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

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For days, Sunni tribal warriors surrounded the Druze capital in southern Syria. Fighters drove around in off-road vehicles, ...

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

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

This is not a military operation. It is targeted persecution of a religious and ethnic minority. The Druze are being hunted ...

Khnifess said that Israel’s intervention in Syria came "too late and was insufficient." "The State of Israel must act to ...

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 ...

As the transitional government fails to bridge divides, other regions may turn inwards to defend their own interests ...

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.

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