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Golan Heights, Arabic Al-Jawlān, Hilly area, southwestern Syria. It overlooks the upper Jordan River valley; its maximum elevation is 7,297 ft (2,224 m). It was occupied by the Israeli army during the Six-Day War of 1967. After the Arab-Israeli war of 1973, a UN buffer zone was established between Syrians and Israelis in the heights. In 1981 Israel unilaterally annexed the part of the Golan that it held. Talks between the Israel and Syria occurred intermittently from the 1990s. In 2019 the United States recognized Israel’s annexation of the Golan Heights.

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