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 ...

Laila Nicola analyzes Israel's renewed interest in forging alliances with ethnic minorities in the Middle East.

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 ...

High in the mountains of the Israeli-controlled Golan Heights, the town of Majdal Shams is home to members of one of the Middle East’s most insular religious minorities: the Druze. MAJDAL SHAMS ...

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

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