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

Hundreds of people have been killed in days of violence in southern Syria which began with clashes between members of the ...

At the center of a crisis in Syria are the Druze — a secretive religious minority that long carved out a precarious identity ...

The Druze, a religious sect with roots in Ismailism and a storied history in Syria, maintain secrecy and discourage ...

The Druze, an ethnoreligious minority in the Levant region, began as a 10th-century offshoot of Ismailism, a branch of Shiite ...

A fresh ceasefire agreement has been brokered between Syrian government officials and leaders of the Druze religious minority on Wednesday - the second truce in as many days, after the first collapsed ...

After the eruption of the Syrian conflict in 2011, a PYD-affiliated armed group, the People's Protection Units (YPG), established control of Kurdish-majority areas in northern Syria. Under the banner ...

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.

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.In Syria, ...

Syrian Druze community pleas for int'l assistance as sectarian violence continues "We no longer trust the body that calls itself a government," Hakmat Al-Hajeri, a leader in Syria’s Druze ...

The state will implement a new curriculum called “Druze Society: History, Heritage and Culture,” intended to highlight “the historical partnership between the Druze and the State of Israel ...

The northern Israeli town ravaged by a Hezbollah rocket attack Saturday that killed at least 11 people — mostly children — and injured dozens of others is home to members of the Druze community.