The Druze community is furious that, despite losing 13 soldiers during the war, the government has decided not to send a minister to the upcoming memorial ceremony in the village of Usfiya to ...

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 ...

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 where ...

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 their ...

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 ...