Bashar Assad – Charm

As the world convulses in war and contentiousness, its leaders convene at the UN to figure it out

Cs news7 months ago011 mins

TANZANIA – World leaders begin convening Monday at one of the most volatile moments in the United Nations’ 80-year history, and the challenges they face are as dire as ever if not more so: unyielding wars in Gaza and Ukraine, escalating changes in the U.S. approach to the world, hungry people everywhere and technologies that…

The Druze are a religious sect. Here’s a look at their beliefs and history

Cs news9 months ago05 mins

The Druze religious sect, enmeshed in an outbreak of tit-for-tat violence in Syria, began roughly 1,000 years ago as an offshoot of Ismailism, a branch of Shiite Islam. Most Druze religious practices are shrouded in secrecy, with outsiders not allowed to convert and intermarriage strongly discouraged. More than half the roughly 1 million Druze worldwide…