Caravan Town News Today

When I was 13-years-old, I made a small fortune babysitting. Every household was different: there was the one with the wall-sized tropical fish tank, the one with lots of sausage dogs, the one with all the goodies. But it was an item in one that fascinated me most - a citizens band radio. And what I was most interested in, were the nicknames - or handles - everyone went by, and the lingo. CB radio is a land mobile radio system, a system allowing short-distance person-to-person bidirecti...

Greco-roman columns, arches, and amp thet ter. this caravan town had been an important stop on trade routes that once linked rome to east asia. seeing it left me humbled. it was a reminder that we are but small chapters in a much larger, longer, human story. and now this treasure stands at the mercy of an army of marauding nilists. isis leveled in the destruction of sumarian statues in mosul, bulldozing of a asyrian palace in nimrud. isis arent the only groups that committed sins against world h...

Isis. ivan watson shows us whats at stake. >> reporter: a 2,000-year-old city remarkably preserved in the middle of the desert and now in the hands of isis. the agonysyrias three-year war just got worse. many of its residence will likely flee interer to escape the public executions that the group directs against its opponent. in addition to the human cost of this conflict, there are now fears isis may unleash its wrath on the nearby ruins of palmyra. i viced in 2007 as a tourist on a bus. it is ...