For the 150,000-strong member Druze community, attacks against their brethren across the border cause concern and a ...

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

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

The Druze are a prominent religious community of more than a million people spread mainly across Syria, Lebanon and Israel, ...

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 ...

Hijri has harshly criticized Syria’s government for what he called an “unjustified genocidal attack” during deadly sectarian ...

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

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.

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

Yasser Arafat lied when he “accepted” the Oslo Accords. Mahmoud Abbas lied when he said he would end “Pay for Slay,” and the ...

Sectarian violence has erupted again in Syria, raising fresh doubt on the ability of the new Islamist rulers to control armed ...

Instability has plagued Syria in the past two weeks after fighting broke out in two of Damascus’s suburbs and a southern governorate, drawing in government forces and non-state armed factions.