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The Syrian military entered the Druze strongholds, triggering fears of attack on minorities and prompting Israeli strikes.
The decisive action in Syria this week is an example to the rest of the world that it is possible to intervene when a massacre or genocide is taking place.
Syrian government forces largely pulled out of the southern province of Sweida on Thursday after days of clashes with ...
Ahmed Al-Sharaa called on all sides to exercise calm and restraint, pledging to bring to justice those responsible for the violence "regardless of their ethnicity" ...
Members of Syria’s Druze community are searching for loved ones and counting their dead after days of clashes in a southern ...
Israel’s demand for a demilitarized zone in southern Syria and its promise to protect the Druze minority are putting it in ...
Israeli leaders said they launched attacks on Syria this week to protect members of the Druze religious group in the ...
Sectarian clashes in Southern Syria have shattered expectations of a speedy peace process between Jerusalem and Damascus.
For weeks, Israel has engaged in back-channel talks over a diplomatic agreement with the Syrian government. Its strikes on Damascus this week highlight a lack of strategic clarity.
After a massacre perpetrated by Syrian government forces in a Druze city, the IDF launched airstrikes on behalf of its own ...
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President Ahmed al-Shara said the airstrike on Damascus threatened to escalate sectarian violence, in his sharpest criticism ...