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Innocent people ‘raped and slaughtered’ in Druze clash
Tom Barrack, who is the US ambassador to Turkey and Special Envoy to Syria and is aiding ceasefire talks, said the deal had ...
Who are the Druze and why is Israel claiming to protect them by attacking Syria?
Scores of people have been killed in Syria's southern governorate of Suwayda after clashes began between local Sunni Bedouin ...
Turmoil gives Druze divided between Syria and Israel rare moment of contact
Hundreds of Druze from Israel pushed across the border in solidarity with their Syrian cousins they feared were under attack.
‘They executed him then called his wife to brag’: Inside the Druze city ravaged by militias
Dr Talat Amer, a surgeon at Sweida National Hospital in southern Syria, worked tirelessly for three days as bombs fell and ...
Who are the Druze? Religious group aids Syrian members under Islamist attack, Israeli members offer support
Israeli military responds to protect Syrian Druze from Islamist militants as local Druze citizens cross the border to aid ...
The Druze: An insular faith, facing a fractured Middle East
At the center of a crisis in Syria are the Druze — a secretive religious minority that long carved out a precarious identity ...
Syrian Druze writer calls what’s happening in southern Syria ‘chaos killings’
As a fragile ceasefire holds in southern Syria following deadly clashes, a Syrian Druze writer in exile Sarah Hunaidi tells ...
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The Druze are a religious sect. Here's a look at their beliefs and history
The Druze religious sect, enmeshed in an outbreak of tit-for-tat violence in Syria, began roughly 1,000 years ago as an ...