“It’s strategically extremely important. There is no substitute for mountains.” The summit of Mount Hermon lies in Syria, in a buffer zone that separated Israeli and Syrian forces for fifty ...

QUNEITRA PROVINCE, GOLAN HEIGHTS, Syria — The Golan Heights is a rocky terrain dotted with olive trees and grazing cows, and ...

Israeli troops who seized strategic ground in southern Syria after the fall of Bashar al-Assad will remain on the summit of ...

Their destination was a mountain in the Masyaf area in western Syria, roughly 125 miles from Israel’s northern border. The choppers carrying the troops from the Shaldag special forces unit flew at an ...

the IDF entered the buffer zone on the Golan Heights separating Israel and Syria and liberated the highest peak of Mount Hermon, raising the blue-and-white banner over the tallest mountain in ...