Globe Trot: Lebanon uncovers sex-trafficking of Syrian refugees

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A whip on a table at the Chez Maurice hotel, home to a sex-trafficking ring in Lebanon Associated Press/Photo by Hussein Malla

Globe Trot: Lebanon uncovers sex-trafficking of Syrian refugees

LEBANON: The three-story Chez Maurice looked more like a jail than a hotel, with a whip lying on one of the guard tables. Here flourished a sex-trafficking ring involving at least 75 Syrian refugee women, who were only allowed to leave to have abortions.

IRAQ: Turns out that reportedly about 430 Kurdish Jews have been living in hiding in northern Iraq, and one of them will tell his story at a Capitol Hill event April 19.

Compelling read: President Barack Obama is hiding his war in Iraq (subscription required).

PANAMA: Police raided the law offices at the center of a global finance scandal yesterday as tax regulators prepared to meet in Paris to discuss what to do about revelations of massive tax sheltering. Anyone know an amount of total estimated foregone tax revenue?

ERITREA is one of the leading sources of refugees in Europe, and its clamp on religious liberty is the reason why.

NIGERIA: Attacks in Nigeria highlight a new threat to Christians from one of the oldest tribes in Africa, Fulani terrorists.

Mindy Belz

Mindy is a former senior editor for WORLD Magazine and wrote the publication’s first cover story in 1986. She has covered wars in Syria, Afghanistan, Africa, and the Balkans, and she recounts some of her experiences in They Say We Are Infidels: On the Run From ISIS With Persecuted Christians in the Middle East. Mindy resides with her husband, Nat, in Asheville, N.C.

@MindyBelz