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Baba Gurgur (literally "Father of Fire") is a large oil field near the city of Kirkuk which was the first to be discovered in Northern Iraq in 1927.
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Baba Gurgur (literally "Father of Fire") is a large oil field near the city of Kirkuk which was the first to be discovered in Northern Iraq in 1927.
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Rise Foundation works with children to paint murals on the walls of a former prison used by Saddam Hussein.
The Akre refugee camp in Iraqi Kurdistan – also known as ‘the castle’ – is believed to have once been used as a prison by Saddam Hussein. Today, it is home to some 1,470 Syrian refugees.
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Rise Foundation works with children to paint murals on the walls of a former prison used by Saddam Hussein.
The Akre refugee camp in Iraqi Kurdistan – also known as ‘the castle’ – is believed to have once been used as a prison by Saddam Hussein. Today, it is home to some 1,470 Syrian refugees.
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Peshmerga forces don't allow the Arab families smuggled to the frontline from the villages controlled by ISIS to enter Kurdistan.
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Peshmerga forces don't allow the Arab families smuggled to the frontline from the villages controlled by ISIS to enter Kurdistan.
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Erbil, Ainkawa, Iraqi Kurdistan. Shara Kenworthey, 27, from Texas dances with friends at the Bar 52 nightclub popular with expats. The club is on the top floor of a hotel and is also frequented by oil workers. Erbil, which was an oil boom town until a recent financial crisis struck, enjoyed an uptick in nightlife in the last ten years. In October 2015 Christian residents of Ainkawa demonstrated because they were unhappy with the number of clubs and bars in the area.
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Erbil, Ainkawa, Iraqi Kurdistan. Shara Kenworthey, 27, from Texas dances with friends at the Bar 52 nightclub popular with expats. The club is on the top floor of a hotel and is also frequented by oil workers. Erbil, which was an oil boom town until a recent financial crisis struck, enjoyed an uptick in nightlife in the last ten years. In October 2015 Christian residents of Ainkawa demonstrated because they were unhappy with the number of clubs and bars in the area.
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Peshmerga fighters arrive at Erbil from the frontline.
Empire World, a private real estate and investment company is seen at the background.
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Peshmerga fighters arrive at Erbil from the frontline.
Empire World, a private real estate and investment company is seen at the background.
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866
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Gold market in Erbil.
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Gold market in Erbil.
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Acting Mayor of Jalawla, a town at the tip of Diyala province, stands in the ruins of his town. His family home was destroyed by Isis and much of the town suffers the damage of the battle to push Isis from Jalawla in late 2014. Despite being free of Isis, the residents of Jalawla aren't allowed back and the town is still strewn with IEDs.
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Acting Mayor of Jalawla, a town at the tip of Diyala province, stands in the ruins of his town. His family home was destroyed by Isis and much of the town suffers the damage of the battle to push Isis from Jalawla in late 2014. Despite being free of Isis, the residents of Jalawla aren't allowed back and the town is still strewn with IEDs.
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Yazidi families stay in a shack settlement on a patch of land next to the luxurious five-star Divan Hotel, once popular with the overseas business delegations that used to flood to Kurdistan.
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Yazidi families stay in a shack settlement on a patch of land next to the luxurious five-star Divan Hotel, once popular with the overseas business delegations that used to flood to Kurdistan.
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The view of the city from the northeastern Goyje Mountain.
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The view of the city from the northeastern Goyje Mountain.
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Visitors at Sarchnar Park.
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Visitors at Sarchnar Park.
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Survivors of the chemical attack and the Anfal campaign in 1988 visit the cemetery.
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Survivors of the chemical attack and the Anfal campaign in 1988 visit the cemetery.
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The Rev. Jens Petzold celebrates Mass inside the church of the Maryam al-adhra monastery in Sulaymaniyah.
Father Jens Petzold has housed more than 150 displaced Christian citizens in his monastery’s church in Iraq, which would normally accommodate just 15 people.
Father Jens and the community from the monastery in Sulaymaniyah are supporting Christians who have escaped their homes in the Nenewa Plain, near Mosul.
