Sharaa vowed to protect minority groups including the Druze and the Alawites, who formerly dominated power in Syria. But ...

Straddling Lebanon, Syria, Jordan, Israel and the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights, the Druze occupy a special niche in the ...

After the eruption of the Syrian conflict in 2011, a PYD-affiliated armed group, the People's Protection Units (YPG), established control of Kurdish-majority areas in northern Syria. Under the banner ...

The Druze, an ethnoreligious minority in the Levant region, began as a 10th-century offshoot of Ismailism, a branch of Shiite ...

Dozens of people have been killed in armed clashes between Sunni Bedouin tribal fighters and Druze militias in southern Syria ...