‘Un-Islamic’ cultural heritage in jihadists’ crosshairs
From Mali to Afghanistan, Syria and Iraq, Islamist fighters have regularly turned their sights on the priceless vestiges of peoples’ cultural heritage — for being…
Mali
Hell to which the world turned a blind eye
The noon sun punches through the shroud of a leaden sky to beat mercilessly on the barren desert. What breeze drifts over the sand grits…