The Druze are a people and religion of around one million people globally, and the faith can trace its origins back to the Levant region, the name for the area including Israel, Syria, Lebanon and ...

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'I met the leader of this religion of one million people which produces feared warriors' EXCLUSIVE: This Middle-Eastern faith has roots in Islam but there are many key differences.

DAMASCUS The spiritual leader of the Druze community expressed Syrians’ desire to establish a state that upholds the rule of law, embraces all its citizens and safeguards Syria’s sovereignty ...

The unrest began with a series of tit-for-tat kidnappings between members of the Druze religious minority and Sunni Bedouin clans.View on euronews ...

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 ...

True, there were occasional exceptions—people with their own interests who damaged the good relations—but throughout history, the Druze have paid a heavy price to defend Israel.

Deadly clashes in Damascus this week between members of Syria’s Druze community and gunmen linked to the national authorities highlight how members of the minority group are increasingly faced ...

A leader of Syria’s Druze minority has condemned attacks against his community after dozens of people were killed in two days of sectarian clashes south of Damascus. Sheikh Hikmat al-Hijri on ...

But the spiritual leader of Syria's Druze community, Sheikh Hikmat al-Hijri, condemned the violence as an "unjustifiable genocidal campaign" and said people had been defending their homes from ...

Secretive minority The Druze community accounted for around three percent of Syria's pre-war population of 23 million, or around 700,000 people.