The Druze religious sect, enmeshed in an outbreak of tit-for-tat violence in Syria, began roughly 1,000 years ago as an ...

The Druze are a prominent religious community of more than a million people spread across Syria, Lebanon and Israel, who for ...

The Druze established strongholds in the mountainous areas of the region that includes Lebanon and Syria, where they continued to practice their faith in relative isolation over the generations.

The Deputy Chief of Mission of Israel in India, Fares Saeb in a video message explained the history of Druze people, as the ...

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The Druze religion holds that reincarnation is a path to spiritual purification. SWEIDA, Syria — Nawaf Nasr, 78, holds a creased black-and-white photo showing what he believes is himself in a ...

Omid Safi, in a column about Druze lawyer Amal Alamduddin, offered an in-depth look at the tiny faith, which has 1 to 2 million members worldwide. Alamduddin, who is George Clooney's fiancé ...

SWEIDA, Syria — Nawaf Nasr, 78, holds a creased black-and-white photo showing what he believes is himself in a previous life. The image, from the 1940s, shows a serious-looking young man wearing an ...

SWEIDA, Syria — Nawaf Nasr, 78, holds a creased black-and-white photo showing what he believes is himself in a previous life. The image, from the 1940s, shows a serious-looking young man wearing ...