While strategic considerations were still in play, the heart of the decision lay in defending the extended family of Israel’s own Druze—a gesture shaped as much by kinship as by security.

According to the Sham TV channel, the Israeli planes hit ground targets near a checkpoint a humanitarian corridor on Bosra al-Kharir ...

Badly needed humanitarian supplies started to reach Syria's Druze-majority Sweida province on Sunday, a day after a ceasefire was announced following a week of sectarian fighting that left hundreds ...

So it's a messy situation. Israel has to decide, with help from the United States, what it wants to do next with this ...