Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Israeli troops on Saturday in the Golan Heights, where there is a large population of the Druze religious minority - Jalaa ...

The White House is attributing the outbreak of violence in the Middle East between the Syrian government and Israel to a "misunderstanding" over ethnic grudges. Secretary of State Marco Rubio blamed ...

The northern Israeli town ravaged by a Hezbollah rocket attack Saturday that killed at least 11 people — mostly children — and injured dozens of others is home to members of the Druze community. The ...

Various Druze factions and groups in Sweida in southern Syria have combined their forces into a “national guard” that will operate under Druze leader Hikmat al-Hijri, a report on August 23 suggested.

A ROCKET FLEW across Israel’s tense northern border on July 27th, and landed on a football pitch, killing 12 children and teenagers. Israel says that Hizbullah, a Lebanese militant group, is ...

Hamas flags at the 25th anniversary rally in 2012 (Photo: Fars Media Corporation via Wikipedia CC BY 4.0) Syria appears poised to enter another bloody chapter, this time involving revenge campaigns ...

DAMASCUS, Syria (AP) — Syrian government officials and leaders in the Druze religious minority announced Wednesday a renewed ceasefire after days of clashes that have threatened to unravel the country ...

BEIRUT — Syrian government fighters entered the city of Sweida over the summer in an apparent bid to assert control over the enclave of the Druze minority that for years had operated in semiautonomy.

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 ...

The Druze became central figures in a recent, startling episode in the Middle East. Israel sent warplanes and troops into Syria to defend this Arab religious minority, attacking the armed groups that ...

(The Conversation) — The violence that overwhelmed Sweida in July 2025 reflects challenges under the transitional government, but also age-old tensions over Druze autonomy. The Druze broke off from ...

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 ...