Helpless looks like the Druze men on Israeli-controlled Golan Heights hilltop, with their binoculars, cellphones and bags of dusty apples from a nearby orchard for fuel. Today many members of the Druze ethnic and religious minority are cut off from relatives in Syrian villages to the north. They were once affiliated with Al Qaeda and are still in the sights of Syria, Russia and the United States during this ceasefire. In the last days before the ceasefire Monday night, all sides wanted to grab as much of this strategic stretch as possible. (CBC)Some of the Druze men, sad scouts watching all this unfold, stayed on that hilltop until the moment of the ceasefire.

Source: CBC News September 13, 2016 19:30 UTC