The Druze community in southern Syria has been thrust into the spotlight by recent events. The community mostly lives in the area of Suwayda, a city in an area called Jebel Druze or the Hauran.

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 ...

On the outskirts of Sweida, a commander in Liwa al-Jabal, a Druze militia, stood on a rooftop and scanned the hills with binoculars. He spoke by walkie-talkie with a militiaman with an assault ...

A girl was wounded on Friday evening by a bullet when gunshots were fired into the air during celebrations held by Druze residents at the shrine of Nabi Shu’ayb in Tiberias. The incident ...

Dozens of Syrian Druze clerics crossed into Israel on Friday for their community’s first pilgrimage to a revered shrine since Israel’s creation in 1948. On board three buses escorted by ...

The new leadership vowed to disband all militias. But the fiercely independent Druze have made no agreement, and say they're gathering fighters... SWEIDA, Syria — The road from Damascus to ...