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

Israeli forces have pushed into Syria south of the capital Damascus and said they will remain there indefinitely.

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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).