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Dec 16 (Reuters) - The Israeli government decided on Sunday to double its population on the occupied Golan Heights ... Syria in the 1967 Six-Day War and annexed it in 1981. After Assad fled ...

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said the move was necessary because a "new front" had opened up on Israel's border with Syria after ... Golan Heights, which Israel seized during the 1967 Six-Day ...

An Israeli APC enters Syria at the ceasefire line with Syria and the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights ... from Syria in the 1967 Six-Day War and annexed it in 1981. After Assad fled Syria on ...

Halevi’s comments to newly enlisted recruits came after Israel deployed ... Mount Hermon in the Golan Heights. Israel seized the area from Syria during the 1967 Six-Day War.

The Israelis captured the Golan Heights in the 1967 Six-Day War, fought between Israel ... the buffer zone was reached after the 1973 Yom Kippur War, which started when Egypt and Syria launched ...

Israel says the move is necessary following the takeover of neighbouring Syria by an Islamist-led rebel alliance.

After his flight on ... WHY IS THE AREA CONTENTIOUS? The Golan Heights were part of Syria until 1967, when Israel captured most of the plateau in the Six-Day War, occupying it and annexing it ...

The Golan Heights is a rocky plateau about 60km (40 miles) south-west of Damascus. Israel seized the Golan from Syria in the closing stages of the 1967 Six-Day ... After more than a year of war ...