Pained and angered by deadly clashes between Islamist and Druze gunmen in Syria in recent weeks, leaders of Israel's own ...

Five months after its liberation from the police state of Bashar al-Assad, Syria sometimes looks like a country in civil war.

Israel has used attacks on religious minority by forces loyal to Syria's new government to justify strikes across the border ...

As an al-Qaida fighter in Iraq, he was detained by the American military. As the leader of a U.S.-designated terror group ...

Hijri has harshly criticized Syria’s government for what he called an “unjustified genocidal attack” during deadly sectarian ...

Four days of clashes between pro-government gunmen and members of a minority sect in Syria have left nearly 100 people dead ...

Nawaf Nasr, 78, sits at home in Syria's Sweida district and recalls details of what he says was his past life before he died ...

The religious leader denied the recording was in his voice, and an investigation by Syria’s Ministry of the Interior has concurred. But it mattered little, as fighting between local armed Druze ...

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

In Syria’s large Druze minority, a belief in reincarnation binds the community together. NPR’s Jane Arraf reports. This article was originally published on WBUR.org.

The Israeli/Palestinian conflict did not have to be the way it has been. And perhaps this means it does not have to be this ...

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