Fighters with the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces man a checkpoint in Hassakeh, northeast Syria, Monday, Jan. 24, 2022. 

ISIS leader killed in Syria raid

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Fighters with the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces man a checkpoint in Hassakeh, northeast Syria, Monday, Jan. 24, 2022. ISIS is back in the headlines this past week, a reminder of a war that formally ended three years ago but still continues. 

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US President Joe Biden has announced today that US commandos have killed ISIS leader Abu Ibrahim al-Hashimi al-Qurayshi in a risky pre-dawn attack in Syria. Experts say, however, that his death is not likely to affect the plans of ideologically driven ISIS. And, many Polish historians worry that the current government is trying to cover up the country’s role in the Holocaust. New museum exhibits are focusing on the heroism of non-Jewish Poles, instead of the atrocities in which Polish people were complicit. Plus, we hear about unlocking the mystery behind 200 artifacts found in tombs in Peru, consisting of human vertebrae threaded on sticks. The objects are likely an Indigenous response to Spanish colonial-era looting of burial grounds.

In This Episode

ISIS leader dies, ISIS remains
Ukraine’s weapons arsenal small, but growing
Classified documents reveal intent and impact of 60 years of US economic embargo on Cuba
Author Viet Thanh Nguyen weighs in on banned books debate
The entrance to Treblinka, one of Europe’s largest World War II-era extermination camps.
A new monument in Poland sparks concern about Holocaust revisionism
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Go_A Band from Kyiv includes Kateryna Pavlenko (vocals) and Taras Shevchenko (founder/keyboard and percussion).
Kyiv’s Go_A Band reinterprets Ukrainian folk music with electronica 
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MIT scientist ‘lived in constant fear’ while accused under Trump’s ‘China initiative’
Unraveling the mystery of ‘spines on sticks’
‘Necessity is the mother of invention’