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Located near Tiberias in northern Israel in the Lower Galilee, the village of Kfar Kama is home to one of the oldest communities in the world: the Circassians. Between tradition and modernity, the ...

Winter sports don’t command much of a following in a Middle East more familiar with sand than snow, but one of the region’s lesser-known minorities will be glued to its TV screens when the Olympics ...

Russian authorities have arrested a prominent community leader from the country’s Circassian ethnic minority. The arrest took place on Friday night in the same province where the Winter Olympics are ...

BOLSHOI KICHMAI, Russia (AP) — While Vladimir Putin and rich Olympic sponsors watch the Winter Games in gleaming arenas, boys in nearby Bolshoi Kichmai herd their goats by tying them to rickety ...

Last July, Doku Umarov, a shadowy militant leader operating in Russia’s North Caucasus, urged Muslims through a video message to launch attacks on the Winter Olympics, which begin this week in the ...