Maj. Gen. Alian, who is Israeli-Druze, heads the Coordinator of Government Activities in the Territories (COGAT), the IDF unit responsible for overseeing civilian policy in the West Bank.

A representative of the group, the Druse, recently went to Washington to meet with lawmakers, members of the Biden and Trump administrations and diplomats to plead their case. “We are very ...

The dictator has fallen in Syria, but what the new government will look like is still unclear. In this series, VOA’s Heather Murdock asks some in the country’s key minority groups what they ...

Sheikh Mowafaq Tarif, the spiritual leader of the Druze community in Israel, speaks at a Hudson Institute event in Washington, D.C., Jan. 8, 2025. The fall of Bashar Assad in Syria is opening new ...

Two Druze rebel groups in Syria declared on Monday their willingness to join a national army after anti-regime fighters ousted Bashar Assad last month. The new Syrian authorities face the mammoth ...

Against the backdrop of the wars in Gaza and Lebanon, the fall of the Assad regime, and the tragic death of 12 Druze children in Majdal Shams in a Hezbollah rocket attack, the number of Druze ...

Afef Abed, a member of Israel’s Druze minority, took Gallant’s seat in the Knesset on behalf of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s ruling Likud Party following Gallant’s departure ...

ERBIL, Kurdistan Region - The Druze reject Islamic rule and prefer a decentralized government in Syria, a commander from the minority group said on Sunday. “Religious and Islamic rule has only ...

Suwayda, from our correspondent. The procession of sheikhs marches toward the home of Hikmat al-Hijri, the spiritual leader of the Druze in Syria, known locally as Abu Salman. In Qanawat ...

With extensive experience testing a range of design apps, my team and I have put the best graphic design software to the test. And while it will comes as no surprise that Adobe Photoshop and ...