An American citizen from Oklahoma was among eight men, all family members, rounded up and killed during the sectarian ...

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

Religious minorities in Syria face persecution under the new Islamist government, highlighting the critical importance of ...

Syria has been wracked by a new wave of deadly sectarian violence that has placed the spotlight on the Druze minority at the ...

In this whirl of shrapnel and shellfire, hopes for a new era of peace in a nation long torn apart by dictatorship and a ...

The once invincible Sweida in southern Syria, the epicentre of a revolt against French colonial rule, was counting its dead on Monday after a week of fighting that left its mostly Druze inhabitants ...

The interior ministry said clashes in Sweida city had been halted and the area cleared of Bedouin tribal fighters following ...

The Druze-majority city of Sweida in southern Syria witnessed a week of heavy clashes coupled with an offensive by ...

Suwayda, the Druze community is facing what its members have described as an "ethnic cleansing campaign" amidst a rapidly ...

Syria’s armed Bedouin clans' withdrawal from the Druze-majority city of Sweida brought a cautious calm to the area, with ...

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

Syria's Islamist-led government struggled to implement a ceasefire in the predominantly Druze region of Sweida on Saturday, ...