The Druze religious sect, enmeshed in an outbreak of tit-for-tat violence in Syria, began roughly 1,000 years ago as an ...

Sharaa's hopes of stitching Syria back together under the rule of his Islamist-led government are complicated by the ...

The Druze, a religious sect with roots in Ismailism and a storied history in Syria, maintain secrecy and discourage ...

The White House is attributing the outbreak of violence in the Middle East between the Syrian government and Israel to a ...

At the center of a crisis in Syria are the Druze — a secretive religious minority that long carved out a precarious identity ...

A fresh ceasefire agreement has been brokered between Syrian government officials and leaders of the Druze religious minority on Wednesday - the second truce in as many days, after the first collapsed ...

Syria border was breached, heartwarming family reunions decades in the making ensued for a number of hours, on both sides of the fence. But the happiness was still tempered by fear over the conflict.

There is also a small Druze community in the Philadelphia area. The American Druze Society has 20 regional chapters, including in Philadelphia and the tri-state area.

Majdal Shams is a Druze town. Here is a quick look at the community at the centre of the attack: Who are the Druze? The Druze are an ethnoreligious minority that largely identifies as Arab and is ...

Abu Saleh is part of the Druze community living on the Israeli side of the border. It's a close-knit religious minority - an offshoot of Shia Islam. Many have family in Syria.

But Majdal Shams is home to a community whose relationship with Israel is doubly complicated: Druze residents of the Golan Heights, which Israel captured in 1967 and annexed in 1981.