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The Rev. Jens Petzold celebrates Mass inside the church of the Maryam al-adhra monastery in Sulaymaniyah.
Father Jens Petzold has housed more than 150 displaced Christian citizens in his monastery’s church in Iraq, which would normally accommodate just 15 people.
Father Jens and the community from the monastery in Sulaymaniyah are supporting Christians who have escaped their homes in the Nenewa Plain, near Mosul.
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Lalesh Kurdistan.
Yazidi shrine at Lalesh.
Shepherd leds flocks of sheep near lalesh. The gas flare is seen at the background.
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Lalesh Kurdistan.
Yazidi shrine at Lalesh.
Shepherd leds flocks of sheep near lalesh. The gas flare is seen at the background.
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Lalesh Kurdistan.
Yazidi shrine at Lalesh.
General caption: Views of prayer and devotion at the Yazidi shrine at Lalesh, in the mountains outside Erbil. Lalesh is the most sacred place for the Yazidi people, a religious minority mostly found in Kurdish territory. Yazidis are considered heretics by many Muslims, including ISIS insurgents. Since ISIS began its sweep across the region last year, the group has massacred Yazidis in large numbers. While the Kurds tolerate Yazidis, relations aren’t always warm between the two groups. Years of misunderstanding has led many Kurds—and other Muslims—to believe that Yazidis worship the devil, a claim Yazidis vigorously deny.
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Lalesh Kurdistan.
Yazidi shrine at Lalesh.
General caption: Views of prayer and devotion at the Yazidi shrine at Lalesh, in the mountains outside Erbil. Lalesh is the most sacred place for the Yazidi people, a religious minority mostly found in Kurdish territory. Yazidis are considered heretics by many Muslims, including ISIS insurgents. Since ISIS began its sweep across the region last year, the group has massacred Yazidis in large numbers. While the Kurds tolerate Yazidis, relations aren’t always warm between the two groups. Years of misunderstanding has led many Kurds—and other Muslims—to believe that Yazidis worship the devil, a claim Yazidis vigorously deny.
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Erbil Kurdistan.
Erbil, the capital of Iraqi Kurdistan
The citadel is now a Unesco World Heritage site and, while the rest of the city is developing ultra-modern architecture, here an army of workers are restoring the old buildings which were abandoned over the last century as people moved down to the newer areas.
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Erbil Kurdistan.
Erbil, the capital of Iraqi Kurdistan
The citadel is now a Unesco World Heritage site and, while the rest of the city is developing ultra-modern architecture, here an army of workers are restoring the old buildings which were abandoned over the last century as people moved down to the newer areas.
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Slemani Kurdistan.
Graduation
Graduation at the American University of Sulaymaniya.
Young Kurdish women celebrate with their families after graduating from American University of Sulaymaniyah, a four-year school based on the American model of liberal arts education and founded by Barham Salih, former Prime Minister of the KRG. The university attracts students from all over Iraq and the region. ISIS has threatened to attack the school.
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Slemani Kurdistan.
Graduation
Graduation at the American University of Sulaymaniya.
Young Kurdish women celebrate with their families after graduating from American University of Sulaymaniyah, a four-year school based on the American model of liberal arts education and founded by Barham Salih, former Prime Minister of the KRG. The university attracts students from all over Iraq and the region. ISIS has threatened to attack the school.
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Slemani Kurdistan.
Female Fighters
Female peshmerga belonging to the PUK train at a base outside Slemani. There are some 500 women in the PUK’s military. Many of them join the force seeking safety from abusive family relationships; others join to defend Kurdistan from ISIS.
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Slemani Kurdistan.
Female Fighters
Female peshmerga belonging to the PUK train at a base outside Slemani. There are some 500 women in the PUK’s military. Many of them join the force seeking safety from abusive family relationships; others join to defend Kurdistan from ISIS.
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Slemani Kurdistan.
Female Fighters
Female peshmerga belonging to the PUK train at a base outside Slemani. There are some 500 women in the PUK’s military. Many of them join the force seeking safety from abusive family relationships; others join to defend Kurdistan from ISIS.
