STORY: Violence in southern Syria has put a spotlight on a small but influential minority, the Druze.:: Who are the Druze?The ...

The conflict had drawn airstrikes against Syrian forces by neighboring Israel in defense of the Druze before a truce halted ...

One elderly man had been shot in the head in his living room. Another in his bedroom. The body of a woman lay in the street.

Syrian minority the Druze were at the centre of a new conflict, following another outbreak of violence. What began as ...

Members of Syria's Druze community are searching for loved ones and counting their dead after days of clashes in a southern ...

In Syria, Druze fighters have clashed both with neighbouring Bedouin tribes and with forces loyal to the Islamist government, ...

Syrian government forces had largely pulled out of the Druze-majority southern province of Sweida after days of clashes with ...

One woman tells the BBC she cowered in her home waiting for gunmen to enter and "decide whether we should live or die".

Violence again swept the Druze-majority city of Suwayda early Friday morning as the UK-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights reports that nearly 600 people have been killed since fighting erupted ...

Hundreds of Druze from Israel pushed across the border in solidarity with their Syrian cousins they feared were under attack. Many then met relatives they had never seen before.

Israeli leaders said they launched attacks on Syria this week to protect members of the Druze religious group in the ...