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On May 29, an Israeli security official stated that Israel will not intervene militarily in support of any group in Syria.
Attacks on the Druze by Islamist gunmen backing the new Syrian government have pushed some in the community to welcome Israeli promises of protection.
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 intervene to defend the ...
ISIS has claimed two attacks on Syrian security forces – the first since the transitional government under former jihadist ...
The religious leader denied the recording was in his voice, and an investigation by Syria’s Ministry of the Interior has concurred. But it mattered little, as fighting between local armed Druze ...
Syria's minister of social affairs and labor says the lifting of sanctions will allow her government to begin work on ...
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.
More than 100 Syrian Druze Sheikhs crossed the border for the first time in 50 years this week to pray at the Tomb of Jethro in northern Israel. March 14, 2025 (JNS) The Israeli Druze community is ...
For the first time in more than 75 years, hundreds of Druze men have crossed from Syria to celebrate the four-day festival of Zariya at the holy site in northern Israel. Anwar Abu Hamra (60 ...
For months, many Syrians and Syria watchers had worried that the United States might never lift its sanctions. Washington first imposed sanctions on Syria in 1979, when it declared its regime to be a ...