Attacks on the Druze by Islamist gunmen backing the new Syrian government have pushed some in the community to welcome ...

For the 150,000-strong member Druze community, attacks against their brethren across the border cause concern and a ...

The backdrop is a black stone house in Sweida province, the homeland of southern Syria's Druze religious minority. Sweida, built around a volcanic mountain, has been inhabited for thousands of ...

So the Druze are a religious minority, an offshoot from Shia Islam. And when Israel captured the Golan Heights after the 1967 war here, the Druze community became separated between Israel and Syria.

A Druze man, center, stands next to Syrian security forces who reached a deal with Druze gunmen to deploy around the southern Damascus suburb of Jaramana that has witnessed fighting earlier this ...

Recently, the Druze community in Syria has come under vicious attack by extremist Sunni factions – remnants of the same forces that once aligned themselves with ISIS and now seek to assert their ...

DAMASCUS, Syria — At least 10 people were killed on Tuesday after clashes broke out in a suburb of the Syrian capital between local gunmen belonging to the minority Druze sect and pro-government ...

Few communities embody the geopolitical fragility of the region more acutely than my community, the Druze. Scattered across four deeply interconnected yet frequently conflicting states ...

DAMASCUS, Syria (AP) — Clashes broke out in a suburb of the Syrian capital early Tuesday between local gunmen belonging to the minority Druze sect and pro-government fighters, leaving at least ...

Israel on Friday said it launched air strikes near the presidential palace in Damascus and threatened further military action to force Syrian authorities to protect its Druze people from what the ...

© 2025 The Atlanta Journal-Constitution. All Rights Reserved. DAMASCUS, Syria (AP) — Clashes broke out in a suburb of the Syrian capital early Tuesday between ...