Syrian and Israeli officials spoke about de-escalating the situation in Syria during U.S.-mediated talks in Paris on Thursday, U.S. envoy Tom Barrack said.

Amid sectarian violence in Syria in which hundreds of Druze were killed, Israel struck Damascus and issued a warning to the ...

The recent sectarian violence shows that the Syrian government and its Turkish backers share a dangerous vision of a ...

Barrack says goal of Paris meeting was 'de-escalation, and we accomplished precisely that'; Dermer said to represent Israel ...

A scholar of religious minorities and the Middle East explains the historical persecution and marginalization of the Alawite ...

Recent violence between Druze and Bedouins is a reminder of how elusive the goal of a cohesive Syria remains, and how easily ...

The Druze live in pockets across the Middle East, and Israeli members of the community want Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu ...

Even if it does not, the incident seems a grim turning-point in Syria’s transition. It has reinforced fears that the state is incapable of protecting minority groups. It may also have ripple effects ...

In July 2025, clashes between the Druze religious minority and Sunni Arabs backed by government-affiliated forces led to ...

He might be Turkiye’s man, America’s man, the Gulf states’ man, or Israel’s man, but he is definitely not Syria’s man.

The Syrian Emergency Task Force, which works to help build democracy in Syria and played a significant role in nudging the ...

Barrack has repeatedly stressed that the US was not dictating Syria’s form of government. He has cast his diplomacy as a test ...