Ankara, Turkey — Syria’s interim government has requested Turkey’s support to strengthen its defense capabilities, Turkish officials said, following sectarian violence over the past two weeks that ...

A scholar of religious minorities and the Middle East explains the historical persecution and marginalization of the Alawite ...

Syria’s interim government has requested Turkey’s support to strengthen its defence capabilities, Turkish officials said. It ...

The Syrian Defence Ministry has said it is aware of reports of “shocking violations” carried out by fighters wearing military ...

Syria’s interim government has requested Turkey’s help to boost its defense capabilities, Turkish officials say.

For three days last week, Osama Bshnak Radwan and his family cowered in their townhouse as rockets, artillery and bullets pulverized their Syrian enclave. Then, five armed men in military fatigues ...

The Syrian defence ministry said it was aware of reports of "shocking violations" carried out by fighters wearing military fatigues in the Druze heartland of Sweida, and said it was launching a probe ...

Relatives and officials say a Syrian-American man of the Druze religious minority is among dozens of civilians killed in ...

The US State Department confirmed the death of US citizen Hossam Soraya in the city of Suweida and extended its condolences ...

A Syrian-American who was taking care of his ill father was among the eight Druze men kidnapped from their family home and ...

Video circulating online and verified by NBC News showed Hosam Saraya, 35, and six male relatives being made to kneel before ...

Sweida recently faced intense sectarian clashes involving Druze militias, Bedouin tribes, and Syrian government forces, drawing in Israel and leading to over 300 deaths. The Syrian defense ministry ...