STORY: Violence in southern Syria has put a spotlight on a small but influential minority, the Druze.:: Who are the Druze?The ...

The conflict had drawn airstrikes against Syrian forces by neighboring Israel in defense of the Druze before a truce halted ...

Israel has been carrying out strikes on Syria since the fall of the Assad regime last December. This week saw a major ...

The Druze, an ethnoreligious minority in the Levant region, began as a 10th-century offshoot of Ismailism, a branch of Shiite ...

Israeli military responds to protect Syrian Druze from Islamist militants as local Druze citizens cross the border to aid their brethren, prompting concerns from Israeli officials.

Clashes between Druze militias and Sunni Arab tribes have continued and grown after Syrian Army forces withdrew from the ...

Violence again swept the Druze-majority city of Suwayda early Friday morning as the UK-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights reports that nearly 600 people have been killed since fighting erupted ...

A rocket attack on a Druze village in the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights that killed 11 people, including children, has brought attention to the secretive religious and ethnic group. The Druze ...

The Druze - a community with its own unique practices and beliefs, whose faith began as an off-shoot of Shia Islam - have historically occupied a precarious position in Syria's political order.

A fresh wave of deadly sectarian violence has rocked Syria, putting into focus the country's fragile security landscape as ...