Moises Saman A Kurdish fighter stands at the site of a mass grave found on the eastern edge of Sinjar, along Highway 47. Kurdish fighters believe that this mass grave contains the bodies of at least 60 elderly (...)
Yezidi women executed by the Islamic State. Sinjar, Iraq. November 16, 2015. © Moises Saman | Magnum Photos
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 18, 2015. A pick-up truck carrying Yezidi fighters from the YBS (Shingal Defense Units) drives through the rubble-strewn streets of Sinjar days after re-taking the city from (...)
the Islamic State during an offensive led by Kurdish forces and backed by American airstrikes. © Moises Saman | Magnum Photos
Moises Saman A man carries a large teddy bear salvaged from inside an abandoned home in the Old City in Sinjar, badly damaged by heavy fighting and airstrikes that targeted Islamic State fighting positions at t (...)
he northern entrance to the city. Sinjar, Iraq. November 18, 2015. © Moises Saman | Magnum Photos
Moises Saman IRAQ. Makhmour. November 19, 2015. Sheikh Nezahn (left), the leader of a 322-men strong anti-IS Sunni militia based in the southern Mosul countryside, rests at their base near the front line on the (...)
outskirts of IS-controlled Geyara district of Mosul. © Moises Saman | Magnum Photos