When rebels toppled the Bashar al-Assad regime in Syria ten months ago, the country's citizenry hoped for an end to decades of dictatorship and sectarian violence. The sweeping atrocities in Suwayda, ...

Volunteers from the Druze religious sect in Israel have built a lifeline of aid to help fellow Druze in Syria. The effort now shapes survival, power and the future of Syria’s Druze.

NAWA, Syria (Reuters) -As sectarian violence swept through Syria's southern Sweida province in July, the Sbeih family say they were taken by Druze gunmen and held in a school with other Bedouin tribe ...

Israel is paying salaries for many of the roughly 3,000 Druze militia fighters, two senior Druze figures and a Western intelligence source said on Tuesday. Reuters was not able to independently ...

BEIRUT — Syrian government fighters entered the city of Sweida over the summer in an apparent bid to assert control over the enclave of the Druze minority that for years had operated in semiautonomy.