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Despite their small number, the Bektashis are set to form the world’s newest country — a first-of-its-kind Islamic microstate ...
Despite his rhetoric about democracy and inclusivity, Syria’s new president is steering the country back toward military dictatorship.
Nikolas Farantouris had accused the EU High Representative of whitewashing the extremist Al-Jolani by not directly pointing ...
Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction.”- Blaise Pascal Since the fall of Bashar al-Assad’s regime ...
The new leadership vowed to disband all militias. But the fiercely independent Druze have made no agreement, and say they're ...
JEROME DREVON is Senior Analyst in Jihad and Modern Conflict at the International Crisis Group. He is the author of From ...
In a challenge to Syria's new government, an influential religious minority rejects calls to integrate its militias.
Druze spiritual leader Sheikh Hikmat al-Hijri has taken center stage in Suwayda since Assad fell last year, as the top figure ...
The strategic town saw ferocious battles during the Mountain War between Christians and Druze that began in the wake of the ...
Syrian activists in southern Syria's Suwayda city, where the majority are from the Druze religious community, staged a rally on Friday to protest the Israeli ground aggression on Syria's Daraa ...
Israel suspended the entry of Druze workers from villages in southern Syria into the occupied Golan Heights following an objection by one of its security agencies, local media said on Wednesday.