Dozens of Syrian Druze Make a Rare Visit to Israeli-Controlled Golan Heights
Dozens of clerics and others from Syria’s minority Druze community have crossed into the Israeli-controlled side of the Golan ...
Three buses carrying Druze from Syria cross into Israeli-controlled area of the Golan Heights
The visit comes as Israel says it is supporting the minority in a country now ruled by Islamists. But many Druze have ...
Syrian leader signs constitution that puts the country under an Islamist group’s rule for 5 years
Syria’s interim president on Thursday signed a temporary constitution that leaves the country under Islamist rule for five ...
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Syria Hangs By A Thread While US Sanctions Block Reconstruction
Major US Sanctions are a major barrier to reconstruction in Syria. With violence erupting on the country’s coast, US ...
In Netanyahu’s new Middle East, Syria could become Israel’s biggest strategic gain
Just hours after Islamist rebels ousted longtime Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad in December, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu stood at edge of the occupied Golan Heights and looked out over ...
Druze religious elders from Syria make historic visit to Israel
Around 100 Druze sheikhs from villages on the slope of Mount Hermon in Syria, overlooked by the Israeli-occupied Golan ...
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Syrian Druze cross armistice line for pilgrimage to Israel
Dozens of Syrian Druze clerics crossed the armistice line on the Golan Heights into Israel on Friday for their community's ...
Syria's Four Wars Explained 14 Years On
Fourteen years after Syria's civil war began, the nation's new Islamist government faces sectarian conflict on four fronts.
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'Are you Alawite?': Killings in Syrian village of Arwa raise fears of endless sectarian violence
An eerie silence hangs over Arza, a mainly Alawite village in the rural countryside of Hama province in eastern Syria. All of ...