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

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

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

The Druze faith has deep connection to Greek philosophy, especially Pythagorean and Platonic thought, and its belief in ...

Hundreds of people have been killed in days of violence in southern Syria which began with clashes between members of the ...

The Druze hold that members of their faith who die suddenly — including those murdered or killed by accident — are immediately reincarnated as newborn babies.

The long persecuted minority has been at the centre of a recent bout of sectarian violence in Syria, which saw the IDF bomb Damascus in support of the community ...

Nawaf Nasr, a 78-year-old member of Syria's Druze community, holds a creased black-and-white photo that he says shows him on horseback in a previous life before he died. The Druze religion holds that ...

Nawaf Nasr, a 78-year-old member of Syria's Druze community, holds a creased black-and-white photo that he says shows him on horseback in a previous life before he died. The Druze religion holds ...

World | NPR Syrian Druze recall what they believe to be past lives — even vivid details In Syria's large Druze minority, a belief in reincarnation binds the community together.