Cold Room Down: Losses and the Threat of Polio in Syria

A child takes oral polio vaccine. Source: WHO, “10 Facts on Polio Eradication.” April 2017.

On October 17, 2017, U.S.-backed forces captured the Syrian city of Raqqa from the so-called Islamic State (ISIS). The liberation of the city, once the would-be caliphate’s capital, starkly demonstrated ISIS’ extensive territorial losses. However, the fight isn’t over; the terror group still clings to its last territory in Syria’s eastern Deir-ez-Zor governorate. And there,… Continue reading Cold Room Down: Losses and the Threat of Polio in Syria