Sheikh Muafak Tarif says over 120,000 still displaced, 300 held captive following clashes that erupted with government and ...

DAMASCUS, Syria (AP) — Before the eruption of sectarian violence in southern Syria, Saber Abou Ras taught medical sciences at a university in the city of Sweida and was somewhat hopeful of a better ...

An elderly Druze man stands near Syria's new flag and the multicolored Druze flag in Al Karama Square in the city of Sweida on March 4, 2025. AP Photo/Omar Sanadiki The Druze broke off from the ...

The Druze religious sect, enmeshed in an outbreak of tit-for-tat violence in Syria, began roughly 1,000 years ago as an offshoot of Ismailism, a branch of Shiite Islam. Most Druze religious practices ...

MAJDAL SHAMS, Israel — A year after a Hezbollah missile slammed into a soccer field here, killing 12 children and turning the quiet Druze town near Israel’s northeastern border into a symbol of ...

After violent clashes between Druze and Bedouin militias erupted in Syria’s southern Suwayda region last week – killing over 1,000 people and displacing almost 130,000 others – the religious group has ...

MAZRAA, Syria — Syria’s armed Bedouin clans announced Sunday that they had withdrawn from the Druze-majority city of Sweida after weeklong clashes and a U.S.-brokered ceasefire, as humanitarian aid ...

(THE CONVERSATION) Violence continues several weeks after clashes started between armed Bedouin clans, Sunni jihadist groups and Druze fighters on July 14, 2025, in Sweida, a city in southern Syria.

KAFR MARIS, Syria (AP) — The small Druze minority in Syria’s northern Idlib province was shaken by an apparently targeted shooting that killed three members of their community this week. The attack ...

“They cried, they hugged, and then they went back to opposite sides of the fence, in enemy states,” recalled a soldier who witnessed family reunions during the brief breach. MAJDAL SHAMS, Israel — A ...