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Members of the Druze community hold flags, as they watch fighting in Syria’s ongoing civil war, next to the border fence between Syria and the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights, near the Druze village of Majdal Shams, June 16, 2015. Israel’s president expressed his concern to the United States last week about the fate of the Druze […]

Opinion: The Druze position is a challenge for Syria’s uprising

by Eyad Abu Shakra | Jun 17, 2015 | Opinion

The massacre recently committed by Al-Nusra Front elements in the village of Qalb Lozeh, in Idlib province in northwestern Syria, could not have come at a worse time, given the way the Syrian uprising is moving, and how it is developing. Here, I am not talking about...

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A Free Syrian Army fighter aims his weapon as he takes position in Aleppo’s Karm al-Jabal district on December 4, 2013. (Reuters/Saad AboBrahim)

Syria: Druze rebels deny “forced conversion” reports

by Asharq Al-Awsat | Dec 28, 2013 | Middle East

Beirut, Asharq Al-Awsat—Syrian Druze rebel leaders have denied media reports that Islamist rebels are forcing Syrian Druze villages in Idlib to publicly embrace Islam. Earlier this week, The Times of Israel reported that “Al-Qaeda fighters in Syria forced residents of...

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A picture taken on September 18, 2013 shows the road leading to Syria’s ancient Christian town of Maalula. Inter-sectarian violence has long troubled Syria. (AFP PHOTO/ANWAR AMRO)

Syria’s Brotherhood: Doomed to Repeat the Past

by Malik Al-Abdeh | Dec 3, 2013 | Majalla Blogs

In Istanbul last month, the Syrian branch of the Muslim Brotherhood launched a new political party known by its Arabic name, Waad (“Promise”). It will be led by Mohamed Walid, a Brotherhood figure, but his deputy will be Nabil Kasis, a Christian. The party will...