The Baines Report
The temperature had reached about 115 degrees that day in August 2007. I was a relatively young American soldier sitting in the backyard of a Sunni tribal leader, also known as a sheik, in a western Iraqi town called Ramadi. Since 2003 this sheik and his followers had been hard at work trying to kill […]
Since fighting broke out two years ago in Syria, roughly 70,000 have been killed and nearly a quarter of the nation’s 23 million people have been displaced. Refugees flee into neighboring countries on a daily basis. Iraq, Jordan, Lebanon and Turkey have all established camps near their Syrian borders to house these individuals and families. […]