JORDAN | Friday, 14 June 2013 | Views [1113] | View Larger Image
A victim of the Yom Kippur war of 1973 and pockmarked with thousands of bullet holes, a Syrian mosque lies deserted deep in the Israeli occupied Golan Heights. The area was witness to intense fighting during the war and now lays waste to abandoned tanks and bunkers. To this day, the Golan Heights remains contested territory, with gun shots and artillery fire from the Syrian civil war well within earshot.