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Col. Ehsan Daqsa, the Druze Arab who was the commanding officer of the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) 401st Armored Brigade, was killed in combat on Sunday when he was standing outside his tank and it was hit by an explosive device.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu paid a visit Monday to the town of Majdal Shams in the northern Golan Heights, where twelve children were killed by a Hezbollah rocket on Saturday while playing soccer in a local park.

Hundreds of Druze Israeli Arabs filled the streets of the town of Majdal Shams on Sunday in the northern Golan Heights for the funerals of eleven of the 12 children killed Saturday in a Hezbollah rocket attack.

Israel Defense Forces (IDF) Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Herzi Halevi rushed to the scene of Saturday evening’s Hezbollah attack on the Druze Arab town of Majdal Shams to comfort the community and assure them that Israel would respond powerfully.

Israel’s foreign minister, Israel Katz, said Saturday that Israel faces “all-out war” after a rocket fired by Hezbollah at the Israeli Druze Arab village of Majdal Shams killed at least 11 people, including children, on Saturday evening.

The Iran-backed terrorist organization Hezbollah is dragging Lebanon into a war with Israel at Tehran’s behest, according to Lebanese Christian Maronite MP Camille Dory Chamoun, who declared that three-quarters of Lebanese people oppose Hezbollah, and that Sunnis, Druze, and Christians will unite to act in defense of Lebanon’s interests against Hezbollah’s actions, and can even mobilize 20,000 fighters to do so if necessary.

A Druze Arab Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) officer, Captain Wassem Mahmoud, was killed Saturday in Rafah, in southern Gaza, along with seven other soldiers, when their armored personnel carrier was hit by an explosive device.

Lt. Col. Salman Habaka, 33, was many things: the first Druze Arab tank commander in the Israel Defense Forces (IDF); a husband, and a father; a devoted fan of the Maccabi Haifa soccer team; and a hero who saved countless lives. Most of all, he was loved. Deeply loved.

Lt. Col. Salman Habaka, a career officer in the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) who helped liberate Kibbutz Be’eri from Palestinian Hamas terrorists on October 7, was killed Wednesday while leading an armored column covering for infantry in northern Gaza.

Anti-government protests in the Druze region of Syria enter their second week with dictator Bashar Assad burned in effigy.

The body of an Israeli teenager who was kidnapped by Palestinian gunmen from a hospital in the northern West Bank city of Jenin after his car crashed was returned to his family Thursday. He was finally laid to rest later that day.

The new Israeli government that will be sworn in on Monday is set to include an Arab Party, Ra’am, in a significant role for the first time.

Syrian dictator Bashar Assad fired Prime Minister Imad Khamis on Thursday without explanation as Syria’s economy teeters on the edge of a meltdown and public anger spirals out of control, shaking a brutal regime that seemed to have consolidated its grip on power with Russian and Iranian assistance after a decade-long civil war.

Syria’s SANA state news agency celebrated on Sunday the few dozen protesters who gathered in Druze villages in the Golan on Saturday.

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BEIRUT, Lebanon — Dozens of Islamic State group fighters were cornered in a pocket of Syria’s Daraa on Tuesday after losing all other territory there to a Russian-backed regime assault, a monitor said.

An Islamic State raid last week resulted not only in the deaths of hundreds of locals in Sweida, southern Syria, but the abduction of at least three dozen women and children, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR) announced on Monday.

Contents: Islamic state terror attack kills hundreds of Druze in southern Syria plus a history of the Druze religion.

BEIRUT – The death toll in coordinated Islamic State group attacks in Syria’s Sweida neared 250 on Thursday, the Druze-majority province’s heaviest loss of life of the seven-year civil war.

Pro-Israeli activists were heckled and one was accosted by pro-Palestinian activists during an event held at a New York synagogue.

LOS ANGELES, California — Four Israel Defense Force (IDF) reservists from the country’s non-Jewish religious minorities praised their military service and their country at the American Jewish University on Sunday night.

Brig. Gen. Dr. Tarif Bader was sworn in Thursday as the IDF’s chief medical officer, marking the first time in Israel’s history that the position is manned by a Druze officer. Bader replaced Brig. Gen. Dr. David Dagan, who served in the post for three years.

WASHINGTON, D.C. — A Hebrew-language music video urging Palestinians, Arabs and Muslims to “tear” apart and “kill” Israeli Jews has begun circulating over Palestinian social media in the wake of the July 14 shooting death of two Israeli Druze policeman after Israeli Arab terrorists smuggled guns onto the Temple Mount complex and opened fire.

TEL AVIV — Israel “is the best place to live for the Druze minority,” declared Shachiv Shnaan, a member of Israeli’s Druze community and a former Israeli Knesset member in an interview with Breitbart Jerusalem.

Hundreds of Druze in the Golan Heights marched Monday for Syrian independence day, carrying portraits of President Bashar Assad and chanting anti-Israel slogans.

TEL AVIV – A leader of the Druze population in the Golan Heights refuted a United Nations statement accusing Israel of imposing economic and social hardships on his community, saying it was “a total joke” and that the UN should instead concern itself with real human rights violation such as those happening in neighboring Syria.

Contents: Arab countries seek to overturn the century old Sykes-Picot agreement; Syria: A victim of colonial politics; Palestine: Sykes-Picot and Balfour Declaration left a ‘savage legacy’; Lebanon: Survived Sykes-Picot largely intact

Saladin, Napoleon and now… Netanyahu? An Israeli government plan to build a new town near the site of a historic battle between crusaders and Muslim icon Saladin — and where Napoleon also fought many years later — has itself come under

TEL AVIV – A Druze security guard shot and killed a Palestinian terrorist after the latter fatally stabbed an Israeli woman in the West Bank on Monday. Akhsan Kherev, a local security guard, said he arrived at the scene after hearing

Contents: Greece’s chaos continues as banks are closed; Turkey considers invasion of Syria to prevent a Kurdish state; Jordan makes plans for Syria invasion to protect its northern border

Contents: Druze community split on Syria war after al-Nusra attack; History of the Druze religion; Jihadist Attack on Druze population could bring Israel into Syria war

Israel’s ethno-religious Druze community is calling on Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to bomb Islamic State jihadists in Syria who continue to encroach upon Israeli territory. Not only are they moving closer to Israel, ISIS fighters are also threatening the Syrian Druze community, who remain dangerously vulnerable to an assault, Israeli Druze leaders warned.