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) ...

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 ...

Soldiers from the soon-to-be disbanded Battalion 299 in the field with the Druze flag (Courtesy IDF/ Flickr) Very few, though, seek to serve in the all-Druze unit, Battalion 299, ...

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

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 ...

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 ...