The Druze are a key religious minority in Syria. They comprise only 3% of the country's population, which is predominantly Sunni Muslim, but their fierce independence and militia control of their ...

One of them is the Druze religious minority. It says it is keeping its weapons because it is distrustful of the new government and fears sectarian attacks. NPR's Jane Arraf reports from the ...

Mustafa Bekkur, governor of Suwayda province in southern Syria, said the Druze-majority region remains calm despite Israel's provocations, emphasizing that its people are Syrians and patriotic and ...

“They’ll be willing substitutes,” says Mahmoud Shanan, a Druze lawyer and former Israeli ... project Israel’s influence from north-west Africa across to Iran. After a string of battlefield ...

In Syria, the new government's effort to disband militias and create a national army has run into roadblocks. One of them is the Druze religious minority. It says it is keeping its weapons because it ...