Druze residents near Syria's capital are resisting a demand by the Islamist-led government to hand in their light weapons, ...

Attacks on the Druze by Islamist gunmen backing the new Syrian government have pushed some in the community to welcome ...

Israel's stated commitment to defending the Syrian Druze is, by the admission of some of its leaders, consistent with a ...

The Druze community in the Middle East is split between Lebanon, Syria, Israel, and a small community in Jordan. They have played an influential role across these countries – in Syria, one of the ...

Clashes in Syria's capital over Prophet Mohammed criticism lead to violence against Druze community, highlighting religious ...

On a hilltop overlooking the Sea of Galilee in Kfar Hittim, a steady flow of Druze pilgrims queue to pray at the shrine to their most revered prophet, Shuaib. For the first time in more than 75 ...

Syria cannot hope to rebuild itself if it fails in preventing sectarian tensions from erupting into wide-scale violence.

Clashes last week pitted Sunni fighters against armed Druze residents of the town of Jaramana southeast of Damascus, later spreading to another district near the capital and then south to the ...

Last week, in just two days of sectarian clashes in Jaramana and Sahnaya, in the Damascus area and southern Syria, approximately 90 Druze people were killed. Sheikh Hikmat al-Hijri, the spiritual ...