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Paolo Pellegrin Kurdish peshmerga mourn the death of one of their comrades, a tank driver killed by an ISIS sniper, as they were about to leave Bashiqa after a day of battle. Iraq. 2016. © Paolo Pellegrin | Magnum Photos
Paolo Pellegrin Over the summer, in an effort to prevent coalition airstrikes, ISIS fighters set alight oil fields around Qayyarah, a city southeast of Mosul. The fires have been sending noxious black smoke into t (...)
Paolo Pellegrin People flee ISIS controlled areas carrying with them their possesions and in the case of farmers their sheep. Over the summer, in an effort to prevent coalition airstrikes, ISIS fighters set alight (...)
Paolo Pellegrin People from the village of Bajurbuk, near Bashiqa, were told by ISIS that they would all be brought to Mosul in the morning so in the middle of the night they fled the village and found refuge behi (...)
Paolo Pellegrin Over the summer, in an effort to prevent coalition airstrikes, ISIS fighters set alight oil fields around Qayyarah, a city southeast of Mosul. The fires have been sending noxious black smoke into t (...)
Paolo Pellegrin A division of peshmerga soldiers, accompanied by tanks, armored vehicles and American special forces, begin a two-day march towards Bashiqa, ISIS’s last major stronghold in Kurdish territory. They (...)
Paolo Pellegrin Mohammed Hasali, deputy of the Asaish ( Kurdish intelligence agency) in Kirkuk shows a picture on his phone of an ISIS woman terrorist they know has entered Kirkuk recently. Sinjar. Iraq. 2015. © Paolo Pellegrin | Magnum Photos
Paolo Pellegrin IRAQ. 2016. In late October, peshmerga forces assaulted Omar Qapchi, a village east of Mosul. After an armored convoy surrounded a force of about a dozen ISIS fighters, Kurdish soldiers chased the (...)
Paolo Pellegrin Iraqi military shoot at an ISIS held position in the next building over. East Mosul. Iraq. 2016. © Paolo Pellegrin | Magnum Photos
Paolo Pellegrin IRAQ. 2016. A division of peshmerga soldiers, accompanied by tanks, armored vehicles and American special forces, begin a two-day march towards Bashiqa, ISIS’s last major stronghold in Kurdish terr (...)
Paolo Pellegrin Shia militias check arriving IDP's. Thousands of civilians fleeing from the ISIS controlled cities of Sherkat and Gwer as well as surrounding villages arrive in a holding and processing area contro (...)
Paolo Pellegrin A division of peshmerga soldiers, accompanied by tanks, armored vehicles and American special forces, begin a two-day march towards Bashiqa, ISIS’s last major stronghold in Kurdish territory. They (...)
Paolo Pellegrin An ISIS prisoner in an ASAISH ( Kurdish intelligence agency) run secret prison on the outskirts of Kirkuk. Kirkuk. Iraq. 2015. © Paolo Pellegrin | Magnum Photos
Paolo Pellegrin A mass grave around the town of Sinjar. The border city of Sinjar was liberated after over one year of ISIS occupation in mid november by a joint operation involving 7,500 Kurdish and Yazidi peshme (...)
Paolo Pellegrin A soldier of the 9th Iraqi armored division falls while running up a street during a contact with ISIS militants in the Entesar neighborhood in the eastern side of the city of Mosul. Iraq. 2016. © Paolo Pellegrin | Magnum Photos
Paolo Pellegrin IRAQ. Tikrit. 2016. IDP's who escaped from ISIS controlled Sherkat find refugee in the unfinished Al Kadasie apartment complex in Tikrit. © Paolo Pellegrin | Magnum Photos
Paolo Pellegrin A mass grave around the town of Sinjar. The border city of Sinjar was liberated after over one year of ISIS occupation in mid november by a joint operation involving 7,500 Kurdish and Yazidi peshme (...)
Paolo Pellegrin Kurdish Peshmerga in a front line position inside the town of Sinjar. Sinjar has been captured by ISIS but the Peshmerga have managed to regain a portion and currently hold two positions in the tow (...)