The new leadership vowed to disband all militias. But the fiercely independent Druze have made no agreement, and say they're ...

Sheikh Mowafaq Ṭarīf, is the qadi, or judge, the spiritual leader of the Druze people living within the state of Israel and ...

Druze spiritual leader Sheikh Hikmat al-Hijri has taken center stage in Suwayda since Assad fell last year, as the top figure ...

In a challenge to Syria's new government, an influential religious minority rejects calls to integrate its militias.

Syria is now a geopolitical battleground between Türkiye and Israel, and neither has any real respect for Syrian sovereignty, ...

SWEIDA, Syria — The road from Damascus to Sweida winds through outcrops of black volcanic rock, past rainfed vineyards and olive groves and up to the Mountain of the Druze — a natural fortress ...

JEROME DREVON is Senior Analyst in Jihad and Modern Conflict at the International Crisis Group. He is the author of From ...

Sweida, SANA-Dr. Mustafa al-Bakour, Governor of Sweida, accompanied by a delegation including directors of official ...

Near front lines where they once battled each other, former fighters in Lebanon's civil war now gather to bear the same message, half a century after the devastating conflict erupted: ...

Are Israel and Turkey set on an inevitable collision course? Turkey’s President Recep Tayepp Erdogan and the Islamist AKP ...