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 ...

Hijri has harshly criticized Syria’s government for what he called an “unjustified genocidal attack” during deadly sectarian ...

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

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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 ...

"We want to want to be sure that he is not a terrorist anymore," senior Israeli official told Newsweek of Syria's Ahmad al-Sharaa.

The religious leader denied the recording was in his voice, and an investigation by Syria’s Ministry of the Interior has concurred. But it mattered little, as fighting between local armed Druze ...

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 ...