DEATH DEALING
It is clear the U.S.-led coalition vastly underestimated the number of civilians trapped with ISIS in its last Syrian redoubt.
THE FINAL OFFENSIVE
With Chechnya as his model, the Russian president is willing to level whole cities to enforce ‘peace.’ For Putin, civilian suffering is a tool to be exploited to win the war.
HUMAN SHIELDS
A year and a half ago, much of the world’s attention was focused on the battles to oust ISIS from bastions in Iraq and Syria. But it had staked a claim in Libya, too.