latest Breaking News from Golan

Twice-daily hiking trips for civilians in Golan buffer zone recently seized by Israel sold out almost immediately

Dozens of Syrian Druze clerics crossed the armistice line on the Golan Heights into Israel on Friday for their community's first pilgrimage to a revered shrine since Israel's creation in 1948.

Syrian dictator says he left country on evening of 8 December in first comments since his regime was toppled by rebel offensive

Benjamin Netanyahu says Israel will ‘hold onto it, cause it to blossom and settle in it’

The Israeli government approved on Sunday a plan to increase the population of the annexed Golan Heights, while insisting it had no intention of confronting Syria after seizing a UN-monitored buffer zone.

Move comes days after rebel groups toppled Syrian leader al-Assad, weeks before Trump becomes US president again.

On the high rocky plateau, the fall of Bashar al-Assad has sown complicated and contradictory emotions

Israel's bombing of Syrian military assets and its entry into the UN-patrolled buffer zone on the Golan Heights show it fears the worst from the end of the Assad clan's rule, analysts told AFP. "The Israeli government... is operating on a worst-case scenario with little to no nuance," said Yossi…

Israel entered the buffer zone in the Golan Heights hours after Bashar al-Assad’s Syrian regime crumbled