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Sectarian violence in recent weeks in Syria's Sweida region has left more than 1,000 people dead. Druze in the ...
Fighting has erupted in the Druze-majority Sweida province of southern Syria, violating a ceasefire deal reached last month ...
Sectarian violence in southern Syria is shattering hopes for a united country among the country's Druze minority ...
With Israel criticized for violating Syrian sovereignty, Syrian President Ahmad al-Sharaa has denied his government’s role in ...
Clashes that shook southern Syria this week have killed hundreds of people, including civilians, and drawn in an array of ...
Damascus’s new rulers may be unwilling or unable to protect Syria’s minorities, and calls have arisen to carve sovereign ...
Three Syrian security personnel and a member of a Druze militia were killed in renewed clashes in the southern province of ...
Syria’s military entered a stronghold for the Druze community in the country’s south on Tuesday, the government said, reigniting fears of attacks against minorities and triggering renewed Israeli ...
Relatives and officials say a Syrian-American man of the Druze religious minority is among dozens of civilians killed in ...
Violence in Syria pitting the Islamist-led government against members of the Druze community has put a spotlight on the small ...
A scholar of religious minorities and the Middle East explains the historical persecution and marginalization of the Alawite and Druze communities.