Why would these Druze communities—non-Jewish minorities—want to join Israel? Because they understand something the world refuses to acknowledge: Israel is the only place in the Middle East ...

Why would these Druze communities—non-Jewish minorities—want to join Israel? Because they understand something the world refuses to acknowledge: Israel is the only place in the Middle East ...

In-depth: The Druze community is navigating a complex path in post-Assad Syria, striving to preserve its autonomy and wary of ...

In 1982 an uprising in the city of Hama by the Muslim Brotherhood, a Sunni Islamist group originating in Egypt, challenged ...

ERBIL, Kurdistan Region - The people of the southern Druze-majority Suwayda province will demand federalism in the face of aggression and for allowing Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) fighters to ...

We, as Syrians, do not want war, we do not seek it; we want peace,' Hikmet Selman al-Hijri tells Anadolu The Druze community stage ... crises in both western and eastern Syria.

The Middle East − cradle of civilizations − is in deep crisis swamped in ignorance, autocracy, corruption, violence and oppression. Like many other children of the region, I am still rejoicing with ...

Sheikh Mowafaq Tarif, the spiritual leader of the Druze community in Israel, speaks at a Hudson Institute event in Washington, D.C., Jan. 8, 2025. The fall of Bashar Assad in Syria is opening new ...

ERBIL, Kurdistan Region - The Druze reject Islamic rule and prefer a decentralized government in Syria, a commander from the minority group said on Sunday. “Religious and Islamic rule has only ...

Julani's control over Syria is not yet complete: the semi-autonomous Kurdish region in the east, constantly targeted ... the prominent Druze political leader in Lebanon, Walid Jumblatt, also ...

But in the southwestern town of Suwayda, a small group of Druze fighters are reluctant to give up their arms. Fighters from religious minority say they prefer to rely on their own men, rather than ...