It would take four full days for the government to restore a semblance of order on the coast. In the meantime, the death toll ...

A recent surge in violence against Syria’s Druze religious community has reportedly seen over 100 people killed since the ...

The Druze community in the Middle East is split between Lebanon, Syria, Israel, and a small community in Jordan. They have ...

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

The new government has pledged to unify Syria after overthrowing the Assad dictatorship. One of its biggest challenges is persistent sectarian violence. By Christina Goldbaum Ben Hubbard Raja ...

At the Sayyida Zeinab Shrine, rituals of faith unfold: worshippers kneel in prayer, visitors raise their palms skyward or ...

Israel launched airstrikes on Syria amid a spreading wave of sectarian violence in areas dominated by the Druse minority. Dozens of people have been killed in two days of clashes. By Euan Ward ...

The escalating sectarian violence in Syria has come to pose a major challenge to the country’s stability, unity, and ability to recover from its 14-year internal crisis ...

Israel said it carried out a strike in Syria against "an extremist group" that attacked members of the Druze community, ...

Hundreds of Syrian refugees have sought refuge in northern Lebanon following violent unrest. They inhabit makeshift shelters ...

Sectarian violence has erupted again in Syria, raising fresh doubt on the ability of the new Islamist rulers to control armed ...