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The Times of Israel2h
In Druze town of Majdal Shams, residents mourn one tragedy while fearing another
As hundreds pushed through the security fence separating the Israeli Golan Heights from Syria, locals fleetingly reunited ...
Religion News Service9h
Understanding the violence against Alawites and Druze in Syria after Assad
A scholar of religious minorities and the Middle East explains the historical persecution and marginalization of the Alawite ...
The Christian Science Monitor2h
Should Israeli military defend Syrian Druze? Israel’s Druze are divided.
Amid sectarian violence in Syria in which hundreds of Druze were killed, Israel struck Damascus and issued a warning to the ...
Silence on Druze massacres in Syria echoes historical silence to the Holocaust | Opinion
The mass murder of the Druze is not a distant, regional crisis. It is a test of global conscience. Will we stop it?
Netanyahu, Druze spiritual leader meet in Jerusalem amid Syria ceasefire
This meeting comes ahead of Strategic Affairs Minister Ron Dermer's meeting with US Special Envoy to Syria Tom Barrack and ...
A Syrian American man is among members of the Druze community killed in sectarian clashes in Syria
A Syrian-American man of the Druze religious minority was killed in southern Syria when he got caught up in sectarian clashes ...
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The Druze: An insular faith, facing a fractured Middle East
At the center of a crisis in Syria are the Druze — a secretive religious minority that long carved out a precarious identity ...
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The Druze are a religious sect. Here's a look at their beliefs and history
The Druze religious sect, enmeshed in an outbreak of tit-for-tat violence in Syria, began roughly 1,000 years ago as an ...