Druze residents near Syria's capital are resisting a demand by the Islamist-led government to hand in their light weapons, ...

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

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

Israel struck a target near the presidential palace in the Syrian capital after the Druze community in both countries called ...

Israel’s latest strike near Damascus sparks sharp Turkish condemnation, revealing a deeper regional power struggle over Syria ...

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

For decades, the Druze in Israel have shed blood alongside the Jewish majority and formed a brotherly covenant. But now that ...

Israel's stated commitment to defending the Syrian Druze is, by the admission of some of its leaders, consistent with a ...

But many officials in Syria’s Druze community have expressed an openness to working with the new authority in Damascus and denied Israel’s overtures that claim to protect them. Sources told Al ...

The situation between the two sides has been tense for weeks and a smaller clash broke out in March in a suburb of Damascus. The Druze religious sec t is a minority group that began as a 10th ...

Clashes last week pitted Sunni fighters against armed Druze residents of the town of Jaramana southeast of Damascus, later spreading to another district near the capital and then south to the ...