Arab Druze community in mourning after tragic rocket strike on Golan Heights soccer field − highlighting challenges for Druze within Israel and the region Story by Rami Zeedan, Associate ...

The community mostly lives in the area of Suwayda, a city in an area called Jebel Druze or the Hauran. This area is located in southern Syria near the Jordanian border.

Majdal Shams is a Druze town. Here is a quick look at the community at the centre of the attack: Who are the Druze? The Druze are an ethnoreligious minority that largely identifies as Arab and is ...

The Druze are a small, little-known community of approximately 1.5 million, two-thirds of whom are spread out in Syria, Lebanon, and Israel, where their community numbers around 130,000 or roughly 1.4 ...

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.

Members of Israel’s Druze community participate in a rally against the country’s new nation-state law in Tel Aviv on Saturday. (Sebastian Scheiner / Associated Press) ...

Syrian Druze community pleas for int'l assistance as sectarian violence continues "We no longer trust the body that calls itself a government," Hakmat Al-Hajeri, a leader in Syria’s Druze ...

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But Majdal Shams is home to a community whose relationship with Israel is doubly complicated: Druze residents of the Golan Heights, which Israel captured in 1967 and annexed in 1981.