In an article published by The Daily Beast on 5 July, Oliver Imhof and Osama Mansour from Airwars recount the days of the occupation of Sirte by ISIS. The article describes the transformation of the city as the terrorist organization overtakes it, and the fight that followed in late 2016 to liberate Sirte. Almost a year and a half after the liberation of the city, not all wounds have been mended, the two authors report, evoking the scars left on Sirte by ISIS’s brief occupation of the city that transpire through the hundreds of remaining unidentified and unclaimed bodies and the children left orphaned by the battle whose fate is still to be decided.Click here to read more.
The unclosed wounds of ISIS’s Sirte