Its strategic location on the Mediterranean ... with its Arab neighbours, Israel captured the Golan Heights from Syria, as well as other land in the region (see map 5). The Assads increasingly ...

Netanyahu said that Israel would occupy the summit of Mount Hermon, which is within the buffer zone on the Syria-Lebanon border, and at 9,232 feet is the highest peak in the eastern Mediterranean ...

Lebanon is a small country with a population of about 5.5 million people, which borders Syria to the north and east, Israel ...