The spiritual leader of the Israeli Druze, Sheikh Mowafaq Tarif, met Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to press for military ...

Last December, after more than a decade of fighting, forces opposing President Bashar al-Assad ousted him from power. Some ...

Five months after its liberation from the police state of Bashar al-Assad, Syria sometimes looks like a country in civil war.

For the 150,000-strong member Druze community, attacks against their brethren across the border cause concern and a ...

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Israel has used attacks on religious minority by forces loyal to Syria's new government to justify strikes across the border ...

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 ...

In Syria’s large Druze minority, a belief in reincarnation binds the community together. NPR’s Jane Arraf reports. This article was originally published on WBUR.org.

Pained by deadly clashes between Islamist and Druze gunmen in Syria in recent weeks, leaders of Israel's own Druze minority ...

The clashes are the worst between forces loyal to the government and Druze fighters since the fall of President Bashar Assad in early December whose family ruled Syria with an iron grip for more ...

Druze minority straddles Lebanon, Syria and Israel Over 100 Druze killed in clashes with Islamists in Syria Israeli Druze demand IDF protect their Syrian brothers Israel sees Druze as allies in ...

The fighting in Druze areas of Syria started on April 29 and left more than 100 Druze dead, mostly gunmen, according to the UK-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, which also reported 32 ...