Clashes have raged in the Syrian city of Sweida after a ceasefire between government forces and Druze armed groups collapsed ...

Israel's military said it struck the entrance to the Syrian defence ministry in Damascus on Wednesday, stepping up attacks on the Islamist-led authorities with the declared aim of protecting the Druze ...

Israel intensified its military actions by targeting the Syrian defence ministry entrance in Damascus, aiming to protect the Druze minority from harm by government forces. The attacks marked the third ...

The Druze religious sect began as a 10th-century offshoot of Ismailism, a branch of Shiite Islam. More than half of the roughly 1 million Druze worldwide live in Syria. Most of the other Druze live in ...

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Druse militiamen have been fighting with Bedouins in the Sweida Province, and Syrian government forces and the Israeli ...