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Druze spiritual leader Sheikh Hikmat Al-Hijri has harshly criticized Syria's government for what he called an "unjustified genocidal attack" during deadly sectarian fighting in Druze-majority ...
The documentary “Shout,” screened at the Haifa International Film Festival, outlines the dilemmas facing young Druze from the Golan Heights who leave to study in Damascus and cannot return ...
Broadly supported in much of Israel, the assault on Hezbollah has deeply divided the Druze, a minority group that inhabits areas spanning national borders across much of the Middle East.
Kamar Halabi, an Israeli-born Druze, is the sole non-Jewish player on Israel's national women's rugby team.
Seven Druze fighters were among the 17 people killed in the Damascus suburb as clashes raged from Monday into Tuesday, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said.
The Druze are a prominent religious community of more than a million people spread mainly across Syria, Lebanon and Israel, who for centuries have sought to preserve a distinct identity.
A fighter from the Druze Liwa al-Jabal militia points to an area believed to be operated by smugglers and armed groups, at an outpost in Syria's southern province of Sweida, March 4, 2025. Credit ...
The Druze hold that members of their faith who die suddenly — including those murdered or killed by accident — are immediately reincarnated as newborn babies.
The Arabic-speaking Druze community straddles the border between two countries—and, like Israel, fears Islamists.
The Druze people of Israel are a genetic sanctuary of ancient lineages of DNA, researchers reported on Wednesday.
Former senior military and police chiefs are pressing Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to revise a law enshrining the country as a Jewish nation-state to include the Druze, an ethnic minority who ...
Syria’s Druze minority has a long history of cutting their own path to survive among the country’s powerhouses. Members of the small religious sect find themselves caught between two forces ...