The new leadership vowed to disband all militias. But the fiercely independent Druze have made no agreement, and say they're ...

In the Syrian civil war’s earliest days, Assad’s government only disclosed the locations of 27 sites to the OPCW.

In a challenge to Syria's new government, an influential religious minority rejects calls to integrate its militias.

"There is no consensus between us and the Damascus government," Sheikh Hikmat al-Hijri, the Druze spiritual leader in Syria, told NPR from his village home in Sweida, a predominantly Druze ...

“There is no consensus between us and the Damascus government,” Sheikh Hikmat al-Hijri, the Druze spiritual leader in Syria, told NPR from his village home in Sweida, a predominantly Druze ...

SWEIDA, Syria — The road from Damascus to Sweida winds through outcrops of black volcanic rock, past rainfed vineyards and olive groves and up to the Mountain of the Druze — a natural fortress ...