Druze in Syria refers to adherents of the Druze faith, an ethnoreligious esoteric group originating from the Near East who self identify as unitarians (Muwahhideen).The Syrian Druze people are believed to constitute about 3% of the total population of Syria.The Syrian Druze accounted for an estimated 3 percent of the population (approximately 500 thousand persons). Other sources claim that the Syrian Druze community numbers 700,000.