Macedonian police have detained 128 illegal migrants from Syria, Iraq and other Middle Eastern countries sheltering in five houses in a village near the border with Serbia, the Interior Ministry said on Thursday. Villagers had rented their houses to the migrants for 1,500 euros ($1,685) a...

Tawhid Party chief Wiam Wahhab Thursday urged Druze to form an armed force to defend themselves after at least 20 members of their community were killed by Nusra Front militants in northwest Syria. “We will not accept to sell Druze blood!” Wahhab, a former minister, said in an angry...

A Syrian rebel alliance said it had captured an air base from the army in southern Syria Thursday, a gain that would compound setbacks for President Bashar Assad in the area after losing a nearby military base this week. Issam al-Rayyes, spokesman for the Southern Front alliance of...

Israel's president expressed his concern to the United States on Wednesday about the fate of the Druze minority in Syria, saying around 500,000 of them were under threat from Islamist militants in an area near the Israeli border. Israel's Druze, some of whom have reached the senior echelons of...