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

Israel carried out air strikes across Syria last week including on the Presidential Palace in Damascus and engaged with ...

The Druze community in the Middle East is split between Lebanon, Syria, Israel, and a small community in Jordan. They have played an influential role across these countries – in Syria, one of the ...

Druze residents near Syria’s capital are resisting a demand by the government to hand in their light weapons, saying ...

Clashes last week pitted Sunni fighters against armed Druze residents of the town of Jaramana southeast of Damascus, later spreading to another district near the capital and then south to the ...

Druze Near Damascus Resist Demand to Turn in Arms as Tensions Boil By Yamam Al Shaar and Firas Makdesi JARAMANA, Syria (Reuters) - Druze residents near Syria's capital are resisting a demand by ...

ERBIL, Kurdistan Region - A Druze elder from the Jaramana suburb south of Damascus said on Monday that external “unchecked” armed groups are threatening the area while locals have secured the ...

The recent clashes began on April 28 in the town of Jaramana, on the outskirts of Damascus, before spreading to nearby Ashrafiyat Sahnaya and the southern governorate of Sweida, where many of the ...

As Syria’s new leadership steps up its diplomatic outreach to rejoin the global community, it is simultaneously grappling with deepening sectarian unrest at home — a test of its ability to govern a ...