Syria has witnessed remarkable developments in recent days, with Israel taking a new approach that goes beyond traditional security arrang ...

Israel has pushed troops further into parts of southern Syria, citing the need to secure its borders from armed groups as Arab leaders and Iran have accused Israel of attempting to seize territory by ...

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This story appears in the March 2014 issue of National Geographic ... of 2013, Syria’s bloody and complex civil war had displaced some nine million men, women, and children (view map).