The new leadership vowed to disband all militias. But the fiercely independent Druze have made no agreement, and say they're ...

In a challenge to Syria's new government, an influential religious minority rejects calls to integrate its militias.

Druze spiritual leader Sheikh Hikmat al-Hijri has taken center stage in Suwayda since Assad fell last year, as the top figure ...

One of them is the Druze religious minority. It says it is keeping its weapons because it is distrustful of the new government and fears sectarian attacks. NPR's Jane Arraf reports from the ...

The Druze are a people and religion of around one million people globally, and the faith can trace its origins back to the Levant region, the name for the area including Israel, Syria, Lebanon and ...

JEROME DREVON is Senior Analyst in Jihad and Modern Conflict at the International Crisis Group. He is the author of From ...

Residents of southwestern Syria say they fear the prospect of an all-out war between Israel and Syria’s new authorities.

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Despite his rhetoric about democracy and inclusivity, Syria’s new president is steering the country back toward military dictatorship.

Syrian Kurds are set to demand a federal system in post-Assad Syria that would allow regional autonomy and security forces, a ...

Western colonial states must give back sovereignty to the peoples whose land they continue to occupy not as guests by as ...

Near front lines where they once battled each other, former fighters in Lebanon's civil war now gather to bear the same ...