IRAQ – 2016 in Review – Part III

IRAQ – 2016 in Review
IRAQ
2016 in Review – Part III
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January 16, 2017 IRAQ - 2016 in Review 1

BATTLE FOR MOSUL BEGINS
January 16, 2017 2
Oct. 17 , 2016
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Photographer
Azad Lashkari
Location
MOSUL, Iraq
Reuters / Monday, October
17, 2016
Smoke rises from clashes
in the east of Mosul during
clashes with Islamic State
militants in Mosul, Iraq.
REUTERS/Azad Lashkari
January 16, 2017 4
Oct. 17 , 2016

.
Iraqi forces deploy in the area
of al-Shourah, about 28 miles
south of Mosul, as they
advance towards the city to
retake it from the Islamic State
group jihadists on Oct. 17.
The massive and complex
military operation will be the
largest in Iraq since American
troops left in 2011 and, if
successful, the biggest blow yet
to ISIS.
AHMAD AL-RUBAYE / AFP -
Getty Images
January 16, 2017 5
Oct. 17 , 2016

A Peshmerga convoy drives
towards a frontline in Khazer on
Oct. 17.
Thousands of Iraq's Kurdish
peshmerga forces advanced on
jihadist-held villages east of
Mosul. On the other side of the
city, Iraqi forces were advancing
from the west and had reached
Hamdaniyah, about 100 miles
from the city, according to a
Joint Operation Command
spokesman.
Bram Janssen / AP
January 16, 2017 6
Oct. 17 , 2016

.
Iraqi Kurdish Peshmerga fighters
hold a position on the top of
Mount Zardak on Oct. 17.
Lt. Gen. Stephen Townsend,
commander of Combined Joint
Task Force Operation Inherent
Resolve, said in a statement that
the operation could take "weeks,
possibly longer."
SAFIN HAMED / AFP - Getty
Images
January 16, 2017 7
Oct. 17 , 2016

Photographer
Azad Lashkari
Location
MOSUL, Iraq
Reuters / Monday, October 17,
2016
Peshmerga forces walk in the
east of Mosul during operation
to attack Islamic State
January 16, 2017 8
Oct. 17 , 2016

Photographer
Stringer .
Location
MOSUL, Iraq
Reuters / Monday,
October 17, 2016
Peshmerga forces are
seen in the east of Mosul
to attack Islamic State
REUTERS/Stringer
January 16, 2017 9
Oct. 17 , 2016

Photographer
Azad Lashkari
Location
MOSUL, Iraq
Reuters / Monday,
October 17, 2016
Peshmerga forces gather
in the east of Mosul to
attack Islamic State
militants in Mosul.
January 16, 2017 10
Oct. 17 , 2016

Photographer
Azad Lashkari
Location
MOSUL, Iraq
2016
Smoke rises from clashes in the
east of Mosul during clashes with
Islamic State militants, Iraq.
January 16, 2017 11
Oct. 17 , 2016

Photographer
Azad Lashkari
Location
MOSUL, Iraq
17, 2016
A member of Peshmerga
forces sits in the back of
the military vehicle in the
east of Mosul during
operation to attack Islamic
State militants in Mosul,
Iraq. REUTERS/Azad
Lashkari
January 16, 2017 12
Oct. 17 , 2016

Photographer
Azad Lashkari
Location
MOSUL, Iraq
2016
Peshmerga forces advance in
the east of Mosul to attack
Islamic State militants in
Mosul, Iraq. REUTERS/Azad
Lashkari
January 16, 2017 13
Oct. 17 , 2016

Photographer
Stringer .
Location
MOSUL, Iraq
Reuters / Monday,
October 17, 2016
Peshmerga forces
gather in the east of
Mosul to attack Islamic
State militants in
Mosul, Iraq.
REUTERS/Stringer
January 16, 2017 14
Oct. 17 , 2016

Photographer
Azad Lashkari
Location
MOSUL, Iraq
17, 2016
Peshmerga forces advance
in the east of Mosul to attack
Mosul, Iraq. REUTERS/Azad
LashkariJanuary 16, 2017 15
Oct. 17 , 2016

Photographer
Azad Lashkari
Location
MOSUL, Iraq
2016
Peshmerga forces with western
forces advance in the east of
Mosul to attack Islamic State
militants in Mosul. REUTERS/Azad
Lashkari
January 16, 2017 16
Oct. 17 , 2016

Photographer
Azad Lashkari
Location
MOSUL, Iraq
17, 2016
Smoke rises from clashes in
the east of Mosul during
militants. REUTERS/Azad
Lashkari
January 16, 2017 17
Oct. 17 , 2016

Photographer
Azad Lashkari
Location
MOSUL, Iraq
17, 2016
Smoke rises from clashes in
Lashkari
January 16, 2017 18
Oct. 17 , 2016

Photographer
Azad Lashkari
Location
MOSUL, Iraq
2016
A member from western forces
stands with his weapon in the
east of Mosul. REUTERS/Azad
Lashkari
January 16, 2017 19
Oct. 17 , 2016

Photographer
Azad Lashkari
Location
MOSUL, Iraq
17, 2016
Peshmerga forces advance in
Mosul. REUTERS/Azad
Lashkari
January 16, 2017 20
Oct. 17 , 2016

Photographer
Azad Lashkari
Location
MOSUL, Iraq
17, 2016
Peshmerga forces gather in
Mosul. REUTERS/Azad
Lashkari
January 16, 2017 21
Oct. 17 , 2016

Photographer
Azad Lashkari
Location
MOSUL, Iraq
17, 2016
Peshmerga forces gather in
Mosul. REUTERS/Azad
Lashkari
January 16, 2017 22
Oct. 17 , 2016

Photographer
Azad Lashkari
Location
MOSUL, Iraq
Reuters / Monday,
October 17, 2016
Peshmerga forces
gather in the east of
State militants in Mosul.
REUTERS/Azad
Lashkari
January 16, 2017 23
Oct. 17 , 2016

