The Golan Heights is home to 24,000 Druze, an Arab minority who practice an offshoot of Islam and also live in Israel, Lebanon, Jordan and Syria.

JERUSALEM/BEIRUT: Israel struck Syrian Golan Heights with missiles in retaliation of the rockets that hit an Israeli village near the Lebanese border.

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. The nearly 100 Syrian Druze ...

(AP video shot by Alon Bernstein) Druze clerics stand near the border, as they wait for buses carrying members of the Syrian Druze community to cross from Syria in the village of Majdal Shams, in the ...

Nevertheless, a group of Druze from the Israeli-controlled Golan heights welcomed the Syrian Druze at the crossing point who waved the multi-colored flag of the religious minority, chanting in ...

Druze clerics stand near the border, as they wait for buses carrying members of the Syrian Druze community to cross from Syria in the village of Majdal Shams, in the Israeli-controlled Golan ...

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. The nearly 100 Syrian Druze ...

The Syrian Druze were a minority in the Assad era who mostly kept to themselves, with some past positive history with Israel. Druze from villages in northern Israel seen in Majdal Shams ...