While strategic considerations were still in play, the heart of the decision lay in defending the extended family of Israel’s own Druze—a gesture shaped as much by kinship as by security.

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

SWEIDA, Syria: Druze fighters pushed out rival armed factions from Syria’s southern city of Sweida on Saturday (Jul 19), a ...

Syria's armed Bedouin clans on Sunday announced that they had withdrawn from the Druze-majority city of Sweida following over a week of clashes and a US-brokered ceasefire, as humanitarian aid convoys ...

A massacre perpetrated on July 13, in which hundreds of Druze Syrians were reportedly murdered, has shaken Majdal Shams, a picturesque town that’s home to most of the Golan’s 20,000-odd Druze ...

Syrian government troops have cleared Bedouin fighters from the city of Sweida and declared an end to deadly clashes that ...

The Druze, once low-profile, are now at the center of Syria’s chaos, with rising violence, Israeli strikes, and deepening ...

Badly needed humanitarian supplies started to reach Syria's Druze-majority Sweida province on Sunday, a day after a ceasefire ...

So it's a messy situation. Israel has to decide, with help from the United States, what it wants to do next with this ...

Spiraling violence in southern Syria has turned global attention to the Druze, an ethno-religious minority of around 1 ...

After violence broke out in Druze-majority Sweida, 1,000 Israeli Druze burst through the fence into Syria. Most have returned ...

Hundreds of Druze from Israel pushed across the border in solidarity with their Syrian cousins they feared were under attack.