The Druze religious sect is an offshoot of Ismailism, a branch of Shiite Islam. About half of the roughly one million Druze ...

In the 1990s when the Turkish government fought a pitiless war against the PKK, banned Kurdish language, criminalized ...

A U.S. envoy says that Syria’s central government and the Kurds remain at odds over plans on merging their forces after the ...

Druze tension continues in Syria, which has been turned into a hunting ground. As HTŞ turns its attention back to Suwayda, the bells of civil war have begun to ring again. The intention of the US and ...

Meanwhile, Iranian-German activists file a complaint against German chancellor, IRGC media call for mass executions, and ...

Historically, the Druze are an Arabic-speaking ethno-religious minority who are spread across Syria, Lebanon, Israel and the ...

Russia’s war against Ukraine is one of the most documented in human history. And yet, often the experience of soldiers on the ...

Lara Trump Defends Trump on Syria By Claiming ‘The Average American’ Doesn’t Even Know Who the Kurds Are. Tommy Christopher Oct 15th, 2019, 8:52 am . Share. X. Facebook. Copy Link .

NPR's Leil Fadel asks Mahmoud Meslat, co-chair of the political wing of the Syrian Democratic Forces, whether Kurds in the semi-autonomous northwest region have a voice in the new government.