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The new leadership vowed to disband all militias. But the fiercely independent Druze have made no agreement, and say they're ...
In a challenge to Syria's new government, an influential religious minority rejects calls to integrate its militias.
SWEIDA, Syria — The road from Damascus to Sweida winds through outcrops of black volcanic rock, past rainfed vineyards and olive groves and up to the Mountain of the Druze — a natural fortress ...
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 ...
Lebanese Druze leader Walid Jumblatt has accused Israel of exploiting followers of his minority faith in Syria as part of a broader plan to divide the Middle East along sectarian lines. The Druze ...
Majdal Shams (AFP) – Dozens of Syrian Druze clerics crossed the armistice line on the Golan Heights into Israel on Friday for their community's first pilgrimage to a revered shrine in decades.
Dozens of Syrian Druze clerics crossed into Israel on Friday for their community’s first pilgrimage to a revered shrine since Israel’s creation in 1948. On board three buses escorted by ...
Opening a kosher restaurant in New York City wasn’t always in the cards for Raif Rashed, a Druze from the village of Usfiya in northern Israel. But as Rashed, the owner of Taboonia — a new ...
This visit, by religious leaders from Syria's Druze minority, signals the dramatic changes in Israel's strategy along this frontier and its expanding military control of Syrian territory ...