Israeli Druze proudly wave their own national flag alongside the Israeli flag in festivals and ceremonies, the writer points out. (photo credit: AMMAR AWAD/REUTERS) ...

Indeed, for them and other diaspora Druze, the Druze state would not likely be a geographical home but a national homeland – somewhat akin to what the Jewish state is to Diaspora Jews.

A protester stands atop a car waving the Druze flag during a demonstration in northern Israel calling for the government to help the Druze community in Syria amid sectarian violence, May 1, 2025.

Druze fighters ride on a pickup truck holding a Druze flag as they wait for Syrian government security forces on the streets of the town of Jaramana, in the southern outskirts of Damascus, Syria ...

JARAMANA, Syria (AP) — Syria’s Druze minority has a long history of cutting their own path to survive among the country’s powerhouses. They are now trying again to navigate a new, uncertain ...

Druze activist Khalifa Khalifa dreams of a friendly Druze autonomy in southern Syria as a response to the Assad regime’s deadly campaign.

Israeli soldiers draped in the Israeli flag and the Druze flag. Photo by Aviv Levi/STUDIO A.L. via Shutterstock.com. Many Druze have distinguished themselves in various conflicts, including the ...

An elderly Druze man stands near Syria's new flag and the multi-colored flag of the Islamic offshoot in Al Karama Square where daily protests took place for over a year in the city of Sweida ...

The Arabic-speaking Druze community straddles the border between two countries—and, like Israel, fears Islamists.

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 ...