As part of an effort to deepen its influence in southern Syria, Israel has been seeking stronger ties with the Druse religious minority that holds sway there.

Israel, on the other hand, remains deeply suspicious of Syria’s interim president, Ahmad al-Sharaa, pointing to his roots in ...

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 ...

The Druze, a minority religious sect, crossed from Syria into Israeli-controlled Golan Heights for the first time in decades. This historic visit comes after the fall of Assad in Syria. While some ...

Israeli fire has killed eight people in the Gaza Strip over the past 24 hours even as a fragile ceasefire with Hamas has ...

Fourteen years after Syria's civil war began, the nation's new Islamist government faces sectarian conflict on four fronts.

Israel’s Defense Ministry announced on Sunday that it will permit Syrian Druze workers to enter the disputed Golan Heights ...

Israel's armed forces have released a video showing a fireball and billowing smoke from an air strike they said targeted a command center of the Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ) group in the Syrian ...

Israel said the talks focused on bringing more stability to the region after a bruising war between Israel and the Lebanese ...

The Syrian Druze were a minority in the Assad era who mostly kept to themselves, with some past positive history with Israel.

Israel returned fire — the first cross-border conflict on the Golan since 1973 ... “Whoever lives here should live on the heights, and be able to see everything.” JTA has documented Jewish ...