War in the Middle East ensnares many Muslim pilgrims in travel chaos

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JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) — The travel chaos from the war in the Middle East has ensnared many of the Muslims who have converged on Saudi Arabia for the Umrah pilgrimage, leaving them stranded and scrambling to find other ways home. Others had to scrap their planned visits altogether. For some who performed the religious rituals, the war roiling the region has cast a pall on their experience of visiting the kingdom’s holy sites. As of Thursday, more than 58,860 Indonesian pilgrims were stranded

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