Thousands of Yezidis trapped in the Sinjar mountains as they tried to escape from Islamic State forces, are rescued by Kurdish Peshmerga forces and...
Thousands of Yezidis trapped in the Sinjar mountains without food and water for days as they tried to escape from Islamic State forces, are rescued...
Thousands of Yezidis trapped in the Sinjar mountains as they tried to escape from Islamic State forces, are rescued by Kurdish Peshmerga forces and...
Yazidis work to lift an engine to salvage it from the rubble of an auto repair shop destroyed by an airstrike on November 16, 2015 in Sinjar, Iraq....
Kurdish Peshmerga soldier searches for weapons in the rubble of an airstrike near a mosque on November 16, 2015 in Sinjar, Iraq. Kurdish forces, with...
Iraqi Kurdish forces attend a flag-raising ceremony at a post office destroyed by an airstrike on November 16, 2015 in Sinjar, Iraq. Kurdish forces,...
Peshmerga soldier walk to place a Kurdish flag near the frontline with ISIL on November 16, 2015 in Sinjar, Iraq. Kurdish forces, with the aid of...
Woman from an Arabic family cries after her family was rejected to enter a Kurdish-controlled area from an ISIS-held village on November 16, 2015...
Girl bundles against the cold while fleeing an ISIL or Daesh-held frontline village on November 16, 2015 to Sinjar, Iraq. Peshmerga forces carefully...
Peshmerga fighter assists families fleeing their frontline village to a Kurdish-controlled area on November 16, 2015 near Sinjar, Iraq. Peshmerga...
Woman from an Arabic family cries after her family was rejected to enter a Kurdish-controlled area from an ISIS-held village on November 16, 2015...
Suspected ISIL or Daesh are detained by Kurdish Peshmerga forces after they fled their frontline village to a Kurdish-controlled area on November 16,...
Civilians flee from their ISIL or Daesh-held frontline village to a Kurdish-controlled area on November 16, 2015 to Sinjar, Iraq. Peshmerga forces...
Kurdish Peshmerga show what they say is a mass grave of more than 50 Yazidis killed by ISIL on November 15, 2015 in Sinjar, Iraq. Kurdish forces,...
Yazidi soldiers cheer a fallen comrade on November 15, 2015 near Sinjar, Iraq. Kurdish forces, with the aid of massive U.S.-led coalition airstrikes,...
Peshmerga forces take positions on November 15, 2015 in Sinjar, Iraq. Kurdish forces, with the aid of massive U.S.-led coalition airstrikes,...
Kurdish Peshmerga soldier passes by tires set afire days before by ISIL extremists to hinder airstrikes on November 15, 2015 in Sinjar, Iraq. Kurdish...
Former Yazidi resident Khalaf Halti walks through the rubble of his neighborhood on November 15, 2015 in Sinjar, Iraq. Kurdish forces, with the aid...
Yazidi refugees celebrating news of the liberation of their homeland of Sinjar from ISIL extremists on November 13, 2015 in Derek, Rojava, Syria....
Yazidi refugees celebrate news of the liberation of their homeland of Sinjar from ISIL extremists, while at a refugee camp on November 13, 2015 in...
Yazidi refugees celebrate news of the liberation of their homeland of Sinjar from ISIL extremists, while at a refugee camp on November 13, 2015 in...
Yazidi refugees celebrate news of the liberation of their homeland of Sinjar from ISIL extremists, while at a refugee camp on November 13, 2015 in...
Year-old Yazidi boy holding AK-47 is seen near the shrine of Yazidi Sheikh Serafettin on Sinjar Mountains on December 19, 2014. Peshmerga fighters...
Peshmerga fighters departed from the Zommar district arrive Sinun town of Sinjar district of Mosul, to fight against Islamic State of Iraq and Levant...
Peshmerga fighters attack Islamic State of Iraq and Levant with missiles during the clashes in Sinun district of Mosul, northern Iraq as Peshmerga...
