INSIDE MOSUL
An intimate view of the war’s toll
TEXT BY Jared Malsin / PHOTOGRAPHS BY Emanuele Satolli for TIME
The battle for Mosul is approaching an endgame. Over nearly half a year of fighting, an Iraqi-led, American-backed military offensive has driven ISIS out of more than half the city and surrounded the militants in an enclave on the western bank of the Tigris. As a result, the Islamic State is on the brink of losing the largest and most important city it once claimed as a part of its realm in Iraq and Syria. Read More...
There was little sound for the first two minutes after the crash except for the hoarse wail of the mangled car’s horn. The noise emanated weakly from both ends of the tunnel on Paris’ Place de l’Alma—from the east end, which the black Mercedes with the silver trim had entered just moments before, moving at least twice the 35 m.p.h. the local traffic laws allow; and from the west end, where the narrow tunnel opened onto a spectacular view of the left bank of the Seine. Read More...
June 1, 2015 4:54 PM EDT
With The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 2 on its way, President Snow is falling apart quite literally in a new poster.
The poster released Monday shows a destroyed statue of President Snow with a Mockingjay symbol painted in red in the background. In the corner, scrawled in red, there’s the hashtag #UNITE and the URL REVOLUTION.PN, where users can register to join the rebels. Read More...
