Attacks on the Druze by Islamist gunmen backing the new Syrian government have pushed some in the community to welcome ...

Israel's stated commitment to defending the Syrian Druze is, by the admission of some of its leaders, consistent with a ...

Druze residents near Syria's capital are resisting a demand by the Islamist-led government to hand in their light weapons, ...

Nawaf Nasr, 78, sits at home in Syria's Sweida district and recalls details of what he says was his past life before he died ...

Four days of clashes between pro-government gunmen and members of a minority sect in Syria have left nearly 100 people dead ...

Members of Syrian security forces patrol after being deployed in the village of Al-Soura al-Kubra, following clashes between Sunni Islamist militants and Druze fighters, in Sweida province ...

Israel said it carried out a strike in Syria against "an extremist group" that attacked members of the Druze community, ...

A leader of Syria’s Druze minority has condemned attacks against his community after dozens of people were killed in two days of sectarian clashes south of Damascus. Sheikh Hikmat al-Hijri on ...

A war monitor and an activist group say clashes broke out in the Syrian capital between local gunmen belonging to the ...

The backdrop is a black stone house in Sweida province, the homeland of southern Syria's Druze religious minority. Sweida, built around a volcanic mountain, has been inhabited for thousands of ...

Druze fear new sectarian violence if arms handed in Most local fighters agree to join state security forces Some hold back, citing distrust of Islamist-led government Israel has intervened ...