U.S. President Donald Trump said on Thursday that the United States should back Israeli sovereignty over the Golan Heights, seized from Syria in 1967.

Here’s what you need to know about the Golan Heights, a disputed land that sits between Israel and Syria.

The United States will recognize Israeli control of the Golan Height. President Trump announced his intent to

JERUSALEM (AP) — President Donald Trump abruptly declared Thursday the U.S. will recognize Israel's sovereignty over the disputed Golan Heights, a major shift in American policy that gives Israeli...

U.S. recognition of the Golan Heights is “a dream come true,” Blue and White co-leader Yair Lapid said

U.S. President Donald Trump said on Thursday it was time to back Israeli sovereignty over the Golan Heights that Israel seized from Syria in 1967, marking a dramatic shift in U.S. policy and giving a boost to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in the m…

Friday: Scott Morrison says he intended to ‘lower fears about Islam not elevate them’. Plus: The US recognises Israel’s sovereignty over Golan Heights

US President Donald Trump says that it’s time to recognise Israel’s sovereignty over the contested region of Golan Heights.

The increasingly stark contrast between the parties on Israel came into view on Thursday as leading 2020 Democrats, under pressure from the Left, announced they were skipping the annual American Israel Public Affairs Committee's policy conference, while Presi…

For Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, three weeks before elections, the timing is impeccable.

U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo paid a solemn visit Thursday to Jerusalem's Western Wall along with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in an apparent sign of support for Israel's control of the contested city. His visit was likely to further infuri…

US President Donald Trump says that it’s time to recognise Israel’s sovereignty over the contested region of Golan Heights.

President Trump has recognized Israeli sovereignty over areas of the Golan Heights it currently controls. In doing so, Trump effectively formalizes something that everyone already knew. Namely, that the Golan Heights, which Israel seized following a 1967 Syri…

U.S. President Donald Trump vowed to recognize Israel’s rule over the Golan Heights region on Twitter Thursday afternoon.

President Donald Trump on Thursday overturned longstanding US policy regarding the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights, announcing "it is time" for the US to "fully recognize Israel's sovereignty" over the region.

Israel seized the Golan Heights from Syria in the 1967 Six-Day War.

President Donald Trump announced on Twitter on Thursday that the U.S. is recognizing Israel's sovereignty over the Golan Heights.

US President Donald Trump has said it is time to back Israeli sovereignty over the Golan Heights, territory Israel seized from Syria in the 1967 Middle East War.

President Trump on Thursday said the U.S. will recognize Israeli control of the disputed Golan Heights territory, delivering a diplomatic win for prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu ahead of a tough reelection race.

"After 52 years it is time for the United States to fully recognize Israel’s Sovereignty over the Golan Heights," Trump tweets.

RT @zei_squirrel: the US is illegally occupying parts of Syria and stealing their oil as Israel illegally annexed the Golan Heights from Sy…

RT @zei_squirrel: the US is illegally occupying parts of Syria and stealing their oil as Israel illegally annexed the Golan Heights from Sy…

RT @zei_squirrel: the US is illegally occupying parts of Syria and stealing their oil as Israel illegally annexed the Golan Heights from Sy…

RT @BDSAustria: Golan people: "We don't want the project frozen […] our demand is clear – the cancellation of the project which aims to squ…

RT @sewella: The little village of Ghajar has been a sore point between Israel and Lebanon for years, split in two by the border between Le…

RT @zei_squirrel: the US is illegally occupying parts of Syria and stealing their oil as Israel illegally annexed the Golan Heights from Sy…

RT @zei_squirrel: the US is illegally occupying parts of Syria and stealing their oil as Israel illegally annexed the Golan Heights from Sy…

RT @zei_squirrel: @TomTomClub510 you support the illegal occupation of Syria (https://t.co/zHWFXvR22N) and have never spoken a single word…

RT @zei_squirrel: the US is illegally occupying parts of Syria and stealing their oil as Israel illegally annexed the Golan Heights from Sy…

The little village of Ghajar has been a sore point between Israel and Lebanon for years, split in two by the border between Lebanon and the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights. But after a long period of calm, the dispute has begun to heat up again. https://t.co/mcVNRwlqt2

RT @zei_squirrel: the US is illegally occupying parts of Syria and stealing their oil as Israel illegally annexed the Golan Heights from Sy…

RT @zei_squirrel: the US is illegally occupying parts of Syria and stealing their oil as Israel illegally annexed the Golan Heights from Sy…

RT @hahussain: I can write volumes about this picture from the Golan Heights village of Ghajar, under #Israel control since its victory ove…

RT @hahussain: I can write volumes about this picture from the Golan Heights village of Ghajar, under #Israel control since its victory ove…

RT @KarenGentry99: #Caesarea #Philippi at the foot of Mount Hermon in the Golan Heights https://t.co/Ouu8waF6DH This is the place Jesus sai…

RT @hahussain: I can write volumes about this picture from the Golan Heights village of Ghajar, under #Israel control since its victory ove…

RT @hahussain: I can write volumes about this picture from the Golan Heights village of Ghajar, under #Israel control since its victory ove…

RT @Freedom33453: @Tibou33969029 Israel illegally captured and occupied the Syrian Golan Heights in 1967. Syria will get its land back one…

RT @NimerSultany: Pro-democracy or pro-occupation, apartheid and annexation? Israeli anti-government protestors, with a map that includes…

RT @rk70534: @LabourList @LouiseEllman @_LFI Apartheid: Only Jewish citizens of Israel can live in Israel's illegal colonies in Palestine's…

Netanyahu halts turbine construction in Golan Heights amid Druze protest - Israel News - The Jerusalem Post https://t.co/8P4X1y4ztr

RT @RichardGrahamUK: @JakeWSimons @JewishChron Yes an article in the Jewish Chronicle criticised the EAPB Bill. Clause 3,7 - which makes an…

"Only 70 votes against legislation that defined the #WestBank, Gaza and the Golan Heights as parts of #Israel, and made it illegal for a local councillor to criticise, not only any foreign state without central government permission, but Israel ever." https://t.co/6MXzRibRKL

And yet Golan Heights and West Bank are also apart of this bill and UK foreign policy does not recognise them as Israel. The pro-Israel lobby is extremely strong in Westminster. MPs vote to ban public bodies from boycotting Israel and other countries https://t.co/tY024BlAm9

RT @Jerusalem_Post: Prime Minister Netanyahu postponed the Golan Heights wind turbine construction for a minimum period of one month due to…

RT @BabakTaghvaee1: #Syria Arab Air Defence Force launched multiple surface-to-air missiles at the #IsraeliAirForce fighter jets which cond…

Golan heights Ramat Trump! https://t.co/1tTo2Ulj9p

RT @_1pop09iq: I noticed an Israeli retweeted this. Why are they critical of the French colonization of Algeria but not the Jewish coloni…

RT @MEO_Analysis: Israel destroys a minefiled in the occupied Golan Heights in order to install wind turbines

RT @MintPressNews: The US government announced on Monday that it would stop funding scientific and technological research in Israeli instit…

RT @Sprinter99880: For the second day, clashes between the people of occupied Golan heights and the Israeli forces https://t.co/Uw2yHjNYx8

RT @MintPressNews: The US government announced on Monday that it would stop funding scientific and technological research in Israeli instit…