Before the eruption of sectarian violence in southern Syria, Saber Abou Ras taught medical sciences at a university in the ...

The main hospital in the southern Syrian city of Sweida is overwhelmed with trauma patients and working without adequate ...

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

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

As hundreds pushed through the security fence separating the Israeli Golan Heights from Syria, locals fleetingly reunited ...

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

"Trust must exist first and foremost," Syrian Democratic Council representative to the U.S. Sinam Mohamad told Newsweek.

Clashes broke out last week that were sparked by tit-for-tat kidnappings between armed Bedouin clans and fighters with the ...

The U.S. State Department has called for an immediate investigation into the recent death of a U.S. citizen in Syria, and ...

Assad’s fall, deadly sectarian clashes in southwestern Syria have exposed one of the biggest challenges to the country’s postwar recovery — the new leader’s failure to forge national unity.

But deadly clashes in the southern province of Sweida last week between rival Druze and Bedouin factions, which drew in government forces, brutally exposed the fragility of the transition. Hundreds ...

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.