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

The fighting and the Israeli attacks add to the difficulties faced by Syria’s new government – which only came to power after ...

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

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

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

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

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.

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

Yasser Arafat lied when he “accepted” the Oslo Accords. Mahmoud Abbas lied when he said he would end “Pay for Slay,” and the ...

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 ...

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