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Lebanese Druze leader Walid Jumblatt shakes hands with Syria's de facto leader Ahmed al-Sharaa, also known as Abu Mohammed al-Golani, after the ousting of Syria's Bashar al-Assad, in Damascus, Syria, December 22, 2024.

Syria's de facto ruler reassures minorities, meets Lebanese Druze leader

The Bab al-Hawa border crossing between Syria and Turkey, December 8, 2024.

Syrian Shi'ites and other minorities flee to Lebanon, fearing Islamist rule

Screen grab of Syrian Druze discussing a call to be annexed to Israel.

Syrian Druze call to be annexed to Israel: 'What's our fate, brothers?'

People take part in a protest against Syria's President Bashar al-Assad in the southern Druze city of Sweida, Syria, September 8, 2023.

Second front opens in southern Syria, as Druze militias rise up

By JERUSALEM POST STAFF , REUTERS , Yuval Barnea

Family and friends mourn during the funeral service of druze children who were killed at a soccer field from a missile fired from Lebanon, in the druze village of Majdal Shams, in the Golan Heights, July 28, 2024.

Lebanese Druze 'Appalled and heartbroken by Hezbollah’s Majdal Shams massacre'

The scene at the soccer field where a rocket crashed in Majdal Shams, July 27, 2024.

Lebanon, Hezbollah run from responsibility for Majdal Shams massacre

By SETH J. FRANTZMAN

"THE DRUZE saw themselves as part and parcel of the Syrian state, until the war began.' A Druze girl takes part in a rally over then-US president Donald Trump's support for Israeli soverignty over the Golan Heights, in Majdal Shams near the ceasefire line between Israel and Syria.

'I dream of liberated Druze land for brethren in Syria' - One activist's national aspirations

Syrian President Bashar Assad speaks to pro-Kremlin journalist Vladimir Sovolyov, March 2024.

Syrian Aid Group Accuses Russia of War Crimes in UN Complaint

By THE MEDIA LINE STAFF

"Approval Granted for extensive plan in Kfar Qasim: 1,450 apartments, vast commercial space"

Giant plan in Kafr Qasim approved as a solution to the Arab housing crisis

By Ofer Petersburg

SYRIAN PRESIDENT Bashar Assad attends the Arab League summit in Jeddah last month.

Thousands rally in Sweida, Syria, demanding end to Assad’s rule

By MOHAMMED AL-KASSIM/The Media Line

People take part in a protest against Syria's President Bashar al-Assad in the southern Druze city of Sweida, Syria, September 8, 2023.

Syrians tear down poster of Assad in Syria as protests swell

By SETH J. FRANTZMAN

THE DRUZE flag is prominently displayed at a protest on August 24 in Syria’s Sweida province against the Syrian government’s decision to increase the price of fuel.

Druze protests expose the Assad regime's Achilles' heel - opinion

By JONATHAN SPYER

SYRIAN PRESIDENT Bashar Assad attends the Arab League summit in Jeddah last month.

Druze protest Assad in Southern Syria, fueled by economic desperation, security challenges

By DEBBIE MOHNBLATT/THE MEDIA LINE

Demonstrators protest against the Syrian government decision on increasing the prices of fuels in Sweida, Syria, August 17,2023

Protests erupt in Syria's Druze city over fuel hikes

By REUTERS