The Druze religion grew out of Ismaili Shia Islam in the 11th century but has evolved to include aspects of other religions, including Hinduism, as well as ancient philosophies. The faith believes ...

The shocking bloodshed unified the Druze across the region in grief – and laid bare the complex identity of the small, insular religious minority, whose members are spread across Israel ...

In-depth: The Druze community is navigating a complex path in post-Assad Syria, striving to preserve its autonomy and wary of ...

Most Druze religious practices are shrouded in secrecy, with outsiders not allowed to convert. Only glimpses are visible: women wearing traditional flowing white headscarves; men with round white ...

despite the fact that he happens to be from another faith. Days later, in the village of Qraya, two Druze cousins – Bassel and Khaldoun Shqair – were shot to death in an olive grove in an ...

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.

Closer to the Hermon, the town of Majdal Shams serves as the capital of the Golan’s Druze. According to the dictates of their opaque religion, Druze pay fealty to their home country — and ...

NICOSIA, Cyprus (AP) — As Syria begins recovering from 50 years of autocratic rule by the Assad family, an international ...

The residents of a Druze community in southern Syria have ... A video circulating on social media shows a gathering of the religious minority in the Syrian village of Hader, in the buffer zone ...

Israeli ministers reportedly discussed a plan to divide Syria into autonomous cantons, under the pretext of ‘protecting’ ...

The representatives reportedly came to discuss government services and the need to show that the new government is tolerant towards religious minorities ... as Jabal al-Druze - the Mountain ...