Druze revolt: Why a tiny, loyal community is so infuriated by nation-state law While the Druze have been heavily integrated into Israel’s security sector, their communities have not reaped the ...

The Druze are a key religious minority in Syria. They comprise only 3% of the country’s population, which is predominantly Sunni Muslim, but their fierce independence and militia control of ...

Israel’s ‘loyal’ Druze move into open revolt. Druze army general leads protests to overturn nation-state law that makes explicit the privileged status of Jewish majority.

The new leadership vowed to disband all militias. But the fiercely independent Druze have made no agreement, and say they're gathering fighters and making plans to repel government forces if needed.

The Arabic-speaking Druze community straddles the border between two countries—and like Israel fears Islamists. ... a leader of the Arab revolt against the French rulers of Syria in the 1920s.

Some Druze in Syria took part in protests against Bashar al-Assad, Syria’s president, after a popular revolt against his authoritarian regime broke out in 2011.

After the 2011 revolt, the Druze remained largely on the sidelines of the civil war, though many young men from the community refused to be conscripted into the Syrian military.

The new leadership vowed to disband all militias. But the fiercely independent Druze have made no agreement, and say they're gathering fighters and making plans to repel government forces if needed.

The Druze have a long history of taking up arms from their mountain stronghold. A century ago, Sultan al-Atrash led the Great Syrian Revolt against French colonial rule, which eventually led to ...