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Slemani Kurdistan.
Female Fighters
Female peshmerga belonging to the PUK train at a base outside Slemani. There are some 500 women in the PUK’s military. Many of them join the force seeking safety from abusive family relationships; others join to defend Kurdistan from ISIS.
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Slemani Kurdistan.
Female Fighters
Female peshmerga belonging to the PUK train at a base outside Slemani. There are some 500 women in the PUK’s military. Many of them join the force seeking safety from abusive family relationships; others join to defend Kurdistan from ISIS.
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Slemani Kurdistan.
Female Fighters
Female peshmerga belonging to the PUK train at a base outside Slemani. There are some 500 women in the PUK’s military. Many of them join the force seeking safety from abusive family relationships; others join to defend Kurdistan from ISIS.
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852
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Slemani Kurdistan.
Lake Dukan is a large reservoir north of Slemani that is a hugely popular vacation spot for Kurds—and Arabs. Every weekend during warm weather the lake and the region around it is filled with picnicking families dressed in traditional clothing, tour groups, and students, some of whom spend hours driving along bad roads to reach Dukan.
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Slemani Kurdistan.
Lake Dukan is a large reservoir north of Slemani that is a hugely popular vacation spot for Kurds—and Arabs. Every weekend during warm weather the lake and the region around it is filled with picnicking families dressed in traditional clothing, tour groups, and students, some of whom spend hours driving along bad roads to reach Dukan.
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Slemani Kurdistan.
Lake Dukan is a large reservoir north of Slemani that is a hugely popular vacation spot for Kurds—and Arabs. Every weekend during warm weather the lake and the region around it is filled with picnicking families dressed in traditional clothing, tour groups, and students, some of whom spend hours driving along bad roads to reach Dukan.
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Slemani Kurdistan.
Lake Dukan is a large reservoir north of Slemani that is a hugely popular vacation spot for Kurds—and Arabs. Every weekend during warm weather the lake and the region around it is filled with picnicking families dressed in traditional clothing, tour groups, and students, some of whom spend hours driving along bad roads to reach Dukan.
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Slemani Kurdistan.
Lake Dukan is a large reservoir north of Slemani that is a hugely popular vacation spot for Kurds—and Arabs. Every weekend during warm weather the lake and the region around it is filled with picnicking families dressed in traditional clothing, tour groups, and students, some of whom spend hours driving along bad roads to reach Dukan.
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Slemani Kurdistan.
Lake Dukan is a large reservoir north of Slemani that is a hugely popular vacation spot for Kurds—and Arabs. Every weekend during warm weather the lake and the region around it is filled with picnicking families dressed in traditional clothing, tour groups, and students, some of whom spend hours driving along bad roads to reach Dukan.
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Frontline near Mosul Kurdistan.
Wedding
General caption: Most Kurds don’t live far from a frontline these days. In the corridor between Mosul and Erbil, a wedding party begins celebration with traditional dancing. The party will likely go on for hours, late into the night, even as airstrikes pound ISIS positions only a few kilometers away.
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Frontline near Mosul Kurdistan.
Wedding
General caption: Most Kurds don’t live far from a frontline these days. In the corridor between Mosul and Erbil, a wedding party begins celebration with traditional dancing. The party will likely go on for hours, late into the night, even as airstrikes pound ISIS positions only a few kilometers away.
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Frontline near Mosul Kurdistan.
Wedding
Most Kurds don’t live far from a frontline these days. In the corridor between Mosul and Erbil, a wedding party begins celebration with traditional dancing. The party will likely go on for hours, late into the night, even as airstrikes pound ISIS positions only a few kilometers away.
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Frontline near Mosul Kurdistan.
Wedding
Most Kurds don’t live far from a frontline these days. In the corridor between Mosul and Erbil, a wedding party begins celebration with traditional dancing. The party will likely go on for hours, late into the night, even as airstrikes pound ISIS positions only a few kilometers away.
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847
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Slemani Kurdistan.
