More than 20,000 Druze live in the Golan Heights. Most of them identify as Syrian and rejected an offer of Israeli citizenship when Israel seized the region in 1967.

In Israel, the Druze population numbers approximately 150,000, making up about 1.6% of the country’s total population. They are mainly concentrated in the northern regions, including the Galilee and ...

More than 20,000 Druze live in the Golan Heights. Most of them identify as Syrian and rejected an offer of Israeli citizenship when Israel seized the region in 1967.

A rocket attack on a Druze village in the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights that killed 11 people, including children, has brought attention to the secretive religious and ethnic group.

And when Israel captured the Golan Heights after the 1967 war here, the Druze community became separated between Israel and Syria. Historically, the Druze philosophy has been to try to live at ...

MAJDAL SHAMS, Golan Heights (AP) — Dozens of clerics and others from Syria’s minority Druze community crossed into the Israeli-controlled side of the Golan Heights Friday for the first time in decades ...

Voor het eerst in decennia staken namelijk bijna honderd Syrische Druzen de grens over naar de Golan. De vlakte, die door Israël illegaal geannexeerd is en aan Syrië grenst, ...

Maar de druzen op de Golan zijn, in tegenstelling tot hun geloofsgenoten in Galilea, geen Israëlische staatsburgers. De Golanhoogvlakte, een heuvelachtig gebied ter grootte van de provincie ...

Israel says its recent strikes and incursions in Syria are to protect the Druze religious group. Some in the community welcome it, but some say they're being used to further Israel's political goals.