Druze

Samir Kantar, a Lebanese who was convicted of carrying out one of the most notorious attacks in Israeli history and spent nearly three decades in an Israeli prison, has been killed by an Israeli airstrike near the Syrian capital, the Lebanese Shiite Hezbollah group said Sunday.

Syria’s al-Qaida branch on Tuesday released a group of Lebanese troops held captive for over a year

As a result of the threat to the Syrian Druze by al-Qaida-linked Nusra Front, their protection now is contested between a trio of sworn enemies: al-Qaida-affiliated rebel fighters, the Syrian regime, and Israel.

Al-Qaida’s affiliate in Syria has killed at least 20 Druze after a confrontation in the northwestern Idlib province