Syria’s military entered a stronghold for the Druze minority in the country’s south on Tuesday to “pursue outlaw groups,” the ...

Druse militiamen have been fighting with Bedouins in the Sweida Province, and Syrian government forces and the Israeli ...

Syria’s Defense Ministry blamed militias in Sweida for violating a cease-fire agreement that had been reached Tuesday, ...

Syria’s foreign ministry says a number of soldiers and civilians have been killed by coordinated Israeli drone attacks and ...

Assad’s regime was toppled, Charlie Smart, a reporter at The New York Times, traveled to a mass burial site in Syria to ...

Syria has inked an $800 million agreement with DP World to revamp the Tartus port. This move signifies Syria's efforts to ...

Troops locate explosives, rockets at 'key' commando bases in operation aimed at keeping arms from being smuggled to Lebanon; ...

Israel has launched a series of airstrikes on convoys of government forces since the clashes erupted, saying that it is acting to protect the Druze.

Washington and Jerusalem have kept a watchful eye on Damascus ever since the overthrow of the Bashar al-Assad regime by Sunni Muslim rebels in December. Of greatest concern has been the level of ...

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The Druze are a small, secretive ethnoreligious community that emerged in the early 11th century in Egypt. They broke away from mainstream Islam during the rule of the Fatimid Caliph al-Hakim bi-Amr ...