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The Druze religious sect, enmeshed in an outbreak of tit-for-tat violence in Syria, began roughly 1,000 years ago as an ...
Dr Talat Amer, a surgeon at Sweida National Hospital in southern Syria, worked tirelessly for three days as bombs fell and ...
The Druze religious sect is an offshoot of Ismailism, a branch of Shiite Islam. About half of the roughly one million Druze ...
Tom Barrack, who is the US ambassador to Turkey and Special Envoy to Syria and is aiding ceasefire talks, said the deal had ...
Hundreds of Druze from Israel pushed across the border in solidarity with their Syrian cousins they feared were under attack.
Members of Syria's Druze community are searching for loved ones and counting their dead after days of clashes in a southern ...
Syria's Druze are concentrated in the southwest in the Sweida region bordering Jordan and in areas of Quneitra province, near ...
One woman tells the BBC she cowered in her home waiting for gunmen to enter and "decide whether we should live or die".
At the center of a crisis in Syria are the Druze — a secretive religious minority that long carved out a precarious identity ...
Syria should not be allowed back into the international community unless it is able to uphold protections for the Druze and ...
Syria's Islamist-led government said its security forces were deploying in the predominantly Druze southern city of Sweida on ...