Situated in Palmyra, near some of the world’s most beautiful ancient ruins, Syria’s notorious Tadmur Prison has fallen from one brutal boss to another.
While international headlines have focused on the mounting alarm over the fate of Palmyra’s ancient ruins, there’s been a deafening silence about the UNESCO world heritage site from ISIS. Instead, the chatter on Islamist social media platforms is focused on a site hailing from the French mandate era that gained notoriety over four decades of Baathist control under “Assad Senior” (former Syrian President Hafez al-Assad) and his son, Bashar al-Assad.
“The Islamic State has taken Tadmor Prison, a liberation for the Arab world,” tweeted an ISIS sympathizer gleefully this morning as the international community was still processing the horrific news.
