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

The Druze are a prominent religious community of more than a million people spread across Syria, Lebanon and Israel, who for ...

Today we, the Druze, are being slaughtered and are calling for the help of Israel.” Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu shared ...

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The Druze faith has deep connection to Greek philosophy, especially Pythagorean and Platonic thought, and its belief in ...

Clashes between Syrian government forces and Druze armed groups have escalated, drawing Israeli intervention and raising ...

The long persecuted minority has been at the centre of a recent bout of sectarian violence in Syria, which saw the IDF bomb Damascus in support of the community ...

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

SWEIDA, Syria — Nawaf Nasr, 78, holds a creased black-and-white photo showing what he believes is himself in a previous life. The image, from the 1940s, shows a serious-looking young man wearing ...

The Druze religion holds that reincarnation is a path to spiritual purification. SWEIDA, Syria — Nawaf Nasr, 78, holds a creased black-and-white photo showing what he believes is himself in a ...

SWEIDA, Syria — Nawaf Nasr, 78, holds a creased black-and-white photo showing what he believes is himself in a previous life. The image, from the 1940s, shows a serious-looking young man wearing an ...