Syria has been wracked by a new wave of deadly sectarian violence that has placed the spotlight on the Druze minority at the center of rising tensions with Israel. Dozens of people were killed this week after clashes between government loyalists and Druze militias in the southern city of Suwayda,

Clashes between Syrian government troops and local Druze fighters resumed in the southern Druze city of Sweida early on Wednesday, collapsing a ceasefire announced just hours earlier that aimed to pu...

Israel says the purpose of the strikes, both in the south and in Damascus, was to end a Syrian government assault on the Druze and to enforce the demilitarised zone it had declared around Suwayda aft...