‘There Are No Girls Left’: Syria’s Christian Villages Hollowed Out by ISIS
Syria Dispatch
TEL TAL, Syria — The memories of the retired oilman dot the village in Syria where he grew up. The mud chapel he got married in. The concrete church he helped build that would overflow with worshipers on holidays. The tight community of Assyrian Christian families who had lived together in this area for generations.
Now it’s a village of ghosts.
The church is a pile of rubble, its bell tower and its cross toppled over like a felled tree. The dirt paths are overgrown, walked by stray dogs. Most homes are empty, their owners in Germany, Australia, the United States and elsewhere.
Read more at: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/15/world/middleeast/syria-isis-assyrian-christians.html
Lengthy and good article by the NYT. This belabors a point most of us know but it can't be emphasized enough.
