The Druze religious sect, enmeshed in an outbreak of tit-for-tat violence in Syria, began roughly 1,000 years ago as an ...

A ceasefire went into effect late Wednesday, easing days of brutal clashes in Sweida. Now, members of its Druze community who ...

A rocket attack on a Druze village in the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights that killed 11 people, including children, has brought attention to the secretive religious and ethnic group.

Dubai: Israel’s strikes on Damascus and southern Syria this week mark a dramatic escalation in a region already fractured by ...

And Israeli-backed American organization in Gaza says 20 Palestinians died in a stampede at a food distribution center.

The Druze are a prominent religious community of more than a million people spread across Syria, Lebanon and Israel, who for ...

The Druze - a community with its own unique practices and beliefs, whose faith began as an off-shoot of Shia Islam - have historically occupied a precarious position in Syria's political order.

On May 29, an Israeli security official stated that Israel will not intervene militarily in support of any group in Syria. This stance follows previous Israeli intervention to protect the Syrian Druze ...

Opinion Israel Israel's Druze equation Column Jean-Pierre Filiu Historian and professor at Sciences Po Paris The Israeli government, after having used the Druze minority to divide the Palestinian ...

Israeli Druze are watching their government's pressure campaign in Syria. Israel says recent airstrikes inside Syria are to protect the Druze religious minority there from sectarian violence.

Pained and angered by deadly clashes between Islamist and Druze gunmen in Syria in recent weeks, leaders of Israel's own Druze minority say the Israeli military was right to intervene to defend ...