Moises Saman IRAQ. Snooni. November 17, 2015. Shivan Rasho Hussein (third from right), sits next to family mebers as he recounts how one of his daughters was captured by the Islamic State and married off to one (...)
of its fighters. Shivan is able to speak with his daughter from time to time via cellphone, and he believes that she is living in the IS-controlled Iraqi city of Tal Afar. © Moises Saman | Magnum Photos
Moises Saman IRAQ. Sinjar. November 16, 2015. The body of a would-be Islamic State suicide bomber killed by PKK fighters before he was able to set off the explosion. The decomposing dead body lies at the wheel (...)
of the vehicle near a PKK base that was his intended target. © Moises Saman | Magnum Photos
Moises Saman IRAQ. Sinjar Mountains. 2014. Injured survivors of an Iraqi Air Force helicopter crash in Mount Sinjar lie onboard a rescue helicopter on its way to Iraqi Kurdistan. The survivors included Yazidi c (...)
ivilians, Kurdish and Iraqi Army personnel, and journalists. The Yazidis were fleeing persecution at the hands of Islamist extremists who had recently taken over their hometowns in Iraq's Ninevah province. In the high grounds of Mount Sinjar, thousands of Yazidis found safety from ISIS, but also the risk of dying from hunger and thirst. The first rescue helicopter had been sent to save the besieged civilians from that dismal fate, but it crashed into the side of the mountain shortly after takeoff. © Moises Saman | Magnum Photos
Moises Saman SYRIA. Derek. August 10, 2014.
Displaced Yazidi men from Sinjar at a makeshift camp on the outskirts of Derek, a Kurdish-controlled town in Syria, shortly after arriving on foot from the mountains (...)
where they sought refugee after fleeing their homes as ISIS militants moved into their area. The only way for this families to reach the safety of Kurdish-controlled northern Iraq is through a safe corridor in Syria that is controlled by Syrian-Kurdish militias. © Moises Saman | Magnum Photos
Moises Saman A displaced Yazidi man carries his two daughters as he crosses the border into Kurdish-controlled northern Iraq near the village of Fishkhabur. Thousands of displaced Yazidis from the Sinjar region (...)
of northern Iraq have taken refuge in the Kurdish areas of northern Iraq after fleeing their homes due to the advance of militants from ISIS. Fishkhabur. Iraq. August 10, 2014. © Moises Saman | Magnum Photos
Moises Saman IRAQ. Kurdistan. November 28, 2014. A Yazidi woman combs her hair inisde a cave in the mountain village of Lalesh, in Iraq's Nineveh Province. Lalesh is the site of the sacred tomb of Sheikh Adi in (...)
Musafir, the main figure in the Yazidi faith, and is now home to thousands of displaced Yazidis from Sinjar. © Moises Saman | Magnum Photos
Moises Saman IRAQ. Fishkhabur. August 11. 2014.
14-year-old Ahmad Naif, a Yazidi boy from Sinjar, stands behind a tent at a makeshift camp for displaced families near the village of Fishkhabur, in Kurdish-cont (...)
rolled northern Iraq. Ahmad and his family fled Sinjar for the nearby mountains as ISIS militants were approaching their village. Ahmad and his family endured a six-day journey through the mountains of northern Iraq and Syria until they crossed the border int Kurdish-controlled Dohuk Province, in northern Iraq. © Moises Saman | Magnum Photos
Moises Saman IRAQ. Kurdistan. November 28, 2014. Yazidi men displaced from Sinjar by the advance of the Islamic State, living in the mountain village of Lalesh, in Iraq's Nineveh Province. Lalesh is the site of (...)
the sacred tomb of Sheikh Adi in Musafir, the main figure in the Yazidi faith. © Moises Saman | Magnum Photos
Moises Saman A boy whose mother was onboard the helicopter cries as he does not know the fate of his mother, she survived. An Iraqi Air Force helicopter on a rescue mission in the Sinjar Mountains crashed short (...)
ly after takeoff. Onboard the helicopter were dozens of Yazidi refugees stranded in the mountain for days unable to reach the safety of Kurdish-controlled areas of northern Iraq. Sinjar Mountains. Iraq. 2014. © Moises Saman | Magnum Photos
Moises Saman Sinjar, Iraq. March 3, 2018.
A man stands next to buildings damaged during the fight against ISIS in Sinjar, northern Iraq. More than two years after the liberation of Sinjar, this war-ravaged cit (...)
y remains mostly in ruins.
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