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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. The Druze ...
Syria’s Druze community is divided among those wanting to work with the government, those seeking autonomy, and others looking for outside aid.
The spiritual leader of Syria’s Druze community, Hikmat al-Hajari, on Monday reiterated his rejection of Syria’s new constitutional declaration, labeling it a “declaration of tyranny” that ...
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 ...
COLUMN. The Israeli government, after having used the Druze minority to divide the Palestinian population, is now attempting to manipulate them in Syria to weaken the new regime, writes historian ...
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 ...
The Israeli/Palestinian conflict did not have to be the way it has been. And perhaps this means it does not have to be this way forever.
Violence has once again broken out in fractured Syria between forces allied with the new Islamist regime and fighters from one of the country's religious minorities. Dozens of members of the Druze ...
Syria’s Druze divided as sectarian tensions linger after violence Agreements to halt fighting ease tensions, but fear and mistrust linger among Druze and other minorities in post-Assad Syria.
The Druze are walking a “tightrope” by “keeping distance from the new regime in Damascus but not getting too close to Israel – it’s a precarious situation.” ...
World | NPR Syrian Druze recall what they believe to be past lives — even vivid details In Syria's large Druze minority, a belief in reincarnation binds the community together.