Israel threatened to escalate attacks on Syrian government forces unless they withdrew from Sweida, a southern province ...

That afternoon, Netanyahu and Katz ordered the Israeli military to once again attack government forces and weaponry in ...

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

Sharaa's hopes of stitching Syria back together under the rule of his Islamist-led government are complicated by the ...

Israel continues to bomb Syria, ostensibly to support Druze forces in the southwest, even after ceasefire is declared.

An Israeli minister has called for Syria's President Ahmad Al Shara to be "eliminated", after a ceasefire failed to put an ...

Millions of Syrians fled during the civil war more than a decade ago. After the fall of dictator Bashar al-Assad in December, many are considering returning home. But what is left to return to?

News about Bashar al-Assad, including commentary and archival articles published in The New York Times.

The Druze are a prominent religious community of more than a million people spread across Syria, Lebanon and Israel, who for ...

Israel stepped in as the Syrian forces were not acting to prevent the strikes on Druze and were part of the problem, an Israeli official said.

Assad's 24-year rule ended abruptly as a coalition of rebel forces, led by Hay'at Tahrir al-Sham (HTS), launched a rapid ...

Members of the Syrian defence ministry forces fire towards Druze fighters amid ongoing deadly clashes in southern Syria's Sweida province. At least 248 people have been killed in the province ...