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

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

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

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 ...

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

A leader of Syria’s Druze minority has condemned attacks against his community after dozens of people were killed in two days of sectarian clashes south of Damascus. Sheikh Hikmat al-Hijri on ...

Members of Syrian security forces patrol after being deployed in the village of Al-Soura al-Kubra, following clashes between Sunni Islamist militants and Druze fighters, in Sweida province ...

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

A war monitor and an activist group say clashes broke out in the Syrian capital between local gunmen belonging to the ...

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

The backdrop is a black stone house in Sweida province, the homeland of southern Syria's Druze religious minority. Sweida, built around a volcanic mountain, has been inhabited for thousands of ...