Father Tony Boutros is a Catholic priest in Sweida, southern Syria. He is no stranger to ethnic unrest; in 2015, he was ...

In southern Syria, the government has deployed security forces and pleaded for all sides to stick to a ceasefire after ...

Government forces that were initially sent to restore order but effectively sided with the Bedouins against the Druze were ...

Israel launched airstrikes in Damascus and hit government forces in the south, demanding they withdraw and saying that Israel ...

At the center of a crisis in Syria are the Druze — a secretive religious minority that long carved out a precarious identity ...

Syria's government misread how Israel would respond to its troops deploying to the country's south this week, encouraged by U ...

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

The Jerusalem Patriarchate said the trip was made to show a "powerful expression" of solidarity. The clerics were joined by ...

Turkey fears a deepening ethnic fracture in Syria could redraw the regional map — and embolden its own Kurdish population.

This week saw the announcement of a potential Saudi-backed investment in Elon Musk’s xAI, new Bahrain-US deals and DP World’s ...

A video clip circulating on social media in recent months shows Syria’s new president, Ahmed al-Shara, astride a handsome ...

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