I've just returned from the Plateau state in Central Nigeria. Muslim Christian violence has strafed Nigeria for decades. It is a brutal conflict that has claimed thousands of lives.
This stretch of Nigeria's Middle Belt - the faultline where the largely Muslim north meets the predominantly Christian south - has convulsed in recurring waves of bloodshed.
They've hung him upside down like a slab of meat. Stripped to his underwear. Arms bound tight with tape. Ankles lashed to a tree trunk in the open winter air.
DAVID PATRIKARAKOS: Iran. Through the haze I can just make out its mountainous coastline, a mere 20-odd miles away. An undulating dark line on the horizon, but a vast presence in my mind
The videos do not stop. They come in waves, minute after minute. Iranians marching, in their hundreds, then thousands, then tens of thousands. Streets choked with people.
Labour's decision to 'repatriate' anti-British extremist Alaa Abd El-Fattah to the UK, a place he openly despises, is the latest farce in the slow-motion collapse of British governance.
They say the jungle on the island of Mindanao has its own acoustics. Gunfire doesn't crack so much as roll: a ripple that shudders through trees and comes back at you from a dozen angles.
The first shot tore into the back of the man just in front of him - close enough for the Russian private to feel a warm spray of blood across his face.
One man tells his story of how he managed to survive being frontline in a Russia-Ukraine war zone after suffering a grueling 15 days scavenging food and water from died soldiers.