Syria’s Druze are mostly split between the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights and Mount Hermon, Sweida (in an area called Jabal al-Druze, or Mountain ... in early March on Alawite – another ...

Nawaf Nasr, 78, sits at home in Syria's Sweida district and recalls details of what he says was his past life before he died ...

Sweida, built around a volcanic mountain, has been inhabited for ... body or being is shared by multiple religions. (In Syria, Alawites — another religious minority that, like the Druze, began ...

forcing surviving Alawites into the mountains where many were later hunted down and killed in rural areas. These massacres were instrumental in reducing the Alawite population to a marginalized ...