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

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

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

The officer talks about becoming an IAF tactical fighter crewman and reflects on the crisis between his people and the new regime in Syria.

Each has been embodied in “spiritual dignitaries” throughout history, who the Druze esteem as prophets—consistent with but differing from the traditional figures of Christianity and Islam.

The Druze religion holds that reincarnation is a path to spiritual purification. SWEIDA, Syria — Nawaf Nasr, 78, holds a creased black-and-white photo showing what he believes is himself in a ...

When the Syrian civil war erupted in March 2011, Syrian Druze were targeted at times by both the Assad regime, which ...

The Druze hold that members of their faith who die suddenly — including those murdered or killed by accident — are immediately reincarnated as newborn babies. A previous life remembered Nasr says in ...

SWEIDA, Syria — Nawaf Nasr, 78, holds a creased black-and-white photo showing what he believes is himself in a previous life. The image, from the 1940s, shows a serious-looking young man wearing an ...