Photographer
Azad Lashkari
Location
MOSUL, Iraq
2016
Peshmerga forces gather in the
east of Mosul to attack Islamic
January 16, 2017 24
Oct. 17 , 2016

Photographer
Azad Lashkari
Location
MOSUL, Iraq
17, 2016
A car bomb attack is seen in
Lashkari
January 16, 2017 25
Oct. 17 , 2016

Photographer
Azad Lashkari
Location
MOSUL, Iraq
17, 2016
A member of Peshmerga
forces stands on a military
vehicle in the east of
Mosul. REUTERS/Azad
Lashkari
January 16, 2017 26
Oct. 17 , 2016

Photographer
Azad Lashkari
Location
MOSUL, Iraq
Reuters / Monday,
October 17, 2016
Peshmerga forces
advance in the east of
January 16, 2017 27
Oct. 17 , 2016

Photographer
Azad Lashkari
Location
MOSUL, Iraq
17, 2016
in the east of Mosul during
Lashkari
January 16, 2017 28
Oct. 17 , 2016

Photographer
Azad Lashkari
Location
MOSUL, Iraq
Reuters / Monday,
October 17, 2016
Peshmerga forces
advance in the east of
January 16, 2017 29
Oct. 17 , 2016

Photographer
Azad Lashkari
Location
MOSUL, Iraq
17, 2016
in the east of Mosul
during clashes with
Islamic State militants.
January 16, 2017 30
Oct. 17 , 2016

Supporters of Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr wave national
flags during a demonstration in front of the Turkish Embassy
calling for the immediate withdrawal of Turkish troops from
northern Iraq, in Baghdad, Iraq, Tuesday, Oct. 18, 2016.
Thousands of followers of al-Sadr are demanding the
withdrawal of Turkish troops from a base near the northern
city of Mosul. Turkey says the troops are training Iraqi
fighters to help retake Mosul from the Islamic State group,
and that they are there with the permission of the Iraqi
government. Baghdad denies it granted permission and has
ordered them to withdraw -- a call Ankara has ignored. (AP
Photo/Karim Kadim)
Oct. 18 , 2016

Smoke rises as people flee their homes during clashes between Iraqi security forces and
members of the Islamic State group fleeing Mosul, Iraq, Tuesday, Oct. 18, 2016. The pace of
operations slowed on Tuesday as Iraqi forces began pushing toward larger villages and
encountering civilian populations on the second day of a massive operation to retake the
northern Iraqi city of Mosul from the Islamic State group. (AP Photo)
Oct. 18 , 2016

Smoke rises from Islamic state positions
after an airstrike by coalition forces in
Mosul, Iraq, Tuesday, Oct. 18, 2016. The
pace of operations slowed on Tuesday
as Iraqi forces began pushing toward
larger villages and encountering civilian
populations on the second day of a
massive operation to retake the
northern Iraqi city of Mosul from the
Islamic State group. (AP Photo)
Oct. 18 , 2016

Smoke rises from Islamic state positions after
an airstrike by coalition forces in Mosul, Iraq,
Tuesday, Oct. 18, 2016. The pace of
operations slowed on Tuesday as Iraqi forces
began pushing toward larger villages and
encountering civilian populations on the
second day of a massive operation to retake
the northern Iraqi city of Mosul from the
Islamic State group. (AP Photo)
Oct. 18 , 2016

Iraqi soldiers walk on a road as smoke billows
from the Qayyarah area, about 35 miles south
of Mosul, on Oct. 19, 2016, during an operation
against ISIS to retake the main hub city. In the
biggest Iraqi military operation in years, forces
have retaken dozens of villages, mostly south
and east of Mosul, and are planning multiple
assaults for October 20.
YASIN AKGUL / AFP - Getty Images
Oct. 19 , 2016

. Iraqi army soldiers man a
checkpoint as oil wells burn on the
outskirts of Qayyarah, Iraq on Oct.
19, 2016. A senior Iraqi general on
Wednesday called on Iraqis
fighting for the Islamic State group
in Mosul to surrender as a wide-
scale operation to retake the
militant-held city entered its third
day.
Marko Drobnjakovic / AP-19
Oct. 19 , 2016

An Iraqi forces M109 self-
propelled howitzer fires
towards the village of Tall al-
Tibah, south of Mosul, on Oct.
19, during an operation against
ISIS to retake the main hub
city.
Ahmad Al-Rubaye / AFP - Getty
Images-19
Oct. 19 , 2016

Photographer
Azad Lashkari
Location
MOSUL, Iraq
Reuters / Wednesday,
October 19, 2016
Peshmerga forces stand
around a tunnel used by
Islamic State militants on
the outskirts of Bartila,
east of Mosul during an
Iraq. REUTERS/Azad
Lashkari
Oct. 19 , 2016

Photographer
Stringer .
Location
MOSUL, Iraq
Reuters / Wednesday, October
19, 2016
Displaced people, who are
fleeing from clashes in Al-hud
village, south of Mosul, head
to Qayyarah, during an
State militants in Mosul, Iraq.
REUTERS/Stringer
Oct. 19 , 2016

Photographer
Reuters TV
October 19, 2016
A still image taken from an
Islamic State (IS) video
released through the
group's Amaq news agency
shows an unidentified
militant addressing the
camera. Video said to be
shot in Mosul, Iraq, on
October 18, 2016.
REUTERS/Reuters TV via
Amaq news agency
Oct. 19 , 2016
MOSUL, Iraq

Photographer
Reuters TV
19, 2016
A still image taken from an
Islamic State (IS) video released
through the group's Amaq news
agency claims to show militants
patrolling the streets of Mosul.
Video said to be shot in Mosul,
Iraq, on October 18, 2016.
REUTERS/Reuters TV via Amaq
news agency
Oct. 19 , 2016

Photographer
Alaa Al-Marjani
Location
QAYYARAH, Iraq
October 19, 2016
Iraqi security forces
gesture in Qayyarah,
during an operation to
REUTERS/Alaa Al-
Marjani
Oct. 19 , 2016

