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 ...

Israel must set conditions for an eventual withdrawal from its buffer zone in Syria, and if it stays longer than six months, ...

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 ...

More than 1,100 UN peacekeepers are currently deployed in the Golan, a demilitarised zone along the Israel-Syria border at ...

Image Israeli troops on the Syrian side of the buffer zone between Israel and Syria.Credit...Atef Safadi/EPA, via Shutterstock Israel and Syria have fought multiple conflicts, but for decades ...

The Israeli army said the operation was the first of its kind since its forces began their incursions in the ...