After violent clashes between Druze and Bedouin militias erupted in Syria’s southern Suwayda region last week – killing over 1,000 people and displacing almost 130,000 others – the religious group has been cast into the global spotlight.
Despite the violence, one of the three Druze religious leaders, Hekmat Al-Hijri, said in an interview with Euronews that the group was formed by “peaceful people who have never attacked anyone in the past” on three foundational tenets.
