... clashes and power struggles that continue into modern times. Also, many groups were split among several nations. The Kurdish population was divided between four states: Turkey, Iran, Iraq, and Syria. Shiite Arabs ended up in Iraq, Kuwait, Bahrain, and the eastern provinces of Saudi Arabia. The Alawites took residence in northern Lebanese, Syrian, and southwestern Turkish coasts. Israel, Lebanon, and Syria ... held the Druze. Lebanon included large Sunni and Shiite populations, as well as Alawites and Druze. The dominant population of the Middle East, Sunni Arabs, were split among numero...

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