The Syrian government announced Thursday that local leaders would assume control over security in the city of Sweida in an attempt to end violence that has claimed hundreds of lives and prompted Israel’s military intervention in support of the Druze minority. Syrian forces had deployed to...

Among the remnants of Bashar al-Assad's regime, Hikmat al-Hijri stands out, not as a cleric, but as one of the most prominent leaders of the "remnants" who refused to accept the regime's fall and decided to fight in its name until the last moment—albeit under a religious and social guise....

An Israeli military official said on Wednesday that some troops stationed in the Gaza Strip were to be redeployed to the area of the frontier with Syria, where Israel has struck claiming to defend the Druze minority. The military official told reporters during a briefing that some soldiers...

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s government has reached a deadlock after two ultra-Orthodox parties withdrew from the ruling coalition, leaving it on the verge of collapse. The Agudat Yisrael faction, which holds three seats in the 120-seat Knesset, quit the government in protest...