The Syrian city of Sweida has become the epicentre of recent sectarian violence, with Arab tribes mobilising to help defend the Bedouin from the Druze majority stronghold.

A complicated mess has erupted in Syria after government troops who entered Sweida were bombed and forced to withdraw when ...

Nearly 80,000 people have been displaced by sectarian violence in southern Syria that began last week, the UN’s migration ...

The Druze, a religious sect with roots in Ismailism, have faced violence in Syria. Their practices are secretive, with no ...

Fighting resumed in earnest in southern Syria after a massive army of Bedouin tribes launched a new offensive.

Several days of bitter sectarian fighting in the south of Syria has brought the fledgling government in Damascus dangerously ...

As alarming sectarian violence swept through Syria in the third week of July, Christian communities in the region experienced ...

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.

The conflict drew airstrikes against Syrian forces by neighboring Israel in defense of the Druze minority before most of the ...

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

Father Toni Butros, Greek Catholic leader in Sweida, declares in a video statement: “We have not left our homeland... we stand with our Druze brothers and sisters against these horrific terrorist ...

A Syrian Druze woman living in the United Arab Emirates frantically tried to keep in touch with her family in her hometown in ...