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Clashes broke out in a suburb of the Syrian capital early Tuesday between local gunmen belonging to the minority Druze sect ...
With the fall of Bashar al-Assad's government and the rise of Abu Muhammad al-Julani's regime in Syria, it is becoming increasingly clear that the map of the country's power ... declaring its ...
Binyamin Netanyahu, the Israeli prime minister, has also invoked the rights of Syria’s Druze minority to demand ... show that Mr Sharaa cannot be trusted. Map: The Economist Mr Sharaa and ...
though some sort of rapprochement may be possible with Syria’s Kurdish and Druze minorities. “But I think they are hopeful of a Middle East where there will be less regimes hostile to Israel ...
Watching TV today, I see places in Syria I know so well. I doubt I’ll ever visit them again. On rare breaks from work, my wife and I relied on hand-drawn maps to get around the country.
Hundreds of Druze clerics crossed the Syria border into Israel on Friday for an overnight visit to celebrate the holiday of Ziyara at the tomb of Nabi Shuaib in the Lower Galilee, marking the ...
Hundreds of clerics from Syria's Druze minority on Friday are heading to Israel where they will conduct a pilgrimage to a sacred shrine, the second such visit since longtime ruler Bashar al-Assad ...
Three days after a spate of killings targeting another minority in Latakia, Druze leaders evacuated more than 1,200 students from universities along the Mediterranean. They arrived to safety late ...
SWEIDA, Syria — The road from Damascus to Sweida winds through outcrops of black volcanic rock, past rainfed vineyards and olive groves and up to the Mountain of the Druze — a natural fortress ...
Buses carrying Druze from Syria crossed into the Israeli controlled area of the Golan Heights on Friday, in a trip by the embattled minority to visit a religious shrine located inside Israel. This ...