Peshmerga fighters attack Islamic State of Iraq and Levant with missiles during the clashes in Sinun district of Mosul, northern Iraq as Peshmerga...
Photographer, Adam Ferguson , and New York Times reporter Alissa J. Rubin , injured in a helicopter crash in Sinjar, have been transferred to...
Thousands of Yezidis trapped in the Sinjar mountains without food and water for days, due to the Islamic State violence, formerly known as Islamic...
Thousands of Yezidis trapped in the Sinjar mountains without food and water for days as they tried to escape from Islamic State forces, are rescued...
Thousands of Yezidis trapped in the Sinjar mountains without food and water for days as they tried to escape from Islamic State forces, are rescued...
Thousands of Yezidis trapped in the Sinjar mountains without food and water for days as they tried to escape from Islamic State forces, are rescued...
Thousands of Iraqis flee from the town of Sinjar, near the city of Mosul, to Erbil and Dohuk after armed groups affiliated with the Islamic State of...
Kurdish peshmerga forces keep guard around Tal Afar of Mosul where ISIL, the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant, took hold and cover with fire the...
Many Tal Afar residents, ethnic minority Shiite Turkmen, fled to Sinjar, a town in northwestern Iraq, and took shelter in the school buildings, due...
Actress Nora Navas attends the 'Sinjar' photocall during the 25th Malaga Film Festival day 5 on March 22, 2022 in Malaga, Spain.
Yezidi Shaykh of Sinjar', circa 1906-1913, . Yazidi sheikh from Sinjar, . From "The Caliphs' Last Heritage, a short history of the Turkish Empire" by...
Yezidi family shelter in the shade of a boat after crossing from Syria back into Iraq. Tens of thousands of Yezidi--an minority ethno-religious group...
October 2016 - Sinjar, Iraq. Signs left behind by ISIS in the city are shown by a a PDK spokeperson. Sinjar city had a mixed population of yazidi,...
October 2016 - Sinjar, Iraq. Zummani mass-grave where 300 yazidi are belived to be buried. Sinjar city had a mixed population of yazidi, muslims...
October 2016 - Sinjar, Iraq. Signs left behind by ISIS in the city. Sinjar city had a mixed population of yazidi, muslims kurds and Christians. The...
Mahabat, an Iraqi Yazidi woman from Siba Sheikh Khadir village in Sinjar, sits with two of her five children while waiting to receive a tent from the...
Haso an Iraqi Yazidi laborer who was displaced along with his family from a Yazidi village in Sinjar, sits with his family in the Bajid Kandal camp,...
Yezidi woman carries her son on her back after crossing into Iraq from Syria. Tens of thousands of Yezidi--an minority ethno-religious group in...
Turkish Chief of General Staff Hulusi Akar monitors the air operations towards Iraq's Qandil, Sinjar, Hakurk and Avasin-Basyan regions at Combined...
Turkish Chief of General Staff Hulusi Akar monitors the air operations towards Iraq's Qandil, Sinjar, Hakurk and Avasin-Basyan regions at Combined...
Turkish Chief of General Staff Hulusi Akar monitors the air operations towards Iraq's Qandil, Sinjar, Hakurk and Avasin-Basyan regions at Combined...
Turkish Chief of General Staff Hulusi Akar monitors the air operations towards Iraq's Qandil, Sinjar, Hakurk and Avasin-Basyan regions at Combined...
Turkish Chief of General Staff Hulusi Akar monitors the air operations towards Iraq's Qandil, Sinjar, Hakurk and Avasin-Basyan regions at Combined...
Tomas's mother and siblings. One of the kids is still missing and the family are still expecting to see her again. Thomas, an 11-year old Yazidi boy...
Tomas loves to play football and a fan of Cristiano Ronaldo. His dream is to meet Ronaldo one day. Thomas, an 11-year old Yazidi boy from Shingal,...
Tomas was 8, while he was kidnapped by IS fighters. He hasn't seen his parents in three years. Thomas, an 11-year old Yazidi boy from Shingal, who...