Men are enjoying the evening at the square, behind them a giant portrait of Mahmud Barzanji, self-declared king of the Kingdom of Kurdistan from 1922–1924.
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Slemani Kurdistan.
Men are enjoying the evening at the square, behind them a giant portrait of Mahmud Barzanji, self-declared king of the Kingdom of Kurdistan from 1922–1924.
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Arbat IDP camp, Slemani.
Scenes from the Arbat Camp outside Slemani, which houses some 18,000 internally displaced Iraqis. The Kurdish government has provided sanctuary to tens of thousands of people who’ve fled the onslaught of ISIS within Iraq and the civil war in neighboring Syria. Mostly these camps are run by the Kurds, with help from international aid organizations. The Iraqi government has done little to support IDPs.
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Arbat IDP camp, Slemani.
Scenes from the Arbat Camp outside Slemani, which houses some 18,000 internally displaced Iraqis. The Kurdish government has provided sanctuary to tens of thousands of people who’ve fled the onslaught of ISIS within Iraq and the civil war in neighboring Syria. Mostly these camps are run by the Kurds, with help from international aid organizations. The Iraqi government has done little to support IDPs.
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Arbat IDP camp, Slemani.
Scenes from the Arbat Camp outside Slemani, which houses some 18,000 internally displaced Iraqis. The Kurdish government has provided sanctuary to tens of thousands of people who’ve fled the onslaught of ISIS within Iraq and the civil war in neighboring Syria. Mostly these camps are run by the Kurds, with help from international aid organizations. The Iraqi government has done little to support IDPs.
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Arbat IDP camp, Slemani.
Scenes from the Arbat Camp outside Slemani, which houses some 18,000 internally displaced Iraqis. The Kurdish government has provided sanctuary to tens of thousands of people who’ve fled the onslaught of ISIS within Iraq and the civil war in neighboring Syria. Mostly these camps are run by the Kurds, with help from international aid organizations. The Iraqi government has done little to support IDPs.
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Arbat IDP camp, Slemani.
Scenes from the Arbat Camp outside Slemani, which houses some 18,000 internally displaced Iraqis. The Kurdish government has provided sanctuary to tens of thousands of people who’ve fled the onslaught of ISIS within Iraq and the civil war in neighboring Syria. Mostly these camps are run by the Kurds, with help from international aid organizations. The Iraqi government has done little to support IDPs.
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Arbat IDP camp, Slemani.
Scenes from the Arbat Camp outside Slemani, which houses some 18,000 internally displaced Iraqis. The Kurdish government has provided sanctuary to tens of thousands of people who’ve fled the onslaught of ISIS within Iraq and the civil war in neighboring Syria. Mostly these camps are run by the Kurds, with help from international aid organizations. The Iraqi government has done little to support IDPs.
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Near the Iranian border, In the mountains west of Slemani.
A village in the mountains near the Iranian border.
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Near the Iranian border, In the mountains west of Slemani.
A village in the mountains near the Iranian border.
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Near the Iranian border, in the mountains west of Slemani.
A farmer and his family prepare a field for spring planting in the mountains near the Iranian border.
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Near the Iranian border, in the mountains west of Slemani.
A farmer and his family prepare a field for spring planting in the mountains near the Iranian border.
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The city of Kirkuk is built around a mound, topped with an abandoned citadel. Below the citadel is a river, clogged with garbage, and markets where traders switch between languages as they barter.
Turkomans, Sunni and Shia Arabs, and Christians can all be found here and in the surrounding region of dusty plains, low hills, hardscrabble farming communities, and oilfields tapping into a quarter of Iraq's estimated reserves.
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The city of Kirkuk is built around a mound, topped with an abandoned citadel. Below the citadel is a river, clogged with garbage, and markets where traders switch between languages as they barter.
Turkomans, Sunni and Shia Arabs, and Christians can all be found here and in the surrounding region of dusty plains, low hills, hardscrabble farming communities, and oilfields tapping into a quarter of Iraq's estimated reserves.
