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P icture, if you will, the Druze – a small, noble community perched on the rugged hills of the Levant. They are neither Muslim nor Christian, neither Arab nor Jew in the stricte ...
The Druze faith has deep connection to Greek philosophy, especially Pythagorean and Platonic thought, and its belief in ...
Members of Syria's Druze community are searching for loved ones and counting their dead after days of clashes in a southern ...
Leaders of the Syrian-Jewish community meet with President Herzog and propose new paths for dialogue and reconciliation with ...
Israel has struck military tanks in southern Syria, where government forces and Bedouin tribes clash with Druze militias.
In Jaramana, the largest Druze-majority district of Damascus, fear has taken root. Shops once buzzing with late-night customers now close before sundown. Streets grow silent after dark. Behind closed ...
And so the future of the Druze faith may depend not only on pairing up its youth — a community effort — but also on whether the religion itself can make accommodations to the modern world.
But within the community, the five pillars of Islam are spiritualized, and Druze will not regularly pray or fast but commit themselves instead to a moral code emphasizing loyalty, ...
The Druze, an Arab minority who practise a religion originally derived from Islam, ... we pray to God daily to achieve peace and to see the signs of peace over Lebanon, ...
Israeli Druze at a lookout point along the Syrian border on Dec. 8, 2024 as the government of then-President Bashar al-Assad collapsed. (TPS) As Bashar Assad’s government fell on Sunday, Israel ...
Sheikh Mowafaq Tarif said the visit by around 100 Syrian Druze religious elders on Friday would be the first to Israel in some 50 years, when a group came in the immediate aftermath of the 1973 ...