Influential Druze cleric Sheikh Hikmat al-Hijri, in a separate statement, rejected any deal with what he called the "so-called government," vowing to continue the armed resistance.

JERUSALEM, July 15 (Xinhua) -- Dozens of Druze citizens of Israel crossed from the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights into southern Syria on Tuesday afternoon, Israeli sources said, amid deadly clashes ...

He says, "I wish the Lebanese people could come together for weddings and happy occasions, but unfortunately we come together on days like this, to bury people." Martyr's Square was a sea of red, ...