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 ...

The Druze community in the Middle East is split between Lebanon, Syria, Israel, and a small community in Jordan. They have ...

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

The clashes come as Syria’s new rulers are trying to establish their authority, and contending with well-armed militias and ...

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 ...

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

Sectarian violence has erupted again in Syria, raising fresh doubt on the ability of the new Islamist rulers to control armed ...

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 ...