Lebanon has a long history of sectarian violence, and the recent events in Syria are causing alarm among its religious ...

The violence that overwhelmed Sweida in July 2025 reflects challenges under the transitional government, but also age-old ...

As their community faces what they describe as ethnic cleansing in Syria, these young scholars balance academic excellence ...

Syria appears poised to enter another bloody chapter, this time involving revenge campaigns targeting the Druze minority.

Though relatively limited in their duration and destruction, Israel’s airstrikes on Syria last month were conspicuous for their rationale. This was no act ...

For Israel, the transformation of Syria into a forward staging ground for Turkey poses an immediate strategic dilemma,’’ they ...

“The Israeli Druze are now trying to use that and urge the Israeli government to protect fellow Druze in Syria,” he said, ...

The Druze, a religious sect with roots in Ismailism, have faced violence in Syria. Their practices are secretive, with no conversions or intermarriage allowed. Over half the world’s Druze population ...

The Bedouins are traditionally nomadic, Arabic-speaking tribes who have inhabited the deserts of the Middle East and North Africa for centuries.

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 ...