The Druze are Arabs but not Muslims. Their religion originated as an offshoot of Islam about 1,000 years ago, but it quickly became very different in its precepts, which include a belief in ...

Arab Druze community in mourning after tragic rocket strike on Golan Heights soccer field − highlighting challenges for Druze within Israel and the region. Story by Rami Zeedan, ...

Allies of the new Syrian government and other non-state actors have continued violence and discrimination against Christians ...

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 ...

In Syria's large Druze minority, a belief in reincarnation binds the community together. ... shows a serious-looking young man wearing an Arab headdress and a suit jacket astride a white horse.

There are an estimated 700,000 Druze in Syria, making them the country's third-largest religious group; there are also around 230,000 in Lebanon and 25,000 in Jordan. Israel and the Palestinian ...

Like Nasr, Druze who believe they are reincarnated normally come to that awareness as small children. In a fashionable villa in Sweida, a 60-year-old woman describes learning to speak before she ...

The Druze are Arabs but not Muslims. Their religion originated as an offshoot of Islam about 1,000 years ago, but it quickly became very different in its precepts, which include a belief in ...

The Druze are Arabs but not Muslims. Their religion originated as an offshoot of Islam about 1,000 years ago, but it quickly became very different in its precepts, which include a belief in ...

Like other Arabs in Israel, however, the Druze face disparities in employment, income and access to essential services compared with Jewish Israelis.