The Druze, a religious sect with roots in Ismailism, have faced violence in Syria. Their practices are secretive, with no ...

Discover the hidden world of the Druze — a secretive and ancient faith caught at the crossroads of the brutal Syria-Israel ...

The Druze religion is characterized by a strict monotheism and a belief in the transmigration of souls—which holds that human souls are reincarnated in successive bodies.

The religion was founded by a group of followers of the sixth Fatimid caliph in Egypt, al-Hakim bi-Amr Allah. Al-Hakim was later deified by the Druze as a central figure in their belief system.

At the center of a crisis in Syria are the Druze — a secretive religious minority that long carved out a precarious identity ...

On July 25, 2018, ISIS-linked terrorists stormed the Druze-majority city of Suwayda, launching gunfights and suicide bombings that claimed the lives of at least 258 people, most of them civilians.

Like Nasr, Druze who believe they are reincarnated normally come to that awareness as small children. In a fashionable villa in Sweida, a 60-year-old woman describes learning to speak before she ...

Presenting the main tenets of their faith, it describes in detail how the sect emerged from mainstream Islam, named derogatorily after an early preacher deemed a heretic by Muslims and Druze alike.

Druze residents of the Israeli-annexed Golan Heights distanced themselves Tuesday from Israeli threats to retaliate against Lebanon's Hezbollah group for a deadly rocket strike on a Druze Arab town in ...

The Druze faith was influenced by the Quran and Christianity and Judaism, but also Greek philosophy and Eastern mysticism, according to the American Druze Foundation. 5.