Both of Tomas's legs were broken by an airstrike which hit his house that he hid in. Thomas, an 11-year old Yazidi boy from Shingal, who was...
Abudllah, Tomas father has to pay IS about 50.000 $ and managed to buy 5 of his children. Tomas was the only one that he got back free. Solin, Tomas...
Tomas with his family after 3 years. Thomas, an 11-year old Yazidi boy from Shingal, who was kidnapped by ISIL three years ago, taken away from his...
Thomas, an 11-year old Yazidi boy from Shingal, who was kidnapped by ISIL three years ago, taken away from his parents and held hostage in Mosul...
Solin was kidnapped in the summer of 2014 when she was only six months old. She now resides in Kabart refugee camp outside of Duhok with her two...
He survived on three dates a day. Thomas, an 11-year old Yazidi boy from Shingal, who was kidnapped by ISIL three years ago, taken away from his...
Thomas was the only child to make it out alive. He was carried out by a surrendering ISIL fighter. Thomas, an 11-year old Yazidi boy from Shingal,...
Thomas being rescued and treated by a military medic. In the past few days, more and more children have been either found in the rubble or are...
Tomas loves to play football and a fan of Cristiano Ronaldo. His dream is to meet Ronaldo one day. Thomas, an 11-year old Yazidi boy from Shingal,...
During fightings in the Old City in Mosul, Tomas and the other children had to wear a suicide vest every morning when they wake up. They should be...
Tomas is eventually sent to the Euphrates district of Syria and then to Mosul in Iraq. He and many other children are taught to become IS 'child...
For the last week Thomas was held underground in a tunnel with four other children, all of whom died there from starvation and thirst. Thomas, an...
Thomas and the other children were treated as slaves by IS. They had to cook and make shopping for them. They forced them to not use shoes. In...
Thomas went through a lot of violence and cruelty during these years he had been kidnapped by Islamic state, with help of his family he tries to get...
Thomas seen being rescued by medics. Thomas, an 11-year old Yazidi boy from Shingal, who was kidnapped by ISIL three years ago, taken away from his...
Commander Tirij, commander of YPS units from Sinjar/Irak who fought in Raqqa agains IS. The Syrian civil war has been carried on for more than 6...
View of Kabarto refugee camp, now home to many of the Yazidi forced to flee the city of Sinjar, taken by ISIS on August 3rd then subsequently...
Sinjar, once a joyous city, was plunged into terror. The city was taken by ISIS, and reduced to ruins before the Peshmerga were able to liberate it....
Along the road to Mount Sinjar, torn remnants of clothing mark the passage of the Kurdish Yazidi women who were abducted after the capture of the...
Yazidi cemeteries have mausoleums with distinctive conical roofs intended to symbolize the journey from Earth to Heaven. The Yazidis of Kurdish...
Bombs made by the Islamic State are camouflaged in false rocks. Peshmerga teams collect and disarm these "improvised explosive devices" . The town...
Peshmerga and civilians walk among the ruins of the devastated town of Sinjar after its liberation. They are covering their noses because of the...
The flag of Iraqi Kurdistan flies above the ruins of the devastated town of Sinjar after its liberation. The town was liberated from ISIS on November...
Portrait of a Yazidi refugee from Sinjar, taken in the town of Snuny, between Dohuk and Sinjar. The Yazidis of Kurdish ethnic origin are a religious...
Refugee camp of Cham mishko, between Dohuk and Zakho. View of the camp The Cham mishko refugee camp received many Yazidis who fled the town of...
After the liberation of the city of Sinjar from ISIS, Peshmerga fighters established a new position on the front lines and hoisted the flag of...
Peshmerga gather around a campfire on the battlefront after a fight against the Islamic State to liberate Sinjar. In Kurdish, Peshmerga means...
Naser Pasha Khalaf, Director of Public Relations and Culture of the KDP in Sinjar and its surrounding area, stands in front of one of the former fish...
Peshmerga walks among the ruins of the devastated town of Sinjar after its liberation. The Kurdish word "Peshmerga" is used to refer to those who are...