Photographer
Alaa Al-Marjani
Location
QAYYARAH, Iraq
October 19, 2016
Iraqi army personnel ride
on a military vehicle in
Qayyarah, during an
Iraq. REUTERS/Alaa Al-
Marjani
Oct. 19 , 2016

Photographer
Alaa Al-Marjani
Location
QAYYARAH, Iraq
October 19, 2016
Smoke rises from a
bomb taken through the
window of a military
vehicle in Qayyarah
REUTERS/Alaa Al-
Marjani
Oct. 19 , 2016

Photographer
Alaa Al-Marjani
Location
QAYYARAH, Iraq
October 19, 2016
Displaced people who are
fleeing from clashes sit at a
military vehicle in
Qayyarah, during an
Iraq. REUTERS/Alaa Al-
Marjani
Oct. 19 , 2016

Photographer
Hamad I Mohammed
Location
MID-SEA, Mid-Sea
19, 2016
An aviation ordnanceman
inspects a bomb on an F/A-
18E Super Hornet just before
take-off for Mosul, Iraq to
provide air-support from the
USS Dwight D. Eisenhower
CVN 69 carrier in Arabia Gulf.
REUTERS/Hamad I
Mohammed
Oct. 19 , 2016

Photographer
Hamad I Mohammed
Location
MID-SEA, Mid-Sea
Reuters / Wednesday, October 19, 2016
An F/A-18E Super Hornet takes off for Mosul, Iraq
to provide air-support from the USS Dwight D.
Eisenhower CVN 69 carrier in Arabia Gulf.
REUTERS/Hamad I Mohammed
Oct. 19 , 2016

Photographer
Azad Lashkari
Location
MOSUL, Iraq
October 19, 2016
Peshmerga forces gather
on the outskirts of Bartila,
east of Mosul, during an
Iraq. REUTERS/Azad
Lashkari
Oct. 19 , 2016

Photographer
Azad Lashkari
Location
MOSUL, Iraq
19, 2016
A member of the Peshmerga
forces inspects homes on the
outskirts of Bartila, east of
Mosul, during an operation to
attack Islamic State militants
in Mosul, Iraq. REUTERS/Azad
Lashkari
Oct. 19 , 2016

Iraqi soldiers advance towards the city of Mosul, Iraq, Wednesday, Oct. 19, 2016. A senior
Iraqi general on Wednesday called on Iraqis fighting for the Islamic State group in Mosul to
surrender as a wide-scale operation to retake the militant-held city entered its third day. (AP
Photo)
Oct. 19 , 2016

Photographer
Zohra Bensemra
Location
DEBAGA, Iraq
19, 2016
Women who recently fled the
Islamic State's stronghold of
Hawija queue to receive food
from Barzani Charity
Foundation (BCF) at the
school at Debaga camp, on the
outskirts of Erbil, Iraq.
REUTERS/Zohra Bensemra
Oct. 19 , 2016

An Iraqi army soldier stands next to a
dead body of an Islamic State fighter
on the outskirts of Qayyarah, Iraq,
Wednesday, Oct. 19, 2016. A senior
Iraqi general on Wednesday called on
Iraqis fighting for the Islamic State
group in Mosul to surrender as a
wide-scale operation to retake the
militant-held city entered its third
day. (AP Photo/Marko Drobnjakovic)
Oct. 19 , 2016

Army soldiers raise their weapons in celebration on the outskirts of Mosul, Iraq, Thursday,
Oct. 20, 2016. Iraqi special forces charged into the Mosul battle Thursday with a pre-dawn
advance on the nearby town held by the Islamic State group, a key part of a multi-pronged
assault on eastern approaches to the besieged city. (AP Photo)
Oct. 20 , 2016
MOSUL, Iraq

Photographer
Ari Jalal
Location
MOSUL, Iraq
Reuters / Thursday,
October 20, 2016
Members of the
Peshmerga forces are
seen inside a military
vehicle north of Mosul,
REUTERS/Ari Jalal
Oct. 20 , 2016

Photographer
Handout .
Location
MOSUL, IRAQ
Reuters / Thursday, October
20, 2016
A still image taken from
video shows a British Royal
Air Force Typhoon jet using a
Paveway IV guided bomb to
destroy a large IS truck-
bomb south of Mosul, Iraq.
UK Ministry of
Defence/Crown
Copyright/Handout via
REUTERS
Oct. 20 , 2016

Photographer
Handout .
Location
MOSUL, IRAQ
20, 2016
A still image taken from video
shows a blast after a British
Royal Air Force Typhoon jet
used a Paveway IV guided
bomb to destroy a large IS
truck-bomb south of Mosul,
Iraq. UK Ministry of
Defence/Crown Copyright
Oct. 20 , 2016

Photographer
Thaier Al-Sudani
Location
MOSUL, Iraq
Reuters / Thursday,
October 20, 2016
Smoke rises from a
bomb attack south of
Mosul, during an
operation to attack
Islamic State militants
in Mosul, Iraq.
REUTERS/Thaier Al-
Sudani
Oct. 20 , 2016

Photographer
Stringer .
Location
MOSUL, Iraq
Reuters / Thursday, October 20,
2016
Iraqi security forces stand
around a tunnel used by Islamic
State militants at Bartila in the
east of Mosul during an attack on
Islamic State militants in Mosul,
Iraq. REUTERS/Stringer
Oct. 20 , 2016

Photographer
Thaier Al-Sudani
Location
MOSUL, Iraq
20, 2016
A member of Iraqi army prays
after the liberation of
Khalidiya village from Islamic
State militants south of
Mosul, during an operation to
attack Islamic State militants
in Mosul, Iraq.
REUTERS/Thaier Al-Sudani
Oct. 20 , 2016

