Israel hit Damascus with powerful airstrikes on Wednesday, ostensibly to “protect” Syria’s Druze minority which has borne the ...

The White House is attributing the outbreak of violence in the Middle East between the Syrian government and Israel to a ...

Members of Syria's Druze community are searching for loved ones and counting their dead after days of clashes in a southern ...

The Druze, an ethnoreligious minority in the Levant region, began as a 10th-century offshoot of Ismailism, a branch of Shiite ...

Sectarian clashes that shook southern Syria this week have killed hundreds of people, including civilians, and drawn in an ...

Scores of people have been killed in Syria's southern governorate of Suwayda after clashes began between local Sunni Bedouin ...

A rocket attack on a Druze village in the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights that killed 11 people, including children, has brought attention to the secretive religious and ethnic group. Who are the ...

Like a number of other ethnic groups in the Middle East, such as the Kurds, the Druze live in several different countries, separated by borders drawn after the breakup of the Ottoman Empire in the ...

Deadly clashes this week in southern Syria, home to the Druze ethnic group, are putting new pressure on the nascent government as it tries to prevent the country from fragmenting along sectarian ...

Syria's new president pledged to disband all militias in this multi-ethnic, multi-sectarian country after the collapse of the Bashar al-Assad regime last December. So far, with the Druze, those ...

Former senior military and police chiefs are pressing Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to revise a law enshrining the country as a Jewish nation-state to include the Druze, an ethnic minority who ...