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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has ordered a brief freeze in construction on a wind turbine project in the Israeli-controlled Golan Heights that set off a rare clash between Druze residents and police.

Dona-Maria Nammour was looking for a love story. The night she met Mazen Jaber for the first time, they ended up dancing for hours.

When Eden Cami closes her eyes and starts singing ancient tunes in Arabic and Hebrew, Jewish-Israeli bassist Or Rozenfeld plays the contrabass, and Syrian band member Wassim Mukdad creates sparkling sounds on his 12-string oud, they take their audience on a musical journey through the Middle East.

Some 1,745,614 vehicles used the newly opened Istanbul-İzmir highway during the period of Aug. 10 - 18, covering the Eid al-Adha holiday, Transportation and Infrastructure Minister Cahit Turhan has said.

This week's Muslim holiday of Eid al-Adha was intended to follow the tradition of sacrificing and distributing the meat of farm animals, but many amateur Turkish butchers were hurt by their lack of experience. 

The Turkiye Diyanet Foundation (TDV) distributed more than 453,000 portions of sacrificial meat to millions of needy families globally during Eid al-Adha, a major Muslim holiday, according to an official. 

Pamukkale, one of southwest Turkey's oldest tourist attractions, hosted some 70,000 local and foreign tourists over five days of celebration during the Muslim religious holiday of Eid al-Adha.

Fifty people lost their lives in road accidents across Turkey this year during Eid al-Adha, the Interior Ministry has said.

Representatives from Turkey's political parties on Aug. 12 exchanged traditional Eid al-Adha visits on the second day of the holiday.

Troops in India-administered Kashmir allowed Muslims to walk to local mosques alone or in pairs and pray for the Eid al-Adha festival on Aug. 12 during an unprecedented security lockdown that still forced most people in the disputed region to stay indoors on the Islamic holy day.