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Tekya Talabani (Talabani mosque)
For more than a century, the Tekya Talabani has provided a spiritual center for the many ethnic groups and faiths of Kirkuk. Built and maintained by the powerful Talabani family, the tekya is one of the few places in the region where performances of traditional Islamic music, dancing, and song are still found. The mosque, and the performances, routinely draw the faithful from all of Kirkuk’s communities—Kurds, Turkmen, and Arabs, Sunni, Shia, and Sufi.
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Tekya Talabani (Talabani mosque)
For more than a century, the Tekya Talabani has provided a spiritual center for the many ethnic groups and faiths of Kirkuk. Built and maintained by the powerful Talabani family, the tekya is one of the few places in the region where performances of traditional Islamic music, dancing, and song are still found. The mosque, and the performances, routinely draw the faithful from all of Kirkuk’s communities—Kurds, Turkmen, and Arabs, Sunni, Shia, and Sufi.
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Kurdish peshmerga forces on the frontline outside of Kirkuk. In the spring of 2015, Kurdish peshmerga, supported by coalition air power, pushed back against the assault of ISIS insurgents, saving the city of Kirkuk and even reclaiming some ISIS-held villages. By May, the front had mostly stabilized along Kurdish territory, but ISIS remained powerful, capturing the city of Ramadi, four hours south of Kirkuk.
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Kurdish peshmerga forces on the frontline outside of Kirkuk. In the spring of 2015, Kurdish peshmerga, supported by coalition air power, pushed back against the assault of ISIS insurgents, saving the city of Kirkuk and even reclaiming some ISIS-held villages. By May, the front had mostly stabilized along Kurdish territory, but ISIS remained powerful, capturing the city of Ramadi, four hours south of Kirkuk.
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Kurdish peshmerga forces on the frontline outside of Kirkuk. In the spring of 2015, Kurdish peshmerga, supported by coalition air power, pushed back against the assault of ISIS insurgents, saving the city of Kirkuk and even reclaiming some ISIS-held villages. By May, the front had mostly stabilized along Kurdish territory, but ISIS remained powerful, capturing the city of Ramadi, four hours south of Kirkuk.
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Kurdish peshmerga forces on the frontline outside of Kirkuk. In the spring of 2015, Kurdish peshmerga, supported by coalition air power, pushed back against the assault of ISIS insurgents, saving the city of Kirkuk and even reclaiming some ISIS-held villages. By May, the front had mostly stabilized along Kurdish territory, but ISIS remained powerful, capturing the city of Ramadi, four hours south of Kirkuk.
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Kurdish peshmerga forces on the frontline outside of Kirkuk. In the spring of 2015, Kurdish peshmerga, supported by coalition air power, pushed back against the assault of ISIS insurgents, saving the city of Kirkuk and even reclaiming some ISIS-held villages. By May, the front had mostly stabilized along Kurdish territory, but ISIS remained powerful, capturing the city of Ramadi, four hours south of Kirkuk.
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Kurdish peshmerga forces on the frontline outside of Kirkuk. In the spring of 2015, Kurdish peshmerga, supported by coalition air power, pushed back against the assault of ISIS insurgents, saving the city of Kirkuk and even reclaiming some ISIS-held villages. By May, the front had mostly stabilized along Kurdish territory, but ISIS remained powerful, capturing the city of Ramadi, four hours south of Kirkuk.
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Kurdish peshmerga forces on the frontline outside of Kirkuk. In the spring of 2015, Kurdish peshmerga, supported by coalition air power, pushed back against the assault of ISIS insurgents, saving the city of Kirkuk and even reclaiming some ISIS-held villages. By May, the front had mostly stabilized along Kurdish territory, but ISIS remained powerful, capturing the city of Ramadi, four hours south of Kirkuk.
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Kurdish peshmerga forces on the frontline outside of Kirkuk. In the spring of 2015, Kurdish peshmerga, supported by coalition air power, pushed back against the assault of ISIS insurgents, saving the city of Kirkuk and even reclaiming some ISIS-held villages. By May, the front had mostly stabilized along Kurdish territory, but ISIS remained powerful, capturing the city of Ramadi, four hours south of Kirkuk.
