The spiritual leader of the Israeli Druze, Sheikh Mowafaq Tarif, met Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to press for military ...

Israel has used attacks on religious minority by forces loyal to Syria's new government to justify strikes across the border ...

Sectarian violence has erupted again in Syria, raising fresh doubt on the ability of the new Islamist rulers to control armed ...

A leader of Syria’s Druze minority has condemned attacks against his community after dozens of people were killed in two days of sectarian clashes south of Damascus. Sheikh Hikmat al-Hijri on Thursday ...

Israel said it carried out a strike in Syria against "an extremist group" that attacked members of the Druze community, following through on a promise to defend the minority group as deadly sectarian ...

The sectarian violence involving Islamist factions, security forces and Druze gunmen is another sign of the fragile security ...

Syria opposed the formation of Israel and went to war with it following its declaration of statehood. Syria signed an armistice agreement with Israel in 1949, but a new source of friction, the ...

The Israeli/Palestinian conflict did not have to be the way it has been. And perhaps this means it does not have to be this ...

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.

Demonstrators block traffic on several roads in north, leading to scuffles, also protest near Netanyahu's home in Caesarea; Druze soldiers write to PM demanding IDF action in Syria ...

Israel's PM says it will "not allow any threat" to the minority in Syria after sectarian clashes in which dozens were killed.

Syria denies Jerusalem's claim that strike foiled planned attack on civilians; IDF chief orders further strikes if violence against minority persists; Israeli Druze urge intervention ...