Israeli forces have taken control of the former demilitarized border zone between Syria and Israel. While the new Syrian ...

And in Alawite mountain villages, locals complained of kidnappings or, in the case of Fahil, extrajudicial killings during operations led by Syria’s new security forces, though it remains ...

On a recent day, village elders, the province's Roman ... by Muslim empires left much of the population in mountain strongholds in Syria and Lebanon, with smaller populations in Israel and Jordan.

“Syria’s new leaders promised to break with ... taking shelter in remote mountain villages, the Russian Hmeimim airbase near Latakia city, and across the border in Lebanon.

They marked the burial place of the inhabitants of al-Sanobar killed during the massacres perpetrated in this Alawite village on the Syrian coast ... fled further up the mountain.

Ezzedine said foreign jihadists set up near the family olive groves, outside their mountain village of Ain al-Sharkia in the coastal ... her frail silhouette framed in a black coat. The Syrian ...

There are several Syrian villages in the buffer zone area between ... "Mount Hermon marks the northern end of the Heights. The mountain provides excellent means to observe the entire region ...

The top of the mountain was surrounded by an approximately two-meter-deep trench to provide cover for the defending Syrian forces ... to defend Jewish border villages. Israel has been digging ...

On a recent day, village elders, the province’s Roman ... by Muslim empires left much of the population in mountain strongholds in Syria and Lebanon, with smaller populations in Israel and ...

Ezzedine said foreign jihadists set up near the family olive groves, outside their mountain village of Ain al-Sharkia ... OMAR HAJ KADOUR / AFP The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights war monitor ...