Tag: Israel
What is the Golan Heights and why is the territory so important to Israel and Syria?
The Golan Heights, situated in the southwest corner of Syria and bordering Israel, Lebanon and Jordan, is a 1,000 square mile rocky plateau...
A diminished Hezbollah is made even weaker by the toppling of Assad in Syria
BEIRUT (AP) — A severely hobbled Hezbollah was in no position to help defend former Syrian President Bashar Assad, a longtime ally, from...
Why Israel captured Syria’s tallest mountain just hours after Assad fell
Israel wasted no time after Bashar al-Assad’s fall to bomb all the Syrian military assets it wanted to keep out of the rebels’...
The US is striking targets across Syria, and it isn't the only one dropping bombs in this uncertain moment
American warplanes pounded Syria with airstrikes as the Assad regime fell on Sunday.They hit dozens of targets in support of the anti-ISIS mission,...
Israel strikes Syria 480 times and seizes territory as Netanyahu pledges to change face of the Middle East
The collapse of the Assad regime has prompted a punishing military response from Israel, which has launched airstrikes at military targets across Syria...
Syria – latest: Russia scrabbles to secure bases after Assad overthrow as Damascus prison tunnels searched
The Assad regime’s brutal half-century-long grip on Syria has come to an end, in a stunning defeat by opposition insurgents who seized control...