Photographer
Thaier Al-Sudani
Location
MOSUL, Iraq
Reuters / Thursday,
October 20, 2016
Civilians are seen after the
liberation of Khalidiya
village from Islamic State
militants, south of Mosul,
REUTERS/Thaier Al-
Sudani
Oct. 20 , 2016

Photographer
Goran Tomasevic
Location
BARTELLA, IRAQ
20, 2016
An Islamic State suicide
bomber attacks an Iraqi
special forces unit with a
car bomb during clashes in
Bartella, east of Mosul, Iraq.
REUTERS/Goran Tomasevic
Oct. 20 , 2016
BARTELLA, IRAQ

Photographer
Goran Tomasevic
Location
BARTELLA, IRAQ
Reuters / Thursday,
October 20, 2016
An Iraqi special forces
soldier fires an RPG
during clashes with
Islamic States fighters in
Bartella, east of Mosul,
Iraq. REUTERS/Goran
Tomasevic
Oct. 20 , 2016

Photographer
Goran Tomasevic
Location
BARTELLA, IRAQ
Reuters / Thursday,
October 20, 2016
An IED planted by Islamic
States fighters explodes in
front of Iraqi special forces
vehicles in Bartella, east of
Mosul, Iraq.
REUTERS/Goran
Tomasevic
Oct. 20 , 2016

Photographer
Goran Tomasevic
Location
BARTELLA, IRAQ
Reuters / Thursday,
October 20, 2016
Iraqi special forces
soldiers run during
clashes in Bartella, east of
Mosul, Iraq.
REUTERS/Goran
Tomasevic
Oct. 20 , 2016

Photographer
Goran Tomasevic
Location
BARTELLA, IRAQ
20, 2016
An Islamic State suicide
bomber attacks an Iraqi
special forces unit with a car
bomb during clashes in
Oct. 20 , 2016

Photographer
Goran Tomasevic
Location
BARTELLA, IRAQ
20, 2016
soldier fires a rifle during
clashes with Islamic States
fighters in Bartella, east of
Mosul, Iraq.
Oct. 20 , 2016

Photographer
Goran Tomasevic
Location
BARTELLA, IRAQ
20, 2016
soldier fires a cannon at
Oct. 20 , 2016

Photographer
Goran Tomasevic
Location
BARTELLA, IRAQ
20, 2016
An Iraqi journalist reacts after
an Islamic State suicide
bomber attacked an Iraqi
special forces unit with a car
bomb during clashes in
Oct. 20 , 2016

Oct. 20 , 2016

Photographer
Goran Tomasevic
Location
BARTELLA, IRAQ
2016
A mortar round left by Islamic
States fighters is seen in Bartella,
east of Mosul, Iraq.
REUTERS/Goran Tomasevi
Oct. 20 , 2016

Oct. 20 , 2016

Photographer
Goran Tomasevic
Location
BARTELLA, IRAQ
20, 2016
A wounded Iraqi special
forces soldier walks during
clashes with Islamic Sates
Mosul, Iraq. REUTERS/Goran
Tomasevic
Oct. 20 , 2016

Oct. 20 , 2016

Photographer
Goran Tomasevic
Location
BARTELLA, IRQ
Reuters / Thursday, October 20, 2016
Iraqi special forces soldiers run for
cover during clashes with Islamic
States fighters in Bartella, east of
Tomasevic
Oct. 20 , 2016

Photographer
Goran Tomasevic
Location
BARTELLA, IRAQ
2016
An Iraqi special forces soldier
fires a RPG during clashes with
Islamic States fighters in Bartella,
Oct. 20 , 2016

Photographer
Zohra Bensemra
Location
NAWERAN, Iraq
2016
Smoke rises at Islamic State
militants' positions in town of
Naweran near Mosul, Iraq.
Oct. 20 , 2016

Photographer
Handout .
Location
Qayyarah, Iraq
20, 2016
A U.S. Army M109A6 Paladin
self-propelled gun conducts a
fire mission in support of the
Iraqi security forces� push
toward Mosul, at Qayyarah
West, Iraq in a photo released
by the US Army.
REUTERS/U.S. Army/Spc.
Christopher Brecht/Handout
via REUTERS
Oct. 20 , 2016

Photographer
Zohra Bensemra
Location
NAWERAN, Iraq
20, 2016
Peshmerga forces fire an anti-
aircraft gun towards Islamic
state militants positions in the
town of Naweran near Mosul.
Oct. 20 , 2016

Photographer
Zohra Bensemra
Location
NAWERAN, Iraq
2016
Peshmerga forces walk towards
Islamic State militants' positions in
town of Naweran near Mosul, Iraq.
Oct. 20 , 2016

Photographer
Alaa Al-Marjani
Location
ERBIL, Iraq
Reuters / Thursday, October 20, 2016
A displaced woman who fled Islamic
State militants from Mosul speaks
with her husband through a fence at
Deepaka camp in the northwest of
Erbil, Iraq. According to the woman's
husband, he was detained on
suspicion of being a member of the
Islamic State, and was subsequently
freed, but is not allowed inside the
camp. REUTERS/Alaa Al-Marjani
Oct. 20 , 2016

Photographer
Alaa Al-Marjani
Location
ERBIL, Iraq
2016
A displaced boy who is injured
by bomb attack in Mosul, poses
for picture at Deepaka camp in
the northwest of Erbil, Iraq.
REUTERS/Alaa Al-Marjani
Oct. 20 , 2016

Photographer
Alaa Al-Marjani
Location
ERBIL, Iraq
2016
Displaced people who fled
Islamic State militants from
Mosul receive aid at Deepaka
camp in the northwest of Erbil,
Iraq. REUTERS/Alaa Al-Marjani
Oct. 20 , 2016

Photographer
Alaa Al-Marjani
Location
ERBIL, Iraq
Reuters / Thursday,
October 20, 2016
A displaced woman who
fled from Islamic State
militants in Mosul holds
her baby at Deepaka
camp in the northwest of
Erbil, Iraq.
Oct. 20 , 2016

