The light of the Nigerian sun is blinding, piercing, rendering the colours of Maiduguri hollow and indistinct. The sky is as white as the dust along the road. It is here, in this place of unforgiving flashes, of reflections that...
“Car bomb, car bomb” scream the Libyan fighters launching their last attack on the black flags in Sirte. The suicide bomber at the wheel of the vehicle transformed into an explosive ram zig zags along a two-lane highway towards a...
The final offensive to free the two neighborhoods still in the hands of the Caliph’s followers began yesterday morning. From Anaga residential area opposite district 3, where the last jihadist militia have barricaded themselves all hell breaks loose. The Misurata...
We have returned to Kurdistan. We are again travelling between the frontlines which mark this small country in which territories are under the control of the Islamic State. We will be focusing on the area of Kirkuk, a city which...
All around us are corpses. Fleshless bones and skeletons still bearing the Islamic State uniforms scattered along the defense lines of Kuweyres military airport, 26 kilometers east of Aleppo. In the area surrounding this base which was trapped behind the...
In the area surrounding this base which was trapped behind the Caliphate lines for nearly three years one of the longest and most fierce battles of the Syrian conflict was fought. Here 1200 men of the Syrian air force defended for 1215 days the three kilometer by two perimeter of the military airport situated along the highway to Raqqa and besieged by Islamic State militants since 2013.
“Salam Aleikum!”, “Aleikum Salam”. “Peace be with you!” “Peace be upon you.” The airport official picks up the passport, turns the pages with melodramatic deliberation, then inks his stamp and tattoos the document with the words “Federal Republic of Somalia”...
The forgotten Civil War in the Ukraine is sheeding more blood than ever with Kiev serving as the host for those who remain faithful, enlisting European voluteers from Italy, Sweden, Finland, the Baltics and France. The Azov Battalion, accused of...
Marco Maisano and Giacomo Getti went to Kurdistan, in the north of Iraq. The found themselves just a few meters away from jihadists, under fire by hidden along with Kurdish fighters of Peshmerga, who in these trenches are repelling these terrorists. "We cannot just stand by and watch, but we don't have the means to protect ourselves from suicide attacks."
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