A prominent Alawite spiritual leader in Syria on Saturday urged members of his religious minority to boycott celebrations ...

On November 29, members of Suwayda’s National Guard, a militia affiliated with Druze spiritual leader Hikmat al Hijri, ...

Syrian president accuses Israel of fabricating threats to justify militarism and divert attention from Gaza massacres.

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

Matni, Maher Falhout were arrested by Hikmat al-Hijri’s forces in Suwayda, according to local media - Anadolu Ajansı ...

BEIRUT (AP) — Clashes between government forces and members of a minority sect in Syria have drawn intervention by Israel and once again raised fears of a breakdown in the country’s fragile postwar ...

MAJDAL SHAMS, Golan Heights (AP) — Dozens of clerics and others from Syria’s minority Druze community crossed into the Israeli-controlled side of the Golan Heights Friday for the first time in decades ...

When Americans think of the Middle East, we often focus on the headlines: wars between states, clashes between Sunnis and Shias, or the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Beneath those familiar stories ...

A Syrian Druze cleric was killed by outlaw groups in the southern Sweida province on Tuesday, according to local media.

Indiscriminate violence in Syria that led to the death of 745 civilians over the last three days has observers wondering if Syria’s newly installed president, the former leader of a designated ...

MAALOULA, Syria — Church bells echoed across the rocky slopes of this ancient Syrian town on a cold Sunday morning. But few families remained. Maaloula is one of the world's few places where residents ...

A United Nations Security Council delegation has visited Syria for the first time since the council's founding in 1945.