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Pained and angered by deadly clashes between Islamist and Druze gunmen in Syria in recent weeks, leaders of Israel's own ...
Five months after its liberation from the police state of Bashar al-Assad, Syria sometimes looks like a country in civil war.
Israel has used attacks on religious minority by forces loyal to Syria's new government to justify strikes across the border ...
Four days of clashes between pro-government gunmen and members of a minority sect in Syria have left nearly 100 people dead ...
The clashes come as Syria’s new rulers are trying to establish their authority, and contending with well-armed militias and ...
Hijri has harshly criticized Syria’s government for what he called an “unjustified genocidal attack” during deadly sectarian ...
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 ...
The religious leader denied the recording was in his voice, and an investigation by Syria’s Ministry of the Interior has concurred. But it mattered little, as fighting between local armed Druze ...
The Syrian government rejected calls for foreign intervention after a Druze leader slammed Damascus over the latest bout of ...
In Syria’s large Druze minority, a belief in reincarnation binds the community together. NPR’s Jane Arraf reports. This article was originally published on WBUR.org.
Sectarian violence has erupted again in Syria, raising fresh doubt on the ability of the new Islamist rulers to control armed ...
Israel said it carried out a strike in Syria against "an extremist group" that attacked members of the Druze community, ...