Druze clerics take part in a gathering of minority religious leaders in Beirut, Lebanon, Friday, July 18, 2025, as they speak about sectarian clashes between Druze factions, Sunni Muslim Bedouin clans ...

Terrified minorities under attack for weeks in Syria by the country’s new Islamist regime are wary of a fragile ceasefire — despite President Trump’s pronouncement this week calling for the groups to ...

Israel ramped up airstrikes in Syria on Wednesday following reports that members of the Druze religious minority were being massacred by militant Islamists, shining a spotlight on a unique community ...

The White House is attributing the outbreak of violence in the Middle East between the Syrian government and Israel to a "misunderstanding" over ethnic grudges. Secretary of State Marco Rubio blamed ...

A Syrian-American who was taking care of his ill father was among the eight Druze men kidnapped from their family home and executed in the middle of the street in Syria last week, harrowing video ...

(NewsNation) — Syria’s government and a minority religious sect announced a new ceasefire Wednesday, capping days of violent clashes between the country’s military forces and some of its Druze ...

The fighters in military-style uniforms pointed their rifles at the three unarmed men and ordered them out onto a sunny balcony, before barking at them to pause. “One minute. You want to film them?” ...

Various Druze factions and groups in Sweida in southern Syria have combined their forces into a “national guard” that will operate under Druze leader Hikmat al-Hijri, a report on August 23 suggested.

BEIRUT — Hundreds of people demonstrated in Syria’s southern city of Sweida and elsewhere Saturday to demand the right to self-determination for the Druze minority, in the largest protests to take ...

Looking out over the Druze military cemetery in Shefa-Amr, Israel, an Arab city in northern Israel, one sees row after row of graves — each a silent testament to extraordinary courage. Buried there ...

MAZRAA, Syria (AP) — Syrian government forces prepared to return to a southern region Friday after renewed clashes broke out between Druze armed groups and members of Bedouin clans, leaving tens of ...

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.