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The Druze religious sect, enmeshed in an outbreak of tit-for-tat violence in Syria, began roughly 1,000 years ago as an ...

Spread across Syria, Lebanon and Israel, the secretive religious minority has long balanced integration and independence. Now ...

Whether vast deserts or tiny island states, each of these countries with no river has found its own way to survive without ...

Israel’s war on Gaza has killed at least 58,573 people and wounded 139,607, according to Gaza’s Health Ministry. An estimated ...