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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.
SWEIDA, Syria — Nervous Druze militiamen at checkpoints in southern Syria craned their necks in recent days to look inside stopped vehicles, sizing up drivers and bracing for new threats ...
Not all Druze believe in reincarnation, but many families embrace those they believe are their previous loved ones. The creased old photo, he says, was from his daughter in his past life, ...
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 in the crossfire - opinion The rise of extremist forces in Syria under the new regime of Ahmed al-Sharaa poses a direct threat to regional stability and border security.
For many of the Druze community in the Golan Heights mourning 12 youngsters killed in a missile strike at the weekend, the carnage came as a shock despite the months of daily rocket fire and air ...
With Israel's move into the Golan Heights demilitarized zone and southern Syria following the collapse of al-Assad's regime, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu must heed the calls of Druze in Syria ...
Druze representatives have declared their loyalty to a united Syria after previous Israeli warnings. Last month's massacres on the coast, where the observatory said security forces and allied groups ...
Today Syria’s Druze, concentrated along the borders with Israel and Jordan, are caught between an Islamist-leaning government they distrust and Israel’s increasing encroachment on Syria.
The Druze religious sect is a minority group that began as a 10th-century offshoot of Ismailism, a branch of Shiite Islam. Over half of the roughly 1 million Druze worldwide live in Syria.
At least 100 people have been killed in two days of sectarian clashes in Syria, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said Thursday. Sheikh Hikmat al-Hijri, a spiritual leader of the Druze ...
Half of these residents are from the Druze community, who worry about what the fall of Bashar al-Assad's regime will mean for them and their family members on the Syrian side of the border.