the region near the tripoint border with Jordan and Iraq is still under the authority of the Al-Tanf Deconfliction zone, named after the U.S. base established in 2016 amid the Syrian Civil War.
After the ouster of Syria's longtime leader Bashar al-Assad last month, Israel's military has taken up a new post in the ...
In just two weeks, Syrian ... zone. The Golan Heights is a rocky plateau about 60km (40 miles) south-west of Damascus. Israel seized the territory from Syria in the closing stages of the 1967 Six ...
The buffer zone between Syria and the Israeli-controlled Golan Heights was created by the U.N. after the 1973 Mideast war. A U.N. force of about 1,100 troops has patrolled the area since then.