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Kurdish peshmerga forces on the frontline outside of Kirkuk. In the spring of 2015, Kurdish peshmerga, supported by coalition air power, pushed back against the assault of ISIS insurgents, saving the city of Kirkuk and even reclaiming some ISIS-held villages. By May, the front had mostly stabilized along Kurdish territory, but ISIS remained powerful, capturing the city of Ramadi, four hours south of Kirkuk.
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Kurdish peshmerga forces on the frontline outside of Kirkuk. In the spring of 2015, Kurdish peshmerga, supported by coalition air power, pushed back against the assault of ISIS insurgents, saving the city of Kirkuk and even reclaiming some ISIS-held villages. By May, the front had mostly stabilized along Kurdish territory, but ISIS remained powerful, capturing the city of Ramadi, four hours south of Kirkuk.
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Captured ISIS fighter
A young ISIS fighter is interrogated for the media by police in Kirkuk. The young man is a Sunni Arab who said he was lured to join ISIS by the group’s social media campaign.
Gen Sarhad Qader, a police chief in the Iraqi city of Kirkuk.
A former Kurdish peshmerga guerrilla who spent years fighting Saddam Hussein's forces, Qader got the job in the wake of the US-led invasion of Iraq, and has held it throughout the ensuing years of turmoil.
Some 245 policemen have been killed under his command, while more than a dozen attempts have been made on his life by bomb, bullet and poison.
A group of Islamic State-linked terror suspects were arrested with explosives in Kirkuk and are thought to have been planning attacks on civilians.
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Captured ISIS fighter
A young ISIS fighter is interrogated for the media by police in Kirkuk. The young man is a Sunni Arab who said he was lured to join ISIS by the group’s social media campaign.
Gen Sarhad Qader, a police chief in the Iraqi city of Kirkuk.
A former Kurdish peshmerga guerrilla who spent years fighting Saddam Hussein's forces, Qader got the job in the wake of the US-led invasion of Iraq, and has held it throughout the ensuing years of turmoil.
Some 245 policemen have been killed under his command, while more than a dozen attempts have been made on his life by bomb, bullet and poison.
A group of Islamic State-linked terror suspects were arrested with explosives in Kirkuk and are thought to have been planning attacks on civilians.
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The city of Kirkuk is built around a mound, topped with an abandoned citadel. Below the citadel is a river, clogged with garbage, and markets where traders switch between languages as they barter.
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The city of Kirkuk is built around a mound, topped with an abandoned citadel. Below the citadel is a river, clogged with garbage, and markets where traders switch between languages as they barter.
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The construction site of the new mall for women next to the old cemetery.
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The construction site of the new mall for women next to the old cemetery.
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Kirkuk citadel.
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Kirkuk citadel.
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Omar bin Khatab, Kirkuk. Arab men and boys from the Shammar tribe arrange mud bricks that have been drying in the sun to build the walls of their new home. They are from the town of Saad, about 5km away, which was held by Isis from June 2014 until the peshmerga attacked in September 2015, displacing them. They say they are being prevented from returning home so must start building new homes here, on the edge of a barren expanse of land outside the southern borders of Kirkuk city, 9km from the frontline with Isis.
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Omar bin Khatab, Kirkuk. Arab men and boys from the Shammar tribe arrange mud bricks that have been drying in the sun to build the walls of their new home. They are from the town of Saad, about 5km away, which was held by Isis from June 2014 until the peshmerga attacked in September 2015, displacing them. They say they are being prevented from returning home so must start building new homes here, on the edge of a barren expanse of land outside the southern borders of Kirkuk city, 9km from the frontline with Isis.
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Sinjar Mountain, Iraqi Kurdistan. A family from the Yazidi minority who were displaced by the Isis capture and murder of their people in August 2014 gather to remember lost family members. The women of the family originally from the town of Tel Qasab, make bread. They live in mud adobe houses with scarce access to water, electricity. The family are mourning the loss of Hassan Haji's cousin Ali who was killed battling Isis in Sinjar city, just below the mountain where they now live, on 29 January 2015. Two weeks later two children from the family were killed in a fire when their heater set alight, injuring their mother whose scars are still visible.
