Ceasefire collapses in Syria, US expands migrant detention, and more. Here's what you need to know this Friday evening, July ...

The Druze religious sect, enmeshed in an outbreak of tit-for-tat violence in Syria, began roughly 1,000 years ago as an ...

Not a single civilian remained in Mazraa, a Druze-majority town in the western suburbs of Sweida in Syria, on Friday. Thick black smoke billowed over the city as Bedouin fighters roamed the roads in ...

Several days of bitter sectarian fighting in the south of Syria has brought the fledgling government in Damascus dangerously ...

As alarming sectarian violence swept through Syria in the third week of July, Christian communities in the region experienced ...

Israel’s air strikes this week on Sweida in southern Syria, and the Defence Ministry building in central Damascus, followed ...

One elderly man had been shot in the head in his living room. Another in his bedroom. The body of a woman lay in the street.

Israeli bombing and government’s apparent complicity in sectarian clashes have damaged efforts to unify country ...

Israel’s demand for a demilitarized zone in southern Syria and its promise to protect the Druze minority are putting it in ...

The conflict drew airstrikes against Syrian forces by neighboring Israel in defense of the Druze minority before most of the ...

One woman tells the BBC she cowered in her home waiting for gunmen to enter and "decide whether we should live or die".

Father Toni Butros, Greek Catholic leader in Sweida, declares in a video statement: “We have not left our homeland... we stand with our Druze brothers and sisters against these horrific terrorist ...