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

Israel has used attacks on religious minority by forces loyal to Syria's new government to justify strikes across the border ...

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

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

Israel's stated commitment to defending the Syrian Druze is, by the admission of some of its leaders, consistent with a ...

But many officials in Syria’s Druze community have expressed an openness to working with the new authority in Damascus and denied Israel’s overtures that claim to protect them. Sources told Al ...

Israel on Friday said it launched air strikes near the presidential palace in Damascus and threatened further military action ...

He was badly injured. Heaviest hit was Suwara al-Kubra, a usually quiet village along the main road to Damascus, where Druze and Christian residents nurture fruit trees and vines in the gardens.

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

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 ...

Israel struck a target near the presidential palace in the Syrian capital after the Druze community in both countries called ...

Israel has since then attacked hundreds of Syrian military sites and on Friday announced its "fighter jets struck adjacent to ...