A fresh wave of deadly sectarian violence has rocked Syria, highlighting the country's fragile security landscape.

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

Amid the recent outbreak of Syrian government-sponsored violence targeting the Druze minority, the dire plight of minorities, ...

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

Israel has claimed that its military stepped in to protect the Druze community in Syria and eliminate pro-government forces ...

A scholar of religious minorities and the Middle East explains the historical persecution and marginalization of the Alawite ...

PKK disbands after decades of guerrilla warfare, following calls for peace and democratic process by founder Abdullah Ocalan.

Inside the centre of Sweida city, there were continuing fierce battles for most of the day, between Druze militia led by ...

As violence broke out last week between two ethnic groups in southern Syria, both the Israeli and Syrian governments ...

Building on the broader analysis presented in Part I, this second article focuses on the internal political and strategic ...

The state still considers them terrorists. They are Kurdish children. The state must act immediately and extend its hand for ...