The Druze are a small, secretive ethnoreligious community that emerged in the early 11th century in Egypt. They broke away from mainstream Islam during the rule of the Fatimid Caliph al-Hakim bi-Amr ...

All of these points point to a possibility of spillover. Israel has managed the Syrian conflict for the last decade and a half since it began in 2011. Sometimes there were clashes along the border.

Syria has been wracked by a new wave of deadly sectarian violence that has placed the spotlight on the Druze minority at the ...