A complicated mess has erupted in Syria after government troops who entered Sweida were bombed and forced to withdraw when ...

Nearly 80,000 people have been displaced by sectarian violence in southern Syria that began last week, the UN’s migration ...

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

Fighting resumed in earnest in southern Syria after a massive army of Bedouin tribes launched a new offensive.

Several days of bitter sectarian fighting in the south of Syria has brought the fledgling government in Damascus dangerously ...

As alarming sectarian violence swept through Syria in the third week of July, Christian communities in the region experienced ...

One elderly man had been shot in the head in his living room. Another in his bedroom. The body of a woman lay in the street.

Israel’s latest airstrikes in Syria are as much about preventing regime consolidation as they are about protecting the Druze ...

The conflict drew airstrikes against Syrian forces by neighboring Israel in defense of the Druze minority before most of the ...

One woman tells the BBC she cowered in her home waiting for gunmen to enter and "decide whether we should live or die".

Father Toni Butros, Greek Catholic leader in Sweida, declares in a video statement: “We have not left our homeland... we stand with our Druze brothers and sisters against these horrific terrorist ...

A new wave of deadly violence has shaken Syria, putting the fragile security situation in the country under the spotlight as ...