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

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 ...

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 ...

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.

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

SWEIDA, Syria — Nervous Druze militiamen at checkpoints in southern Syria craned their necks in recent days to look inside stopped vehicles, sizing up drivers and bracing for new threats.

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 ...

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

The backdrop is a black stone house in Sweida province, the homeland of southern Syria's Druze religious minority. Sweida, ...

Syrian Druze spiritual leader Sheikh Hikmat al-Hijri on Thursday condemned what he described as a "genocidal campaign" ...