SWEIDA, Syria — The road from Damascus to Sweida winds through outcrops of black volcanic rock, past rainfed vineyards and olive groves and up to the Mountain of the Druze — a natural fortress ...

The June 22 attack on the Mar Elias Church in Damascus underscores the threat of extremism in Syria even after the fall of ...

Walid Jumblatt, a Druze leader in Lebanon who has been a key political player in the country for forty years, has called on ...

The Druze have a long history of taking up arms from their mountain stronghold. A century ago, Sultan al-Atrash led the Great Syrian Revolt against French colonial rule, which eventually led to ...

Syria and Israel have held direct talks, according to Israeli media, about potentially entering into a normalisation ...

The Druze are a key religious minority in Syria. They comprise only 3% of the country’s population, which is predominantly Sunni Muslim, but their fierce independence and militia control of ...

A fighter from the Druze Liwa al-Jabal militia points to an area believed to be operated by smugglers and armed groups, at an outpost in Syria's southern province of Sweida, March 4, 2025.

Druze gunmen stand next to a checkpoint after clashes between members of the minority Druze sect and fighters in the southern suburb of Jaramana, Damascus, Syria, April 29, 2025 [Omar Sanadiki/AP ...

As the war rages on in Syria, the 700,000 Druze there have found themselves in a precarious situation. Many once supported Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, but some have now lost trust in his regime.

There are an estimated 700,000 Druze in Syria, making them the country's third-largest religious group; there are also around 230,000 in Lebanon and 25,000 in Jordan. Israel and the Palestinian ...

Nawaf Nasr, a 78-year-old member of Syria's Druze community, holds a creased black-and-white photo that he says shows him on horseback in a previous life before he died.

SWEIDA, Syria — The road from Damascus to Sweida winds through outcrops of black volcanic rock, past rainfed vineyards and olive groves and up to the Mountain of the Druze — a natural fortress ...