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

The rise of extremist forces in Syria under the new regime of Ahmed al-Sharaa poses a direct threat to regional stability and ...

On a hilltop overlooking the Sea of Galilee in Kfar Hittim, a steady flow of Druze pilgrims queue to pray at the shrine to their most revered prophet, Shuaib. For the first time in more than 75 ...

The sectarian violence involving Islamist factions, security forces and Druze gunmen is another sign of the fragile security ...

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

Instability has plagued Syria in the past two weeks after fighting broke out in two of Damascus’s suburbs and a southern governorate, drawing in government forces and non-state armed factions.

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

The minority are members of the Druze religious group. They live on both sides of the Israel-Syria border. NPR's Hadeel Al-Shalchi joins me now from Haifa - that's in the north of Israel. Hi, Hadeel.

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 ...

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

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 ...