Sweida security chief Sheikh Suleiman Abdul Baqi told Newsweek Israel's role may "result in more escalation." ...

Citing the official, KAN reported that American support is conditional on Sharaa's actions not harming Israel's national ...

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 ...

Four civilians killed and another injured in attack in government-controlled area of the restive southern province ...

The destruction of Kurdish autonomy and the systematic persecution of Syria's religious minorities did not occur in a vacuum.

(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.

Syria’s authorities have arrested an internal security officer as a suspect in the killing of four civilians in the majority-Druze Sweida ...

MAZRAA, Syria — Syria’s armed Bedouin clans announced Sunday that they had withdrawn from the Druze-majority city of Sweida after weeklong clashes and a U.S.-brokered ceasefire, as humanitarian aid ...

MAJDAL SHAMS, Golan Heights — For his entire life, Jalaa Ayoub could see Syria, just a few dozen yards away from the eastern edge of his town in the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights. But he could not go ...

Ahmed al-Sharaa clearly does not believe his twin aspirations are mutually incompatible, though they may be. Where is an Islamic state that is truly democratic?