I f the black basalt landscape does not immediately point to Suwayda’s idiosyncrasy, the fluttering Venezuelan flags do. The ...

In a challenge to Syria's new government, an influential religious minority rejects calls to integrate its militias.

In Syria, the new government's effort to disband militias and create a national army has run into roadblocks. One of them is the Druze religious minority. It says it is keeping its weapons because ...