In the heady days of its territorial expansion across Syria and Iraq, the so-called Islamic State (IS) drew in Western recruits like moths to an incandescent flame. For a group looking to internationalise its bloodthirsty cause, each defection was a...
Tall Abyad (Syria) “I used to be a terrorist but now that is all over and, thanks be to Allah, I am still alive. I hope one day to go back to leading a normal life in Italy with my...
Baghouz (Syria) “Strike, strike, strike,” yells the Kurdish fighter, lying on the roof of a house turned front-line post, finger on the trigger of a machine gun. The roar of American dive-bombers is bloodcurdling and, a moment later, the terrifying...
It is a hypnotic song. A pounding, almost indistinct sound that the winds of Bol carry through the streets. The percussive rhythm, the long and baritonal notes of the horns and the high voices of women become clearer while walking...
Dar es Salaam, house of peace, a prophetic name for a village just a short distance from Bol where victims of the jihadist group Boko Haram live. An infinite spread of sand and huts where families twisted by hatred and...
Chad, a country in Central Africa, is now facing the most complex humanitarian crisis in the world. In the basin of a lake that has shrunk by 90% due to the climate change, the population must fight every day against...
Isis is a terrorist Islamic organization founded in 2014, on the ashes of the “old” Al Qaeda group in Iraq. It operates in the Middle East but also, with its many ramifications, in Europe, Africa, Russia and the United States....
Abu Bakr al Baghdadi was born on July 28th 1971. By a strange twist of fate the man who in 2014 would proclaim himself the “Caliph” was born in the small town of Samarra, north of Baghdad; with a population...
This is the abyss: absolute, equaliser, inhumane and stigmatised. An abyss that exists in humans, in humans who are all the same, without any pathway or any hope.It’s sewn to their own bodies, visible in their eyes, they walk it,...
Since the reportage ‘Mwavita, born in time of war’ by Daniele Bellocchio and Marco Gualazzini Mwavita that covered the rape in the Democratic Republic of Congo was realized back in February, the short documentary film has won five prestigious national...
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