Photographer
Handout .
Location
QAYYARAH, Iraq
Reuters / Friday, October 21, 2016
School desks are seen on the roof of
the Romana school as smoke rises
near Qayyarah, south of Mosul, Iraq.
Ruairidh Villar/Save the
Children/Handout via REUTERS
Oct. 21 , 2016

Photographer
Zohra Bensemra
Location
QAYYARA, Iraq
Reuters / Friday, October
21, 2016
Iraqi army soldiers keep
guard over suspected
Islamic State militants at a
processing center for
displaced people in
Qayyara, south of Mosul.
Oct. 21 , 2016

Newly displaced people wait to
receive food supplies at a
processing center for displaced
people In Qayyara, south of
Mosul, Iraq on Oct. 21.
ZOHRA BENSEMRA / Reuters
Oct. 21 , 2016

Photographer
Thaier Al-Sudani
Location
MOSUL, Iraq
Reuters / Friday, October 21,
2016
Iraqi army gather after the
liberation of a village from
Islamic State militants, south
of Mosul, as toxic smoke is
seen over the area after
Islamic State militants set fire
to a sulphur factory.
REUTERS/Thaier Al-Sudan
Oct. 21 , 2016

Photographer
Azad Lashkari
Location
MOSUL, Iraq
21, 2016
An unexploded mortar
round is seen during an
operation to attack
Mosul, Iraq.
Oct. 21 , 2016

Photographer
Azad Lashkari
Location
MOSUL, Iraq
21, 2016
An armored car damaged
by a bomb, which
Peshmerga sources say
was driven by media, is
seen in Targella village
near Khaser, east of
Mosul, Iraq.
Oct. 21 , 2016

Photographer
Thaier Al-Sudani
Location
MOSUL, Iraq
21, 2016
Iraqi army gather after the
liberation a village from
Islamic State militants,
south of Mosul.
REUTERS/Thaier Al-Sudan
Oct. 21 , 2016

Photographer
Goran Tomasevic
Location
BARTELLA, IRAQ
21, 2016
soldiers walk inside a
church damaged by
Iraq. REUTERS/Goran
Tomasevic
Oct. 21 , 2016

Photographer
Goran Tomasevic
Location
BARTELLA, IRAQ
21, 2016
Iraqi special forces soldiers
look at Christian religious
books inside a church
damaged by Islamic States
Mosul, Iraq.
REUTERS/Goran
Tomasevic
Oct. 21 , 2016

Photographer
Goran Tomasevic
Location
BARTELLA, IRAQ
21, 2016
soldiers search a
building located inside a
church compound in
Iraq. REUTERS/Goran
Tomasevic
Oct. 21 , 2016

Photographer
Goran Tomasevic
Location
BARTELLA, IRAQ
2016
soldier stands in a Christian
cemetery inside a church
compound damaged by
Oct. 21 , 2016

Photographer
Goran Tomasevic
Location
BARTELLA, IRAQ
2016
pose for a photograph in
front of a Islamic States
drawing inside a building
located inside a church
compound in Bartella, east of
Mosul. REUTERS/Goran
Tomasevic
Oct. 21 , 2016

Iraqi Kurdish Peshmerga
fighters clean their weapons
outside Bartella, Iraq, Friday,
Oct. 21, 2016. By Thursday,
the Iraqi forces had advanced
as far as Bartella, a
historically Christian town
some nine miles (15
kilometers) from Mosul's
outskirts. (AP Photo/ Khalid
Mohammed)
Oct. 21 , 2016

Islamic State graffiti that reads:
"There is no God but Allah,
Muhammad is the Messenger of
Allah - Islamic State," is seen
inside the main church in Bartella,
Iraq, Friday, Oct. 21, 2016. By
Thursday, the Iraqi forces had
advanced as far as Bartella, a
historically Christian town some
nine miles (15 kilometers) from
Mosul's outskirts. (AP
Photo/Khalid Mohammed)
Oct. 21 , 2016

Photographer
Goran Tomasevic
Location
BARTELLA, IRAQ
Reuters / Friday, October 21, 2016
An Iraqi special forces soldiers
waves an Iraqi flag from top of a
church damaged by Islamic
States fighters in Bartella, east of
Tomasevic
Oct. 21 , 2016

Photographer
Goran Tomasevic
Location
BARTELLA, IRAQ
Reuters / Saturday, October
22, 2016
A Christian Iraqi special
forces soldier walks in a
church in Bartella, east of
Mosul, Iraq.
REUTERS/Goran
Tomasevic
Oct. 22 , 2016

Photographer
Alaa Al-Marjani
Location
QAYYARA, Iraq
Reuters / Saturday, October 22,
2016
A man returns to his village
after it was liberated from
Islamic State militants, south of
Mosul in Qayyara, Iraq. The
fumes in the background are
from oil wells that were set
ablaze by Islamic State
militants. REUTERS/Alaa Al-
Marjani
Oct. 22 , 2016

Iraqi refugees who fled
Mosul, the last major Iraqi
city under the control of
ISIS, arrive in the desert
area of Rajam al-Saliba on
the Iraq-Syria border on
Oct. 22, 2016.
DELIL SOULEIMAN / AFP -
Getty Images-24
Oct. 22 , 2016

Refugees arrive at a camp in the town of Qayyarah, south of Mosul, on Oct. 22.
BULENT KILIC / AFP - Getty Images-24
Oct. 22 , 2016

One of the camps at the Debaka
refugee camp, on the outskirts of Erbil,
on Oct. 22.
AMEL PAIN / EPA-24
Oct. 22, 2016

A refugee boy carries blankets following his arrival in the desert area of
Rajam al-Saliba on the Iraq-Syria border south of al-Hol in Syria's
Hassakeh province on Oct. 22.
DELIL SOULEIMAN / AFP - Getty Images-24
Oct. 22 , 2016

. Tents in Debaga refugee camp on Oct. 22.
Carl Court / Getty Images
Oct. 22 , 2016

