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

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

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

Israel said it carried out a strike in Syria against "an extremist group" that attacked members of the Druze community, ...

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

The backdrop is a black stone house in Sweida province, the homeland of southern Syria's Druze religious minority. Sweida, ...

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.

Dozens of members of the Druze community were killed in clashes with pro-government forces near Syria's southern border with Israel last week, according to the UK-based war monitoring service ...

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.

A war monitor and an activist group say clashes broke out in the Syrian capital between local gunmen belonging to the minority Druze sect and pro-government fighters.