In the Druze worldview, this means the group is "capable of harmonising with various sects, religions and ethnicities.” Since 1043, the Druze religion has been closed to new converts.

The State Department confirmed the death of Hosam Saraya, a Syrian American from Oklahoma. He was killed in the country's Sweida region during deadly attacks against the Druze community.

Saraya, who had studied in Oklahoma before returning to Syria, belonged to the Druze community, an Arab religious group of roughly one million people who primarily live in Syria, Lebanon and Israel.

The Druze are a monotheistic religious community that split from a branch of Shiite Islam in the 11th century. Today, they live mainly in three countries: Lebanon, Syria and Israel, with a small ...

A Syrian Druze married to a Lebanese Druze, Rima speaks sorrowfully of a time when the region's main population groups - Druze, Sunni Muslims, Christians and Alawites - lived side by side.

PORTLAND, Ore. (KATU) — Members of the Syrian American community in Portland are mourning the loss of loved ones following violent clashes in southern Syria that have left the city of Sweida in ...

MAZRAA, Syria (AP) — Syria’s armed Bedouin clans announced Sunday they had withdrawn from the Druze-majority city of Sweida following weeklong clashes and a U.S.-brokered ceasefire, as ...

Relatives and officials say a Syrian-American man of the Druze religious minority is among dozens of civilians killed in sectarian clashes in southern Syria. The U.S. State Department confirmed on ...

BEIRUT — A Syrian-American man of the Druze religious minority was killed in southern Syria when he got caught up in sectarian clashes there last week while visiting family members, relatives ...

MAZRAA, Syria — Syria's armed Bedouin clans announced Sunday they had withdrawn from the Druze-majority city of Sweida following weeklong clashes and a U.S.-brokered ceasefire, as humanitarian aid ...