evidence: - ^ "Syria: Local Residents Used as Human Shields". Huffingtonpost.com. 26 March 2012. Archived from the original on 27 June 2012. Retrieved 10 April 2012. [...] Afrin was the home to the largest Ezidi minority in Syria. [...] - "the Syrian Golan Heights territory, which Israel has occupied since 1967". Also, "the Golan Heights, a 450-square mile portion of southwestern Syria that Israel occupied during the 1967 Arab-Israeli war." (CRS Issue Brief for Congress: Syria: U.S. Relations and Bilateral Issues Archived 18 September 2018 at the Wayback Machine, Congressional Research Service. 19 January 2006)