Those two weeks included eight attacks in six countries; 247 men, women and children taken forever. But the attacks kept coming, so we scaled back to two weeks, for fear of being overwhelmed. More than half were killed alongside spouses, relatives, friends or acquaintances. During what seemed like a particularly intense spate of attacks back in March, we decided it was not enough. In Iraq, several of the names on the government’s official list of victims did not match the names relatives gave to our stringer, Omar Al-Jawoshy, requiring painstaking crosschecking with people who were in mourning.

Source: International New York Times July 27, 2016 06:45 UTC