Israeli military responds to protect Syrian Druze from Islamist militants as local Druze citizens cross the border to aid their brethren, prompting concerns from Israeli officials.

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Members of the Druze community in the Israeli-controlled Golan Heights gathered at the border with Syria Thursday morning, ...

Indeed, for them and other diaspora Druze, the Druze state would not likely be a geographical home but a national homeland – somewhat akin to what the Jewish state is to Diaspora Jews.

A rocket attack on a Druze village in the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights that killed 11 people, including children, has brought attention to the secretive religious and ethnic group. Who are the ...

The Arabic-speaking Druze community straddles the border between two countries—and, like Israel, fears Islamists.

More than a dozen people were killed in a predominantly Druze town near the Syrian capital on Tuesday in clashes sparked by a purported recording of a Druze man cursing the Prophet Mohammad, which ...

The Druze established strongholds in the mountainous areas of the region that includes Lebanon and Syria, where they continued to practice their faith in relative isolation over the generations.

Druze individuals rarely marry outside their faith (often practicing consanguinity) and are thus believed to form a genetic isolate. To comprehensively characterize the genetic structure of the ...

Druze residents near Syria's capital are resisting a demand by the Islamist-led government to hand in their light weapons, saying authorities have yet to address fears of new attacks by Sunni ...

For many of the Druze community in the Golan Heights mourning 12 youngsters killed in a missile strike at the weekend, the carnage came as a shock despite the months of daily rocket fire and air ...