GAZA Palestinian medics and rescue teams retrieved seven more bodies from the rubble in the Gaza Strip, pushing the overall ...

Villagers say they worry that incursions into border areas of Syria by Israel’s military could turn into a prolonged ...

U.N. special envoy for Syria Geir Pedersen has said that formation of a “new inclusive government” in Damascus by March 1 ...

Peatlands around the globe hold more carbon than all the world’s forests, and yet new research reveals a much lower ...

The buffer zone was created following Israel’s occupation of the Golan Heights during the 1967 Six-Day War. Since 1974, UN forces have maintained a presence in the area, ensuring that neither ...

Israel is building military bases in the demilitarised buffer zone with Syria, according to satellite images seen by Al Jazeera’s Sanad verification unit. The images were taken between December ...

The buffer zone includes a dam at a reservoir that supplies ... was built in 1986 by the Syrian government for families displaced from the Golan Heights in previous conflicts with Israel.

The remainder of the Golan Heights remains under Syrian control, with UN forces patrolling the buffer zone since the 1974 agreement. Days after Assad’s fall, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin ...

Syria is also ready to redeploy forces to the Golan in line with a 1974 agreement establishing a buffer zone "provided Israeli forces withdraw immediately", SANA added. Israel sent troops into the ...