BEIRUT (AP) — Hundreds of people demonstrated in Syria’s southern city of Sweida and elsewhere on Saturday to demand the right to self determination for the Druze minority, the largest protests to ...

The climb to Mar Musa al-Habashi monastery is deliberate and demanding. Three hundred forty stone steps wind up a stark, ...

The Supreme Druze Religious Council, led by Sheikh Mouafek Tarif, has submitted a formal appeal to the United Nations Commission of Inquiry on Syria, urging the body to launch an immediate ...

When Americans think of the Middle East, we often focus on the headlines: wars between states, clashes between Sunnis and Shias, or the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Beneath those familiar stories ...

The United States is seeking to construct a humanitarian corridor for Israel to cut through Syrian territory and connect with the embattled Druze community. U.S. government authorities are negotiating ...

IDLIB, Syria (AP) — A bombing at a mosque in the Syrian city of Homs during Friday prayers killed at least eight people and wounded 18 others, authorities said, as long-standing sectarian, ethnic and ...

AFRIN, Syria — Young Kurdish men, including members of religious minorities, recently signed up to join the Syrian government’s General Security forces in Afrin, an area in the country’s north from ...

Though relatively limited in their duration and destruction, Israel’s airstrikes on Syria last month were conspicuous for their rationale. This was no act of self-defense. It was, in Israeli Prime ...

A prominent Druze leader in southern Syria demanded on Monday the creation of a separate region for his minority community, as he seeks to unite local armed factions following sectarian violence last ...

Mother Agnes-Mariam of the Cross will discuss the situation in Syria Monday at 7 p.m. at First United Methodist Church, 2723 N. 50th St. She is Mother Superior of St. James the Mutilated, the oldest ...