Sectarian-tinged clashes left hundreds dead and drew in Israeli military intervention. A U.S. envoy said Israel and Syria had ...

Violence between government forces and armed factions of a religious minority in southern Syria has deepened divisions in a country still recuperating from a civil war.

Spread across Syria, Lebanon and Israel, the secretive religious minority has long balanced integration and independence. Now ...

Members of Syria's Druze community are searching for loved ones and counting their dead after days of clashes in a southern ...

Israel launched rare strikes in Damascus on Wednesday in a campaign it said was aimed at defending the Druze community after ...

During today's White House press briefing, press secretary Karoline Leavitt stated that the Israeli strike that hit a Catholic church in Gaza this week was "a mistake." ...

A team of archaeologists have unearthed what is believed to be the long-forgotten Byzantine settlement of Tharais, offering significant new insights into the history of Christianity in the Middle East ...

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