While strategic considerations were still in play, the heart of the decision lay in defending the extended family of Israel’s own Druze—a gesture shaped as much by kinship as by security. Israel has ...

A fragile ceasefire was put in place in southern Syria on July 19, 2025, after days of violence between Druze militias and Bedouin tribes that drew in government forces and prompted Israeli strikes on ...

The Druze religious sect, enmeshed in an outbreak of tit-for-tat violence in Syria, began roughly 1,000 years ago as an offshoot of Ismailism, a branch of Shiite Islam. Most Druze religious practices ...

After violent clashes between Druze and Bedouin militias erupted in Syria’s southern Suwayda region last week – killing over 1,000 people and displacing almost 130,000 others – the religious group has ...

The Druze have been making the headlines a lot lately. With Israel’s decisive airstrike on the Syrian regime to rescue persecuted Druze residents there, the Jewish state has made a move to stand by ...