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Sinjar Mountain, Iraqi Kurdistan. A family from the Yazidi minority who were displaced by the Isis capture and murder of their people in August 2014 gather to remember lost family members. The women of the family originally from the town of Tel Qasab, make bread. They live in mud adobe houses with scarce access to water, electricity. The family are mourning the loss of Hassan Haji's cousin Ali who was killed battling Isis in Sinjar city, just below the mountain where they now live, on 29 January 2015. Two weeks later two children from the family were killed in a fire when their heater set alight, injuring their mother whose scars are still visible.
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Sinjar Mountain, Iraqi Kurdistan. Displaced Yazidis who escaped from the Isis slaughter of their people and mass enslavement of their women, play on a pool table overlooking the tents of their fellow Yazidis. Thousands of Yazidis, who worship an angel in the form of a peacock and were singled out for acute persecution by Isis in 2014, remain on the mountain. The Yazidi population of around 500,000 people in Iraq are nearly all displaced after Isis took control of Sinjar and surrounding towns, besieging the mountain in the north west of the country.
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Sinjar Mountain, Iraqi Kurdistan. Displaced Yazidis who escaped from the Isis slaughter of their people and mass enslavement of their women, play on a pool table overlooking the tents of their fellow Yazidis. Thousands of Yazidis, who worship an angel in the form of a peacock and were singled out for acute persecution by Isis in 2014, remain on the mountain. The Yazidi population of around 500,000 people in Iraq are nearly all displaced after Isis took control of Sinjar and surrounding towns, besieging the mountain in the north west of the country.
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Kabarto 2 camp, Iraqi Kurdistan. (NAMES CHANGED) Jwan, 16, her mother Laela, 38 and sister in law Jiyan, 17, members of the Yazidi faith pose for a picture by their tent. Jiyan and Jwan were both held by Isis after the extremist Sunni group attacked Sinjar in August 2014, enslaving thousands of women and killing men from the minority religion. Isis labelled the Yazidis, who worship an angel in the form of a peacock and whose religion shares elements of Christianity, Islam and Zoroastrianism, devil worshipers and singled them out for persecution, rape and murder. Isis believe it is religiously justified to take female Yazidi slaves as spoils of war. The women were captured as they tried to escape towards Sinjar mountain from Sinjar town on August 3rd 2014. Four of Laela's children aged 9,5,4 and 5 months are still being held by Isis. Jiyan was pregnant when she was seized by Isis. She was transferred between Sinjar, Tel Afar, Mosul and finally to Raqqah, Syria by the fighters. She gave birth to a baby boy a year ago during her captivity. She escaped with the help of a smuggler and is now living in a small tent with her family. She says she collapses 3-4 times a week when she remembers her ordeal and her fear that her child would be taken from her. Jwan was taken to Mosul then Syria and then back to Mosul again. She was held as a slave, abused and forced to marry three different Isis fighters. She escaped on 16 November last year by jumping from the second floor window of an Isis fighter's house with two other girls. "When I escaped from that house I didn’t believe I would survive," she said. She is angry after her abuse and is waiting to travel to Germany to receive psychological help on a programme for Yazidi women held captive by Isis.
