At least nine people in southwestern Syria were killed in Israeli strikes, Syrian state media has reported, while Israel accused Turkey of trying to build a "protectorate" in Syria.

In years past, Israel might have been content to stop there. But its current leaders favour an unbridled assertion of power, some for pragmatic reasons, others for ideological ones. They are seizing ...

Nicolas Pelham: If you look at the geopolitical map of Syria under Sharaa, it looks very much like the ... Alongside them are the Druze. Many of their leaders seem increasingly to be looking to Israel ...

Syria’s Interim President Ahmad al-Sharaa signed ... be done to protect the rights of diverse communities. As the below map ...

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 ...

In a challenge to Syria's new government, an influential religious minority rejects calls to integrate its militias.

The new leadership vowed to disband all militias. But the fiercely independent Druze have made no agreement, and say they're ...

Three days after a spate of killings targeting another minority in Latakia, Druze leaders evacuated more than 1,200 students from universities along the Mediterranean. They arrived to safety late ...