A scholar of religious minorities and the Middle East explains the historical persecution and marginalization of the Alawite ...

The Druze, a religious sect with roots in Ismailism, have faced violence in Syria. Their practices are secretive, with no ...

Syria has been wracked by a new wave of deadly sectarian violence that has placed the spotlight on the Druze minority at the ...

Suwayda, the Druze community is facing what its members have described as an "ethnic cleansing campaign" amidst a rapidly deteriorating security situation that has claimed the lives of hundreds over ...

DUBAI — Syrian President Bashar Al-Assad is hiding behind the minorities as the bloody five-year conflict rages on, leading Druze expert Eyad Abu Shakra told Al Arabiya English this week. “I ...

According to Inbar, defending the Druze is also part of the new post-Assad geopolitical landscape in which Israel "is trying to protect the Druze and Kurdish minorities from the Sunni majority and ...

The Druze in Syria are, however, “very fragmented politically”, Lang said, due to years of life under the al-Assad dictatorship. “No distinct Druze leadership was allowed to emerge, and the ...