Religious minorities in Syria face persecution under the new Islamist government, highlighting the critical importance of ...

Sectarian clashes escalated in Syria’s predominantly Druze region of Sweida as the country’s new Islamist regime struggled to implement a ceasefire after days of bloodshed. Shelling and firing were ...

The Druze, a religious sect with roots in Ismailism, have faced violence in Syria. Their practices are secretive, with no ...

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

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.

And Israeli-backed American organization in Gaza says 20 Palestinians died in a stampede at a food distribution center.

Israeli Druze are watching their government's pressure campaign in Syria. Israel says recent airstrikes inside Syria are to protect the Druze religious minority there from sectarian violence.

Pained and angered by deadly clashes between Islamist and Druze gunmen in Syria in recent weeks, leaders of Israel's own Druze minority say the Israeli military was right to intervene to defend ...

Israel says its recent strikes and incursions in Syria are to protect the Druze religious group. Some in the community welcome it, but some say they're being used to further Israel's political goals.