That report finds that ISIS, far from intending to destroy Iraqi and Syrian Christian communities, respects them as “People of the Book,” and seeks to peacefully coexist them. The museum ...
Schools abandoned and heavily damaged. Libraries destroyed. Thousands of books and manuscripts burnt. ISIS used many schools as headquarters for their fighters, but in others they continued to ...
The Mosul Central Library reopens after ISIS destruction, housing rare books and archives, symbolizing Iraq's cultural ...
As the Western powers oversee a succession of seemingly endless bloody fiascos in the Middle East, Cockburn illuminates the intelligence illusions and diplomatic deceptions of Washington, London, ...