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 ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. People stand next to a destroyed tank, following deadly clashes between Druze fighters, Sunni Bedouin tribes and government forces ...
JULIS, Galilee — Dr. Osama Sheikh, a Galilee Medical Center anesthesiologist, huddled in front of a computer with Tarik Sirhan, a data analyst, on a recent Wednesday afternoon in a war room set up in ...
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"We heard gunfire outside; we heard them calling out all the Druze. The neighbors. They killed them. We heard it," Angela—a pseudonym to protect her identity—told me over the phone. Angela recently ...
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Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Walid Jumblatt, the political leader of Lebanon's Druze minority, speaks in Beirut on July 18, 2025. AP Photo/Bilal Hussein ...
Syrian government security forces block Bedouin fighters, background, from entering Sweida province, in Busra al-Harir village, southern Syria on Sunday. (Omar Sanadiki | AP) MAZRAA, Syria — Syria's ...
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 ...
Thousand of people gather in Damascus, Syria, on Dec. 8 to celebrate the first anniversary of the fall of the government of President Bashar Assad. (Mohammad Daher / NurPhoto via Getty Images) Nestled ...
"We heard gunfire outside; we heard them calling out all the Druze. The neighbors. They killed them. We heard it," Angela—a pseudonym to protect her identity—told me over the phone. Angela recently ...