Israel sees Assad's fall as a chance to revive the idea of a Druze state, stoke sectarianism in Syria and seize more land. If Syria stands united, these plans are doomed to fail Druze women near ...

Data obtained by Shomrim reveals that the number of citizenship applications in the Israeli Golan Heights remains at a historic high. Over 20 percent of Golan Druze hold Israeli citizenship ...

Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) entered several villages, many with Druze majorities, disarmed residents, and then began withdrawing. The Druze population, spread across Syria, Lebanon, and Israel ...

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 ...

Six Druze villages, in the portion of the Golan Heights occupied by what was formerly Syria, have reportedly decided to request that Israel annex their village. Many have family and friends in the ...

This comes after Druze residents of Syria's Hader, near the Israeli border in southern Syria ... continuity of their daily lives in Quneitra, a district partially within the buffer zone.

The leader of Syria’s Druze, Sheikh Hikmat al-Hijri, has condemned Israel’s invasion of Syria and said his country needs to maintain its social and territorial unity. Speaking to Middle East ...

MAJDAL SHAMS—For decades after Israel conquered the Golan Heights, the minority Druze community that lives in this mountainside village considered themselves Syrians. But for many younger Druze ...

Wiam Wahhab, a Druze Lebanese politician and former minister, said in an interview on Sunday that Lebanon should end its long-running fight against the State of Israel and pursue normalization.

Druze living in Syria have offered Israel help in its war in the Gaza Strip, former communication minister and Likud MK Ayoub Kara told Radio 103FM on Monday. "There was a delegation from the ...

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