Mother Jones – July-August 2019

JULY / AUGUST 2019 | MOTHER JONES 39 she deserved everything else she got. He began talking about wanting to buy Yazidi girls. i ...

40 MOTHER JONES |^ JULY / AUGUST 2019 BEHIND THE LINES victory, and he’s promised you defeat. This battle is not gonna end in Ra ...

suhail hamoud remembers when his Free Syrian Army (fsa) brigade got its first arms ship- ment from the cia. The delivery, made a ...

42 MOTHER JONES |^ JULY / AUGUST 2019 BEHIND THE LINES the level of assistance to reach that magic temperature of just enough pr ...

1.2 million displaced Syrians are expected to return home in 2019. But the UN expects fighting to displace another 1.2 million p ...

44 MOTHER JONES |^ JULY / AUGUST 2019 BEHIND THE LINES ongoing collaboration between fsa and Nusra fighters, it still kept the a ...

JULY / AUGUST 2019 | MOTHER JONES 45 we’re facing in Syria right now,” said White House press secretary Josh Earnest. “That is n ...

46 MOTHER JONES |^ JULY / AUGUST 2019 and terrorists on the territories that they already occupy, not wait for them to come to o ...

JULY / AUGUST 2019 | MOTHER JONES 47 Americans, and, unlike the fsa, they didn’t fight among themselves. Plus, they weren’t focu ...

BEHIND THE LINES In the Ruins of Raqqa “what’s up with the camera?” asks the wild-looking American special forces opera- tive st ...

JULY / AUGUST 2019 | MOTHER JONES 49 to attend a large public prayer. In March 2013, jihadist groups including Jabhat al- Nusra ...

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50 MOTHER JONES |^ JULY / AUGUST 2019 BEHIND THE LINES isis’s leadership was mostly made up of foreigners who were concerned les ...

floor, and a human-sized patch of dust has turned blood red. Wael leads the way to a dark room whose walls are re- inforced with ...

52 MOTHER JONES |^ JULY / AUGUST 2019 BEHIND THE LINES became completely brainwashed, and came out extremists.” We enter a room ...

65% of all battle deaths in Syria have been civilians. 84% of all civilian deaths from fighting—about 104,000—have been caused b ...

BEHIND THE LINES park their ambulances under trees so American planes wouldn’t blow them up. (An American coalition spokesper- s ...

JULY / AUGUST 2019 | MOTHER JONES 55 The United States did not ratify the incendiary weapons protocol until 2009, and even then ...

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