Senior political sources describe Israel’s new security policy as a strategic shift, particularly concerning Arab states with which it has no peace agreements, such as Syria and Lebanon.

Israel’s expansionist ambitions continue to drive the erasure of Palestine, raising the critical question: Can the US and ...

Hamas aims to adopt ‘Hezbollah model’ in Gaza Strip • High Court of Justice denies order to resume electricity to Gaza • Israel, Lebanon to launch US-mediated talks ...

The stalling of the ceasefire is part of a wider strategic shift, as Israel’s army seeks to maintain a larger geographical ...

Border negotiations could pave the way for a peace treaty that would be among Israel’s most significant in nearly half a ...

By Euan Ward Reporting from Beirut, Lebanon Israel has conducted new airstrikes on Syria’s coast and ground raids in the country’s south, part of a recent wave of attacks that Israel says are ...

The Golan Heights is home to 24,000 Druze, an Arab minority who practice an offshoot of Islam and also live in Israel, Lebanon, Jordan and Syria. Sign up here. Israel captured most of the ...

Defense Minister Israel Katz on Sunday publicly confirmed recent reports that Israel will undertake the radical move of allowing Syrian Druze ... southern Lebanon, fired shots at several suspects ...

The opinions, facts and any media content in them are presented solely by the authors, and neither The Times of Israel ... southern Syria to be turned into a second southern Lebanon.

Over half of the roughly one million Druze worldwide live in Syria. Most of the other Druze live in Lebanon and Israel, including in the Golan Heights which Israel captured from Syria in the 1967 ...

"To be honest, the Alawites clearly ask for international protection," a former Syrian diplomat told Newsweek.

There are minority Druze communities in Israel, Syria and Lebanon. Syria's Islamist-led government on Monday said it had completed a military operation against a nascent insurgency. The violence ...