'Brotherhood Alliance' aims for Knesset seats and kingmaker role as Druze frustration with major parties grows; no clarity ...

The Druze religious sect, enmeshed in an outbreak of tit-for-tat violence in Syria, began roughly 1,000 years ago as an offshoot of Ismailism, a branch of Shiite Islam. Most Druze religious practices ...

(The Conversation) — The violence that overwhelmed Sweida in July 2025 reflects challenges under the transitional government, but also age-old tensions over Druze autonomy. The Druze broke off from ...

MAJDAL SHAMS, Golan Heights — For his entire life, Jalaa Ayoub could see Syria, just a few dozen yards away from the eastern edge of his town in the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights. But he could not go ...

(The Conversation) — Lebanon has a long history of sectarian violence, and the recent events in Syria are causing alarm among its religious minorities, including the Druze. (The Conversation) — ...

MAZRAA, Syria (AP) — Syria’s armed Bedouin clans on Sunday announced that they had withdrawn from Sweida following over a week of clashes and a U.S.-brokered ceasefire, as humanitarian aid convoys ...

Syrian security forces rest inside a burned out shop as they deploy in Mazraa village on the outskirts of Sweida city, in southern Syria, Sunday, July 20, 2025. (AP Photo/Omar Sanadiki) MAZRAA, Syria ...