Spread across Syria, Lebanon and Israel, the secretive religious minority has long balanced integration and independence. Now, members are at the heart of the region’s shifting power struggles. By ...

The violence underscores the government’s challenge to assert nationwide control as ethnic and religious tensions simmer after the end of the civil war. By Raja Abdulrahim and Reham Mourshed More than ...

This piece is an expression of my frustrations with the professionalism-level of the Israeli Police. We see lots of police around town since the attack in Har Nof. When I was in town on Sun. morn. I ...

HURFEISH, Israel—The men of this Druse village in the Galilee mountains proudly don shirts from their days in elite Israeli combat units. But now they fear the same military is helping Islamist rebels ...

MAJDAL SHAMS, Golan Heights (AP) – Civil war in neighboring Syria is tearing apart the once tight-knit Druse community on the Golan Heights. Angry arguments between supporters and foes of Syrian ...

Under a darkening sky in the northernmost corner of the Golan Heights, a small crowd gathers at the town square in this Druse village late in the afternoon and unfurls a few Syrian flags. Standing ...

IN the shifting sands of the Middle East, the Druse people in the Israeli-annexed Golan Heights again find themselves caught in the middle. Do they maintain their traditional loyalty to the government ...

BEIRUT—Al Qaeda-linked rebels in Syria shot and killed at least 23 members of the Druse sect, antigovernment activists said Thursday, the deadliest attack on civilians from the religious minority ...