ニューヨーク・タイムズのインスタグラム(nytimes) - 8月16日 22時00分

“All the houses used to be full,” said Ishaq Nisaan. “Now on my street, it’s only me and my neighbor.” The memories of the retired oilman dot the village in Syria where he grew up. The mud chapel he got married in. The concrete church he helped build that would overflow with worshipers on holidays. The tight community of Assyrian Christian families who had lived together in this area for generations. Now it’s a village of ghosts. The same fate has befallen all the surrounding villages, where Assyrian Christians, one of Syria’s many religious minorities, had long farmed and raised animals along the banks of the Khabur River in the country’s northeast. The Islamic State attacked the area in 2015, kidnapping more than 220 residents. The jihadists were pushed out a few months later by Kurdish forces and local fighters, and released most of the captives after receiving exorbitant ransoms. But the extremists demolished many of the area’s churches before they left, and almost all of the freed captives, along with their families and neighbors, have since fled, hollowing out the community. Vulnerable communities were so traumatized that they may never recover, leaving permanent holes in Syria’s social fabric. The number of Christians across the Middle East has been declining for decades as persecution and poverty have led to widespread migration. The days of fear and violence in the villages are gone, but the scars they left are everywhere. @ivorprickett took this photo of Ishaq at the ruins of a church he helped build in the village where he grew up in Syria. Visit the link in our profile to read more.

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