Taken back

About three months ago, Islamic State (IS) conquered villages in northern Syria and took hundreds of Syrian Christians. Now Kurds and Assyrian Christians have successfully taken back a string of those villages.

But IS destroyed the life they had there, as evidenced by this photo of the ruin of the Church of the Virgin Mary in Tal Nasri, Syria:

It was blown up on Easter Sunday.

Too bad the displaced families can't go home even now that IS has been driven out - because the villages have been mined.

"That leaves about 1,400 Assyrian families—nearly 7,000 persons—unable to go back to their homes and villages . . . “Their grandfathers survived the Christian genocide of 1915, and now, the grandsons are trying to survive the new massacre.”