Damascus’s new rulers may be unwilling or unable to protect Syria’s minorities, and calls have arisen to carve sovereign ...

Many of us are heading to the beach to bask in the sun and unwind as part of our summer vacations. Research has shown that ...

Activists in Suwayda who were once open to the Damascus government weigh in on how their views have changed following a wave ...

Seven months of relative calm in Syria came to a bloody end last week, when what began as local skirmishes escalated into the ...

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

In July 2025, clashes between the Druze religious minority and Sunni Arabs backed by government-affiliated forces led to ...

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

Discover the hidden world of the Druze — a secretive and ancient faith caught at the crossroads of the brutal Syria-Israel ...

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

The Druze religious sect, enmeshed in an outbreak of tit-for-tat violence in Syria, began roughly 1,000 years ago as an ...

Druze in Israel − not including occupied Palestinian territory and the occupied Golan Heights − serve in the military, ...

About one million Druze live across the Middle East, mainly in Syria, Lebanon, Jordan and Israel. In Syria, the largest Druze ...