Armed tribes supported by Syria's Islamist-led government clashed with Druze fighters outside Sweida Friday a day after government troops withdrew from the Druze-majority city, the warring parties said.

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The millennia-old history of the marshes -- the reputed home of the biblical Garden of Eden -- "would end" with a new oilfield

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After another hellish day in Lebanon, after weeks of strikes and destruction, Israel has approved a 60-day ceasefire deal.