Why Syria’s Christians can never go home – Even when Isis retreats, its strategy is to ensure a state of terror and insecurity is left in its wake | The Independent

Syrian Christians are too terrified of past kidnappings and present suicide bombings by Isis to return to their homes in towns and villages from which the Islamist militants have been driven. Much the same is true of other communities in Syria, meaning that few of the 4 million Syrian refugees now outside the country and the 7 million within it are ever likely to go home.