2017 will either be the year in which governments decide to stop genocide in the Middle East or allow these atrocities to be normalized.
2017 will either be the year in which governments decide to stop genocide in the Middle East or allow these atrocities to be normalized.
ISIS’s increased activity abroad is a sign of weakness rather than strength: the group has lost around 20% of its territory in Syria and over 40% in Iraq since its peak expansion in August 2014.
The ancient city of Palmyra has been the stage for mass executions, the destruction of cultural heritage, battles between ISIS and Syrian government forces, and now in an absurd turn of events, a concert put on by Russia’s Mariinsky Theater Orchestra.