An Iraqi displaced child, sick with
fever, lies down as her relatives, who
fled from ISIS held town of Hawija
near Kirkuk, receive food at a school
building in the Debaka refugee camp
on Oct. 22.
AMEL PAIN / EPA-24
Oct. 22 , 2016

A displaced Iraqi boy holds a
pigeon a ta refugee camp in
the town of Qayyarah, south
of Mosul, as an operation to
recapture the city of Mosul
from ISIS takes place.
BULENT KILIC / AFP - Getty
Images-23
Oct. 23 , 2016

An Iraqi forces member helps a
displaced man push a car as they arrive
at a refugee camp in the town of
Qayyarah, south of Mosul.
Oct. 23 , 2016

Iraqi forces distribute fruits to children in
the village of al-Khuwayn, south of Mosul,
after recapturing the village from ISIS on
Oct. 23.
AHMAD AL-RUBAYE / AFP - Getty Images-
24
Oct. 23 , 2016

Photographer
Azad Lashkari
Location
NAWERAN, Iraq
Reuters / Sunday,
October 23, 2016
Smoke rises at Islamic
State militants' positions
in the town of Naweran,
near Mosul, Iraq.
Oct. 23 , 2016

A member of Iraq's elite counterterrorism rings
the bell in the church of Saint Shmoni, damaged
by Islamic State fighters, in Bartella, Iraq, Sunday,
Oct. 23, 2016. Iraqi forces captured Bartella,
around 15 kilometers (9 miles) east of Mosul. (AP
Photo/Khalid Mohammed)
Oct. 23 , 2016

Weapons belonging to resting
members of Iraq's elite
counterterrorism forces are
placed near a depiction of the
Last Supper, damaged by
Islamic State fighters, at a
house in Bartella, Iraq, Sunday,
Oct. 23, 2016. Iraqi forces
captured Bartella, around 15
kilometers (9 miles) east of
Mosul. (AP Photo/Khalid
Mohammed)
Oct. 23 , 2016

A man tends to a flock of sheep as thick smoke is seen on the horizon in Qayyarah, about 31
miles (50 km) south of Mosul, Iraq, Sunday, Oct. 23, 2016. Islamic State fighters torched a
sulfur plant south of Mosul, sending a cloud of toxic fumes into the air that mingled with oil
wells the militants had lit on fire to create a smoke screen. (AP Photo/Marko Drobnjakovic)Oct. 23 , 2016

A member of the Iraqi security forces gets medical attention after inhaling sulfur fumes, at a
hospital in Qayyarah, about 31 miles (50 km) south of Mosul, Iraq, Sunday, Oct. 23, 2016.
Islamic State fighters torched a sulfur plant south of Mosul, sending a cloud of toxic fumes
into the air that mingled with oil wells the militants had lit on fire to create a smoke screen.
(AP Photo/Marko Drobnjakovic)
Oct. 23 , 2016

A boy gets his skin treated for
sulfur burns at a hospital in
Qayyarah, about 31 miles (50 km)
south of Mosul, Iraq, Sunday, Oct.
23, 2016. Islamic State fighters
torched a sulfur plant south of
Mosul, sending a cloud of toxic
fumes into the air that mingled
with oil wells the militants had lit
on fire to create a smoke screen.
(AP Photo/Marko Drobnjakovic)
Oct. 23 , 2016

Internally displaced
persons sit at a checkpoint
as smoke rises from the
burning oil wells in
Qayyarah, about 31 miles
(50 km) south of Mosul,
Iraq, Sunday, Oct. 23,
2016. Islamic State fighters
torched a sulfur plant
south of Mosul, sending a
cloud of toxic fumes into
the air that mingled with
oil wells the militants had
lit on fire to create a
smoke screen. (AP
Photo/Marko
Drobnjakovic)
Oct. 23 , 2016

In this Sunday, Oct. 23, 2016 photo, people watch a burning oil well in Qayyarah, about 31
miles (50 km) south of Mosul, Iraq. In the week since Iraq launched an operation to retake
Mosul from the Islamic State group, its forces have pushed toward the city from the north,
east and south, battling the militants in a belt of mostly uninhabited towns and villages. In
the heavily mined approaches to the city they met with fierce resistance, as IS unleashed
suicide truck bombs, rockets and mortars. (AP Photo/Marko Drobnjakovic)
Oct. 23 , 2016

Photographer
Azad Lashkari
Location
NAWERAN, Iraq
Reuters / Sunday, October 23,
2016
A Kurdish peshmerga fighter
shoots during an operation to
attack Islamic State militants in
the town of Naweran, near
Mosul. REUTERS/Azad Lashkari
Oct. 23 , 2016

. Smoke rises after a U.S.
airstrike as the Iraqi army pushes
into Topzawa village, near
Mosul, on Oct. 24.
AHMED JADALLAH / Reuters-24
Oct. 24 , 2016

Iraqi forces flash the victory sign as they stand
on an infantry fighting vehicle loaded on a truck
driving through the Al-Shura area, south of
Mosul, on Oct. 24.
Iraqi forces advancing on Mosul faced stiff
resistance from the Islamic State group
Monday, despite the U.S.-led coalition
unleashing an unprecedented wave of air
strikes to support the week-old offensive.
Federal forces and Kurdish peshmerga fighters
were moving forward in several areas, AFP
correspondents on various fronts said, but the
jihadists were hitting back with shelling, sniper
fire, suicide car bombs and booby traps.
AHMAD AL-RUBAYE / AFP - Getty Images-24
Oct. 24 , 2016

Photographer
Ahmed Jadallah
Location
BASHIQA, Iraq
2016
A Kurdish Peshmerga fighter is
seen bloodied following a road
side bomb on their vehicle
during a battle with Islamic
State militants at Topzawa
village near Bashiqa, near
Mosul, Iraq. REUTERS/Ahmed
Jadallah
Oct. 24 , 2016

