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.

In 1982 an uprising in the city of Hama by the Muslim Brotherhood, a Sunni Islamist group originating in Egypt, challenged Assad’s rule. Tens of thousands of people were killed by the government’s ...

Map: Where is Syria and ... last few days on military targets in Syria. Israel also says it has temporarily seized control of a demilitarized buffer zone in the Golan Heights, saying the 1974 ...

(CNN) — For more than a decade, Syria’s multi-front civil war had raged ... troops both into and beyond a demilitarized buffer zone established in 1974. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin ...

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s order for Israeli troops to “take over” a buffer zone with Syria upended decades of ...

Syria’s new government has strongly condemned Israel’s incursions into a U.N.-monitored buffer zone, urging the international community to pressure Israel into withdrawing ...

The war in Syria has left ... areas of the demilitarized buffer zone near the Golan Heights in the southwest, and has carried out strategic bombings in Syria, partly out of concern that chemical ...

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 ...