Against the backdrop of the wars in Gaza and Lebanon, the fall of the Assad regime, and the tragic death of 12 Druze children in Majdal Shams in a Hezbollah rocket attack, the number of Druze ...

Two Druze rebel groups in Syria declared on Monday their willingness to join a national army after anti-regime fighters ousted Bashar Assad last month. The new Syrian authorities face the mammoth ...

One religious minority has been largely spared the horrors of Syria's seven-year civil war: the Druze. Most live in the rugged Jabal al-Druze region, in the south-western province of Suweida.

The Druze consider Jesus and Mohammed to be prophets. “If we have to choose, we will choose the lesser evil,” the speaker said, according to the Times of Israel .

The ancient wheat fields of southern Syria transform into a rugged basalt rock landscape on the approach to Suweida, home to many of the country’s Druze minority. The harsh landscape is a good ...

Like many others, the doctor has come to protest in Karamé Square in the center of this predominantly Druze town, about 100 kilometers south of Damascus, to celebrate the fall of the Assad regime ...

https://doi.org/10.13169/arabstudquar.40.3.0233 • https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.13169/arabstudquar.40.3.0233 There is an established literature which argues that ...

The Druze-majority province of Swaida in southern Syria has been one of the calmest regions in the country during nearly two years of popular insurrection, but the last month has seen an upswing ...

ERBIL, Kurdistan Region - The Druze reject Islamic rule and prefer a decentralized government in Syria, a commander from the minority group said on Sunday. “Religious and Islamic rule has only ...

ERBIL, Kurdistan Region - A delegation from the Syrian Democratic Council (SDC) on Tuesday visited Syria’s southern Druze-majority Suwayda province and met with Sheikh Hikmat Salman al-Hijri ...

Afef Abed, a member of Israel’s Druze minority, took Gallant’s seat in the Knesset on behalf of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s ruling Likud Party following Gallant’s departure ...

Maj. Gen. Alian, who is Israeli-Druze, heads the Coordinator of Government Activities in the Territories (COGAT), the IDF unit responsible for overseeing civilian policy in the West Bank.