Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Bedouin and tribal fighters gather in Sweida - Moawia Atrash/DPA The US called for calm in Syria and warned that “the rape and ...

Syrian government forces and local Bedouin and Druze armed groups are responsible for grave abuses during clashes in Syria’s ...

In a stunning shift, Druze communities in Syria’s Sweida region have been seen cheering and saluting Israeli forces entering their areas. The IDF says its operation aims to protect the Druze people ...

In my 23 years in Austin working at Interfaith Action of Central Texas, I met numerous wonderful people who are genuinely committed to interfaith connections, and exhibit curiosity and openness toward ...

BEIRUT (AP) — Syrian government fighters entered the city of Sweida over the summer in an apparent bid to assert control over the enclave of the Druze minority that for years had operated in ...

The Druze religious sect, enmeshed in an outbreak of tit-for-tat violence in Syria, began roughly 1,000 years ago as an offshoot of Ismailism, a branch of Shiite Islam. Most Druze religious practices ...

DAMASCUS, Syria (AP) -- Syrian government forces largely pulled out of the southern province of Sweida on Thursday after days of clashes with militias linked to the Druze minority that threatened to ...

MAJDAL SHAMS, Golan Heights — For his entire life, Jalaa Ayoub could see Syria, just a few dozen yards away from the eastern edge of his town in the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights. But he could not go ...