The Druze religious sect is an offshoot of Ismailism, a branch of Shiite Islam. About half of the roughly one million Druze ...

The interior ministry said clashes in Sweida city had been halted and the area cleared of Bedouin tribal fighters following the deployment.

Defense Minister Israel Katz said southern Syria would remain a demilitarized zone despite Israel allegedly allowing Syrian ...

Israel's strikes in defense of the minority's communities across the border attest to a deepening bond, according to locals in the Druze village of Majdal Shams.

Kan news reports that some 2,000 Druze in Israel have signed onto a document declaring their intention to join the fighting in Syria if attacks against Druze by Bedouin tribesmen ...

Dr Talat Amer, a surgeon at Sweida National Hospital in southern Syria, worked tirelessly for three days as bombs fell and ...

The Islamist-led government said Bedouin fighters left the predominantly Druze city and the U.S. stepped up calls for an end ...

Fierce fighting broke out Friday in Syria’s Druze-majority Sweida region as armed Bedouin tribal factions, backed by Syria’s Islamist-led interim government, clashed with local Druze fighters at the ...

Historically, the Druze are an Arabic-speaking ethno-religious minority who are spread across Syria, Lebanon, Israel and the ...

The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said the clashes since last week had killed at least 940 people. Read more at ...

Suwayda, the Druze community is facing what its members have described as an "ethnic cleansing campaign" amidst a rapidly ...

Sectarian clashes escalated in Syria's predominantly Druze region of Sweida on Saturday, with machine-gun fire and mortar shelling ringing out after days of bloodshed as the Islamist-led government ...