What played out in the Golan Heights last week would have made a great war movie.

Seventy-five Filipino troops serving as United Nations peacekeepers in the Golan, the no-man’s land between Syria and Israel, were surrounded by Syrian rebel fighters, who demanded that they surrender.

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