Syria’s Druze community, centered around the southern Suwayda Governorate, is undergoing substantial unrest lately, with Sheikh al-Aql Hikmat al-Hijri, one of the religious minority’s top three spiritual leaders, declaring the Druze community to be an “integral part of the State of Israel.”

Syria’s Druze community, centered around the southern Suwayda Governorate, is undergoing substantial unrest lately, with Sheikh al-Aql Hikmat al-Hijri, one of the religious minority’s top three spiritual leaders, declaring the Druze community to be an “integral part of the State of Israel.” Israel has its own relatively small Druze minority, chiefly in the occupied Golan […]

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