ToI's diplomatic reporter delves into the secretive religion and why, in championing the underdog minority, Israel may be playing the long game in the region The post Friday Focus with Lazar Berman: ...

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

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" ...

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

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

Clashes that shook southern Syria this week killed hundreds of people, including civilians, and drew in an array of local and international players, harking back to the dynamics of ...

The Druze, an ethnoreligious minority in the Levant region, began as a 10th-century offshoot of Ismailism, a branch of Shiite ...

Israel has been carrying out strikes on Syria since the fall of the Assad regime last December. This week saw a major escalation, when Israel said it attacked Syria to protect the Druze, an Arab ...

Hundreds of Druze from Israel pushed across the border in solidarity with their Syrian cousins they feared were under attack.

Israeli Druze are watching their government's pressure campaign in Syria. Israel says recent airstrikes inside Syria are to protect the Druze religious minority there from sectarian violence.

HURFEISH, Israel - Pained and angered by deadly clashes between Islamist and Druze gunmen in Syria in recent weeks, leaders of Israel's own Druze minority say the Israeli military was right to ...