Fearing that instability in Syria will evolve into persecution, some Druze communities in the Syrian part of the Golan Heights are asking for Israel to annex their towns. Videos have emerged from ...

The Druze in the Golan Heights all lived under Syrian rule until 1967, when Israel captured two-thirds of the strategic high-altitude Golan plateau in the 1967 Six-Day War.

Carrying Syrian flags and pictures of President Bashar al-Assad, hundreds of Arab Druze who live on the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights gathered on Thursday to mark the annexation of the territory ...

On July 25, 2018, ISIS-linked terrorists stormed the Druze-majority city of Suwayda, launching gunfights and suicide bombings that claimed the lives of at least 258 people, most of them civilians.

Israel’s 1981 annexation of the area is recognized only by the United States, with the rest of the world considering it occupied Syrian territory. Crossing from Syria into Israeli-controlled ...

Syrian Druze crossed into the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights for the first time in 50 years Early on Friday morning, a group of Syrian men crossed into the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights through a ...

Israel sees Assad's fall as a chance to revive the idea of a Druze state, stoke sectarianism in Syria and seize more land. If Syria stands united, these plans are doomed to fail.

Druze are often held up as the best-integrated of Israel’s Arab minorities. But members of the faith who live in the Golan Heights have an especially complicated relationship with Israel.

Golani Druze people threw away their Israeli identity cards in 1982 in protest at annexation. Jewish Telegraphic Agency. 1982. Jta daily news bulletin. , Author provided (no reuse) ...

Over half of the roughly 1 million Druze worldwide live in Syria. Most other Druze live in Lebanon and Israel and the Golan Heights, a rocky plateau seized from Syria by Israel in the 1967 Mideast war ...