.
Iraqi families displaced by the
ongoing operation by Iraqi forces
to retake the city of Mosul from
ISIS gather in an area near
Qayyarah on Oct. 24.
The UN refugee agency is
preparing to receive 150,000
Iraqis fleeing fighting around
Mosul within the next few days,
its chief said.
BULENT KILIC / AFP - Getty
Images
Oct. 24 , 2016

Bullet holes are visible in the window a
truck driven by Iraqi soldiers as
displaced families gather near Qayyarah
on Oct. 24.
Oct. 24 , 2016

A displaced woman holds a child near Qayyarah on Oct. 24.
Oct. 24 , 2016

Women and children displaced by
the conflict gather near Qayyarah on
Oct. 24.
The Mosul campaign, which aims to
crush the Iraqi half of the caliphate
declared by ISIS in Iraq and Syria,
may be the biggest battle yet in the
13 years of turmoil triggered by the
U.S.-led invasion of Iraq in 2003, and
could require a massive
humanitarian relief operation.
Some 1.5 million residents remain in
the city and worst-case forecasts see
up to a million being uprooted,
according to the United Nations.
U.N. aid agencies said the fighting
has so far forced about 6,000 to flee
their homes.
BULENT KILIC / AFP - Getty Images-
24
Oct. 24 , 2016

Displaced Iraqi families gather near
Qayyarah on Oct. 24.
BULENT KILIC / AFP - Getty Images-
24
Oct. 24 , 2016

Oct. 24 , 2016

A girl sits on a pile of mattresses at a
camp for displaced families in
Dibaga, near Mosul, Iraq, Monday,
Oct. 24, 2016. The campaign to
retake Mosul comes after months of
planning and involves more than
25,000 Iraqi troops, Kurdish forces,
Sunni tribal fighters and state-
sanctioned Shiite militias. It is
expected to take weeks, if not
months, to drive Islamic State
militants out of Iraq's second largest
city, which is still home to more
than a million people. (AP
Photo/Marko Drobnjakovic)
Oct. 24 , 2016

People gather as aid is being distributed
at a camp for displaced families in
Dibaga, near Mosul, Iraq, Monday, Oct.
24, 2016. The campaign to retake Mosul
comes after months of planning and
involves more than 25,000 Iraqi troops,
Kurdish forces, Sunni tribal fighters and
state-sanctioned Shiite militias. It is
expected to take weeks, if not months,
to drive Islamic State militants out of
Iraq's second largest city, which is still
home to more than a million people. (AP
Oct. 24 , 2016

Photographer
Ahmed Jadallah
Location
BASHIQA, Iraq
2016
A Kurdish Peshmerga fighter
aims to fire during a battle with
Islamic State militants at
Topzawa village, near Bashiqa,
near Mosul, Iraq.
REUTERS/Ahmed Jadallah
Oct. 24 , 2016

Photographer
Ahmed Jadallah
Location
BASHIQA, Iraq
24, 2016
The wreckage of a Kurdish
Peshmerga fighters' vehicle,
which was destroyed by a
roadside bomb explosion, is
seen near a shell during a
battle with Islamic State
militants at Topzawa village,
near Bashiqa, near Mosul.
Oct. 24 , 2016

Photographer
Ahmed Jadallah
Location
BASHIQA, Iraq
2016
Smoke rises after an U.S.
airstrike, while the Iraqi army
pushes into Topzawa village
during the operation against
Islamic State militants near
Bashiqa, near Mosul, Iraq
October 24, 2016.
Oct. 24 , 2016

Photographer
Alaa Al-Marjani
Location
QAYYARA, Iraq
Reuters / Tuesday, October 25, 2016
American soldiers are seen at the
U.S. army base in Qayyara, south of
Mosul October 25, 2016.
Oct. 25 , 2016

Photographer
Alaa Al-Marjani
Location
QAYYARA, Iraq
An American soldier takes his
position at the U.S. army base in
Qayyara, south of Mosul October 25,
2016. REUTERS/Alaa Al-Marjani
Oct. 25 , 2016

Photographer
Alaa Al-Marjani
Location
QAYYARA, Iraq
Reuters / Tuesday, October
25, 2016
An American soldier is
seen inside the U.S. army
base in Qayyara, south of
Mosul October 25, 2016.
Oct. 25 , 2016

Photographer
Alaa Al-Marjani
Location
QAYYARA, Iraq
Reuters / Tuesday,
October 25, 2016
American vehicles
drive at the U.S. army
base in Qayyara, south
of Mosul October 25,
2016. REUTERS/Alaa
Al-Marjani
Oct. 25 , 2016

.
runs as other drive in
armored vehicles on a road
near Mosul, Iraq.
GORAN TOMASEVIC / Reuters
Oct. 25 , 2016

An Iraqi refugee who fled Mosul, the last major
Iraqi city under the control of the Islamic State
group, due to the Iraqi government forces
offensive to retake the city, looks to the sky at
the UN-run Al-Hol refugee camp in Syria's
Hasakeh province. Despite the war that is
ravaging Syria and has displaced millions of its
residents, the Iraqis are desperate to reach the
UN-run Al-Hol refugee camp in Syria's Hasakeh
province, where many are still trapped on the
border between Iraq and Syria under jihadist
fire.
DELIL SOULEIMAN / AFP - Getty Images
Oct. 25 , 2016

Photographer
Zohra Bensemra
Location
DEBAGA, Iraq
A boy sits as fighters who were
displaced by Islamic State gather at
Debaga camp on the outskirts of
Erbil, Iraq, before heading to the
front line for the Mosul offensive
against the group. REUTERS/Zohra
Bensemra
Oct. 25 , 2016

Photographer
Goran Tomasevic
Location
HASSAN SHAM, IRAQ
Reuters / Tuesday, October
25, 2016
Internally displaced children
sit in a car near Hassan
Sham, east of Mosul, Iraq.
Oct. 25 , 2016

Photographer
Zohra Bensemra
Location
DEBAGA, Iraq
Reuters / Tuesday, October 25,
2016
Fighters gather at Debaga
camp on the outskirts of Erbil,
before heading to the front line
for the Mosul offensive.
Oct. 25 , 2016

