Clashes raged in the southern Syrian city of Sweida on Wednesday after a ceasefire between government forces and Druze armed groups collapsed and as Israel threatened to escalate its involvement, ...

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A stampede at a food distribution site run by an Israeli-backed American organization in the Gaza Strip killed 20 ...

The Druze are a small, secretive ethnoreligious community that emerged in the early 11th century in Egypt. They broke away from mainstream Islam during the rule of the Fatimid Caliph al-Hakim bi-Amr ...

Fighting between Syrian government forces and local Druze fighters continued in the southern Druze city of Sweida on ...

Jerusalem: Israel said it bombed Syrian army headquarters in Damascus on Wednesday after warning the Islamist-led government to leave the Druze minority alone in its Sweida heartland where a monitor ...

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

Airstrike targets Damascus site as fighting resumes between Syrian government and Druze groups following ceasefire collapse ...