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Five months after its liberation from the police state of Bashar al-Assad, Syria sometimes looks like a country in civil war.
Pained and angered by deadly clashes between Islamist and Druze gunmen in Syria in recent weeks, leaders of Israel's own ...
Israel’s latest strike near Damascus sparks sharp Turkish condemnation, revealing a deeper regional power struggle over Syria ...
Israel has used attacks on religious minority by forces loyal to Syria's new government to justify strikes across the border ...
He was badly injured. Heaviest hit was Suwara al-Kubra, a usually quiet village along the main road to Damascus, where Druze and Christian residents nurture fruit trees and vines in the gardens.
Sharaa, earlier known as Abu Mohammed al Joulani, had been imprisoned at Abu Ghraib as a member of the Iraqi ISIS faction.
But many officials in Syria’s Druze community have expressed an openness to working with the new authority in Damascus and denied Israel’s overtures that claim to protect them. Sources told Al ...
For the 150,000-strong member Druze community, attacks against their brethren across the border cause concern and a ...
"We want to want to be sure that he is not a terrorist anymore," senior Israeli official told Newsweek of Syria's Ahmad al-Sharaa.
Israel's stated commitment to defending the Syrian Druze is, by the admission of some of its leaders, consistent with a ...
On a hilltop overlooking the Sea of Galilee in Kfar Hittim, a steady flow of Druze pilgrims queue to pray at the shrine to their most revered prophet, Shuaib. For the first time in more than 75 ...
Still, dismantling the punishing sanctions regime will take some time. Repealing the most restrictive will take an act of ...