A man waving the Druze flag near a community shrine in the Lebanese village of Sharoun, on July 16, 2025. (Credit: Dany Moudallal/L'Orient-Le Jour)
In the Aley district's village of Sharoun, on Wednesday afternoon, an on-edge crowd of Druze — both religious figures and everyday people from around the country — walked along the road toward the Maqam al-Sharif community sanctuary.They'd just come out of a meeting organized by the Druze community's spiritual council, called in solidarity with the Druze in Syria who had been caught up in fighting since Sunday. Later that evening, a cease-fire was announced, the second since fighting began. And again, by Friday morning, the cease-fire would once again be broken, and fighting resumed.Some of the Druze walking along the Sharoun roads said they'd expected some sort of "route" to be established by which they could go to Sweida and fight alongside their Syrian "brothers," but the meeting bore no such plan....
In the Aley district's village of Sharoun, on Wednesday afternoon, an on-edge crowd of Druze — both religious figures and everyday people from around the country — walked along the road toward the Maqam al-Sharif community sanctuary.They'd just come out of a meeting organized by the Druze community's spiritual council, called in solidarity with the Druze in Syria who had been caught up in fighting since Sunday. Later that evening, a cease-fire was announced, the second since fighting began. And again, by Friday morning, the cease-fire would once again be broken, and fighting resumed.Some of the Druze walking along the Sharoun roads said they'd expected some sort of "route" to be established by which they could go to Sweida and fight alongside their Syrian "brothers," but the meeting bore no such...
