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 (...)
oil fields around Qayyarah, a city southeast of Mosul. The fires have been sending noxious black smoke into the atmosphere ever since. Iraq. 2016. © Paolo Pellegrin | Magnum Photos
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 (...)
soon encountered resistance from ISIS fighters in the small villages around Bashiqa. 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 (...)
itory. They soon encountered resistance from ISIS fighters in the small villages around Bashiqa. © Paolo Pellegrin | Magnum Photos
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 (...)
lled by the Iraqi Army and the Hashed militias in Hajjej. Hajjej. Iraq. 2016. © Paolo Pellegrin | Magnum Photos
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 (...)
soon encountered resistance from ISIS fighters in the small villages around Bashiqa. Iraq. 2016. © 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 (...)
rga and coalition airstrikes. Vast parts of the city are completely destroyed. Sinjar. 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 (...)
rga and coalition airstrikes. Vast parts of the city are completely destroyed. Sinjar. Iraq. 2015. © Paolo Pellegrin | Magnum Photos
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 (...)
n. The lines between ISIS and the Peshmerga are very close, in some cases roughly a 100 meters and there are frequent exchanges of fire. Sinjar. Kurdistan. Iraq. 2015. © Paolo Pellegrin | Magnum Photos