Israel says it's protecting Syria's Druze minority, but what if that's only part of the story? As airstrikes rain down on Damascus and fighting flares again in southern Syria, new questions are being ...

Syria's government misread how Israel would respond to its troops deploying to the country's south this week, encouraged by U ...

At the center of a crisis in Syria are the Druze — a secretive religious minority that long carved out a precarious identity ...

The situation in Syria aggravated on July 13 when clashes between Arab tribal militias and Druze self-defense groups broke out in the heavily Druze-populated Sweida governorate ...

Violence again swept the Druze-majority city of Suwayda early Friday morning as the UK-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights reports that nearly 600 people have been killed since fighting erupted ...

"If Israel feels that a certain leader...is an evident threat to its national security, it will operate," a former Israeli ...

The Druze originated in the Middle East, and are primarily found in Lebanon, Syria, and Israel. With roughly 1.5 million Druze in the world, the U.S. is believed to have the third largest population.

Israel launched rare strikes in Damascus on Wednesday in a campaign it said was aimed at defending the Druze community after ...

After a massacre perpetrated by Syrian government forces in a Druze city, the IDF launched airstrikes on behalf of its own ...

Sectarian clashes in Southern Syria have shattered expectations of a speedy peace process between Jerusalem and Damascus.

Hundreds of Druze from Israel pushed across the border in solidarity with their Syrian cousins they feared were under attack. Many then met relatives they had never seen before.

In Syria, Druze fighters have clashed both with neighbouring Bedouin tribes and with forces loyal to the Islamist government, ...