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Kabarto 2 camp, Iraqi Kurdistan. (NAMES CHANGED) Jwan, 16, her mother Laela, 38 and sister in law Jiyan, 17, members of the Yazidi faith pose for a picture by their tent. Jiyan and Jwan were both held by Isis after the extremist Sunni group attacked Sinjar in August 2014, enslaving thousands of women and killing men from the minority religion. Isis labelled the Yazidis, who worship an angel in the form of a peacock and whose religion shares elements of Christianity, Islam and Zoroastrianism, devil worshipers and singled them out for persecution, rape and murder. Isis believe it is religiously justified to take female Yazidi slaves as spoils of war. The women were captured as they tried to escape towards Sinjar mountain from Sinjar town on August 3rd 2014. Four of Laela's children aged 9,5,4 and 5 months are still being held by Isis. Jiyan was pregnant when she was seized by Isis. She was transferred between Sinjar, Tel Afar, Mosul and finally to Raqqah, Syria by the fighters. She gave birth to a baby boy a year ago during her captivity. She escaped with the help of a smuggler and is now living in a small tent with her family. She says she collapses 3-4 times a week when she remembers her ordeal and her fear that her child would be taken from her. Jwan was taken to Mosul then Syria and then back to Mosul again. She was held as a slave, abused and forced to marry three different Isis fighters. She escaped on 16 November last year by jumping from the second floor window of an Isis fighter's house with two other girls. "When I escaped from that house I didn’t believe I would survive," she said. She is angry after her abuse and is waiting to travel to Germany to receive psychological help on a programme for Yazidi women held captive by Isis.
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Kurdish President Masoud Barzani visit military academy Zakho.
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Kurdish President Masoud Barzani visit military academy Zakho.
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Kurdish gunsmith Bakhtiar Aziz
The shop isn’t much more than a basement under Erbil’s central bazaar. Its only fittings are a work bench, a chair and some tools. Shotguns and air rifles line the walls. Bakhtiar Aziz even owns some ancient-looking muskets.
Before Islamic State swept into Iraq, Bakhtiar’s business mostly focused on repairing hunting weapons. He had run the family business since 1987, when he took over from his father during the reign of Saddam Hussein.
He now repairs weapons for the Peshmerga and Asayesh — a Kurdish intelligence and security agency — for free. Bakhtiar considers the work to be his contribution to the war effort.
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Gun Shop
Kurdish gunsmith Bakhtiar Aziz
The shop isn’t much more than a basement under Erbil’s central bazaar. Its only fittings are a work bench, a chair and some tools. Shotguns and air rifles line the walls. Bakhtiar Aziz even owns some ancient-looking muskets.
Before Islamic State swept into Iraq, Bakhtiar’s business mostly focused on repairing hunting weapons. He had run the family business since 1987, when he took over from his father during the reign of Saddam Hussein.
He now repairs weapons for the Peshmerga and Asayesh — a Kurdish intelligence and security agency — for free. Bakhtiar considers the work to be his contribution to the war effort.
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A family of displaced Yazidis from the town of Tel Azer near Sinjar hold up pictures of the male members of their family killed by Isis as they tried to escape to the mountain from the Isis siege in August 2014. "I hid under blankets and heard shooting. I stayed calm and came out and saw everyone, my uncles, father dead. They had been shot in the head, and then I went to the mountain alone," said a young boy from the family left fatherless after witnessing the Isis execution of his older male relatives. The family living in the camp now number 47 people with 9 adults and only one male; Ahmed Naif who is 28. 33 members of the family were kidnapped by Isis, 12 made it back: the ones who have returned are badly traumatized. Jihan and Jilan, 2 teenage girls from the family held by Isis were students in the medical college in Dohuk, committed suicide in Isis captivity. One girl used a piece of bathroom mirror to slit her wrists in the town of Baadge in northwestern Iraq, the family say, after being told she would be 'given' to an Isis leader.
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A family of displaced Yazidis from the town of Tel Azer near Sinjar hold up pictures of the male members of their family killed by Isis as they tried to escape to the mountain from the Isis siege in August 2014. "I hid under blankets and heard shooting. I stayed calm and came out and saw everyone, my uncles, father dead. They had been shot in the head, and then I went to the mountain alone," said a young boy from the family left fatherless after witnessing the Isis execution of his older male relatives. The family living in the camp now number 47 people with 9 adults and only one male; Ahmed Naif who is 28. 33 members of the family were kidnapped by Isis, 12 made it back: the ones who have returned are badly traumatized. Jihan and Jilan, 2 teenage girls from the family held by Isis were students in the medical college in Dohuk, committed suicide in Isis captivity. One girl used a piece of bathroom mirror to slit her wrists in the town of Baadge in northwestern Iraq, the family say, after being told she would be 'given' to an Isis leader.
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