When the leader of Syria shook hands with U.S. President Donald Trump, it was a striking moment for a man who was an al-Qaida ...

The Israeli/Palestinian conflict did not have to be the way it has been. And perhaps this means it does not have to be this ...

Five months after its liberation from the police state of Bashar al-Assad, Syria sometimes looks like a country in civil war.

Who is Ahmad al-Sharaa? - Ahmad al-Sharaa, the militant leader who led the stunning insurgency that toppled Syria’s President ...

Pained and angered by deadly clashes between Islamist and Druze gunmen in Syria in recent weeks, leaders of Israel's own ...

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.

A recent surge in violence against Syria’s Druze religious community has reportedly seen over 100 people killed since the ...

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

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

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 ...