Shara, Syria’s new leader, introduced a caretaker government that would supervise the country’s transition from five decades of dictatorial rule. He gave some cabinet positions to figures outside his ...

The new leadership vowed to disband all militias. But the fiercely independent Druze have made no agreement, and say they're ...

“I knew I was a Lebanese Druze,” says Netzer, who was born in Detroit in 1955 and moved to Lebanon at the age of three. “I ...

The Druze community is a small Middle Eastern religious ... its "periphery doctrine," where it seeks out alliances with non-Muslim minorities, like the Druze, and countries around the region ...

In northern Israel, Druze, Muslims, and Christians maintain unity despite regional conflicts. The Druze balance their cultural identity with Israeli loyalty, advocating coexistence and rejecting calls ...

(New York Jewish Week) — 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 bespectacled, bearded Crimean Tatar community leader is a devout Muslim. He said most of the meals he was served contained pork, the consumption of which is forbidden in Islam. “I just took ...

The entry of 40 Druze workers from Syria into Israel will begin in seven days, i24NEWS learned on Sunday. This comes after reports in i24NEWS revealed that Israel would allow members of the ...

Still, we can’t keep saying one thing while extremist rhetoric and policies isolate us into enclaves—Druze villages, Muslim towns, Haredi ghettos, settler outposts—contradicting that promise.

The Israel-aligned Druze are an insular Arabic-speaking ethnoreligious minority who originated in Egypt roughly 1,000 years ago as an offshoot of Islam. “I lost many friends that day,” said ...