MK Afef Abed, who represents the Druze community in the Likud, enters the Knesset following the resignation of Yoav Gallant.

Requests for naturalization hit an all-time high as communities warm to the idea. While future trends are unpredictable, ...

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The instant collapse of Assad’s rule will reshape the geopolitics of the Mideast for years to come. Within Syria itself, the challenge is how to replace the bloodthirsty past and current revolutionary ...

Syria's newly-appointed first female governor of the southern Suwaida province joins other women appointed to high-ranking ...

Israel seized the mountainous region from Syria in 1967, and most of the world considers it occupied Syrian territory.

Nestled in the Golan Heights, the Druze communities that came under Israeli control in 1967 are torn between the hope of reuniting with their loved ones on the other side of the border and anxiety ...

Israel has a security and strategic stake in an alliance with the Kurds in Iraq and Syria, as well as supporting the Kurds in Iran and the Druze community in Syria. Strong alliances with these ...

“A meeting of the heads of the groups” with new Syrian leader Ahmed al-Sharaa “ended in an agreement on the dissolution of all the groups and their integration under the supervision of the ministry of ...

Syria's new rulers have called for the disbanding of all armed groups. But in the southwestern town of Suwayda, a small group ...

The toppling of Bashar Assad has raised tentative hopes that Syrians might live peacefully and as equals after a half century ...