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

The Druze are a prominent religious community of more than a million people spread mainly across Syria, Lebanon and Israel, ...

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

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 ...

Few communities embody the geopolitical fragility of the region more acutely than my community, the Druze. Scattered across four deeply interconnected yet frequently conflicting states ...

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

DAMASCUS, Syria — Druze spiritual leader Sheikh Hikmat Al-Hijri on Thursday harshly criticized Syria’s government for what he ...

A war monitor and an activist group say clashes broke out in the Syrian capital between local gunmen belonging to the ...

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 ...

Sectarian violence has erupted again in Syria, raising fresh doubt on the ability of the new Islamist rulers to control armed ...

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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 ...