"Jihad against Druze" and "we are going to kill you, Druze," the men were shouting. She did not know who the men were - ...

Discover the fascinating world of the Druze—a unique ethno-religious group rooted in the Middle East. Learn about their ...

Ottoman century? With Iran, Iraq, Syria, and Lebanon all weak, the region’s reconstruction in ways that permit peace, ...

Opinion Israel Israel's Druze equation Column Jean-Pierre Filiu Historian and professor at Sciences Po Paris The Israeli government, after having used the Druze minority to divide the Palestinian ...

Pained and angered by deadly clashes between Islamist and Druze gunmen in Syria in recent weeks, leaders of Israel's own Druze minority say the Israeli military was right to intervene to defend ...

The Druze religion teaches its adherents to be loyal to whatever state they live in. As a result, Lebanese Druze are loyal to Lebanon, Israeli Druze are loyal to Israel and so forth.

The Druze became central figures in a recent, startling episode in the Middle East. Israel sent warplanes and troops into Syria to defend this Arab religious minority, attacking the armed groups ...

SWEIDA, Syria — Nervous Druze militiamen at checkpoints in southern Syria craned their necks in recent days to look inside stopped vehicles, sizing up drivers and bracing for new threats ...

Israel says its recent strikes and incursions in Syria are to protect the Druze religious group. Some in the community welcome it, but some say they're being used to further Israel's political goals.

So the Druze are a religious minority, an offshoot from Shia Islam. And when Israel captured the Golan Heights after the 1967 war here, the Druze community became separated between Israel and Syria.

AL-SHALCHI: Right. So the Druze are a religious minority, an offshoot from Shia Islam. And when Israel captured the Golan Heights after the 1967 war here, the Druze community became separated between ...

Some Druze see the new rulers of Syria as these hard-line Islamists, and some of the armed factions in that new government see the Druze as heretics. KELLY: Well tell us what you see, what you're ...