Israel acted not out of expansionist aims but out of duty to protect its allies, the Druze, while balancing national ...

Recent changes in the Middle East, particularly regarding Iran, offer new opportunities for peace and normalization among ...

Barrack suggested that Israel would prefer to see Syria fragmented and divided rather than a strong central state in control ...

Syrian government forces have started withdrawing from the southern province of Sweida following days of vicious clashes with militias from the Druze minority ...

Jerusalem's military action in Syria both risks a bloodbath in Sweida and weakens the stability of a regime whose collapse ...

Washington cannot "compel" Israel to do anything, U.S. special envoy Thomas Barrack said in Beirut on Monday, in response to a reporter's question about Lebanese demands that the U.S. guarantees a ...

Hundreds of Bedouin civilians have been evacuated from Syria's Druze-dominated city of Sweida following a U.S.-backed truce, aimed at resolving recent violent clashes. This effort, drawing ...

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While expressing concern for the Druze of Sweida, leading E.U. member states and the bloc itself say Jerusalem should not get involved.The post European powers quietly disapprove of Israel’s Syria ...

DAMASCUS (Reuters) -Hundreds of Bedouin civilians were evacuated from Syria's predominantly Druze city of Sweida on Monday as part of a U.S.-backed truce meant to end fighting that has killed hundreds ...

Families of missing loved ones face a unique and agonizing grief called ambiguous loss Rachel Ganz's husband might be alive. But he might not be. More than three months after he was last seen near the ...

Tom Barrack, who is ambassador to Turkey and special envoy to Syria and also has a short-term mandate in Lebanon, told The ...