Photographer
Goran Tomasevic
Location
MOSUL, IRAQ
2016
looks at a destroyed Islamic
State vehicle in a village near
Tomasevic
Oct. 25 , 2016

Photographer
Zohra Bensemra
Location
QAYYARA, Iraq
2016
A newly displaced woman runs
after she jumped over a back wall
and rushed to grab humanitarian
packages, as smoke rises from a
burning oil refinery at a
processing centre in Qayyara,
south of Mosul, Iraq.
Oct. 25 , 2016

Mideast Iraq
A handcuffed suspected Islamic State
militant sits outside his house as Iraq's
elite counterterrorism forces fight
against Islamic State militants, in the
village of Tob Zawa, about 9 kilometers
(5½ miles) from Mosul, Iraq, Tuesday,
Oct. 25, 2016. Iraqi forces battled
Islamic State fighters for a third day in a
remote western town far from Mosul
on Tuesday, but the U.S.-led coalition
insisted the latest in a series of "spoiler
attacks" had not forced it to divert
resources from the fight to retake Iraq's
second-largest city. (AP Photo/Khalid
Mohammed)
Oct. 25 , 2016

Mideast Iraq
Soldiers give the first aid to a
boy injured during the clashes
between Iraq's elite
counterterrorism forces and
Islamic State militia in the
village of Tob Zawa, about 9
kilometers (5¬Ω miles) from
Mosul, Iraq, Tuesday, Oct. 25,
2016. Iraqi forces battled Islamic
State fighters for a third day in a
remote western town far from
Mosul on Tuesday, but the U.S.-
led coalition insisted the latest
in a series of "spoiler attacks"
had not forced it to divert
resources from the fight to
retake Iraq's second-largest city.
(AP Photo/Qassim Abdul-Zahra)
Oct. 25 , 2016

An Iraqi Federal Police vehicle passes through a
checkpoint in Qayara, some 50 kilometers south
of Mosul, Iraq, Wednesday, Oct. 26, 2016. Islamic
State militants have been going door to door in
farming communities south of Mosul, ordering
people at gunpoint to follow them north into the
city and apparently using them as human shields
as they retreat from Iraqi forces. Witnesses to the
forced evacuation describe scenes of chaos as
hundreds of people were driven north across the
Ninevah plains and into the heavily-fortified city,
where the extremists are believed to be
preparing for a climactic showdown. (AP
Oct. 26 , 2016

Iraqi army soldiers rest at a checkpoint
in Qayara, some 30 miles south of
Mosul, Iraq.
ISIS militants have been going door to
door in farming communities south of
Mosul, ordering people at gunpoint to
follow them north into the city and
apparently using them as human
shields as they retreat from Iraqi
forces. Witnesses to the forced
evacuation describe scenes of chaos as
hundreds of people were driven north
across the Ninevah plains and into the
heavily-fortified city, where the
extremists are believed to be preparing
for a climactic showdown.
Marko Drobnjakovic / AP
Oct. 26 , 2016

Photographer
Stringer .
Location
MOSUL, Iraq
Reuters / Wednesday, October 26,
2016
Federal police forces launch a
rocket during clashes with Islamic
State militants in south of Mosul.
REUTERS/Stringer
Oct. 26 , 2016

.
Displaced Iraqis who recently fled the city of
Mosul greet relatives who fled two years ago at
the refugee camp in the Khazer area, near the
Kurdish checkpoint of Aksi Kalak, some 25 miles
east of Irbil, Iraq.
Lise Grande, the U.N. humanitarian coordinator
for Iraq, said the military operations to retake
Mosul from ISIS could spark the largest
humanitarian crisis in 2016 as the security
situation in the area restrains aid agencies'
ability to deliver help.
BULENT KILIC / AFP - Getty Images
Oct. 26 , 2016

Photographer
Goran Tomasevic
Location
QAYYARA, IRAQ
26, 2016
A detained man accused of
being an Islamic State fighter
sits in front of newly displaced
men near a check point in
Qayyara, east of Mosul, Iraq.
Oct. 26 , 2016

Photographer
Stringer .
Location
MOSUL, Iraq
Iraqi security forces take part in an
operation against Islamic State militants in
south of Mosul. REUTERS/Stringer
Oct. 26 , 2016

Photographer
Zohra Bensemra
Location
BAZGIRTAN, Iraq
2016
waves to a group of newly trained
police formed from people
displaced by Islamic State militants,
as the group sits on a truck bound
for the frontline of the Mosul
offensive against Islamic State, near
Bazgirtan. REUTERS/Zohra
Bensemra
Oct. 26 , 2016

Photographer
Ari Jalal
Location
NAWARAN, Iraq
26, 2016
Displaced people who are fleeing
from clashes in Nawaran north of
Mosul during an operation to
attack Islamic State militants,
Iraq. REUTERS/Ari Jalal
Oct. 26 , 2016

Photographer
Alaa Al-Marjani
Location
QAYYARA, Iraq
2016
A federal police forces member
uses a drone during an operation
against Islamic State militants in
Qayyara, south of Mosul.
Oct. 26 , 2016

Photographer
Goran Tomasevic
Location
QAYYARA, IRAQ
October 26, 2016
Newly displaced men sit at a
check point in Qayyara, east
of Mosul, Iraq.
Oct. 26 , 2016

Photographer
Goran Tomasevic
Location
QAYYARA, IRAQ
October 26, 2016
Newly displaced people sit
at check point in Qayyara,
Oct. 26 , 2016

Photographer
Goran Tomasevic
Location
QAYYARA, IRAQ
2016
A newly displaced boy cries as an
Iraqi soldier loads him onto a truck
at check point in Qayyara, east of
Tomasevic
Oct. 26 , 2016

Photographer
Goran Tomasevic
Location
QAYYARA, IRAQ
October 26, 2016
A newly displaced woman
carries her child at a check
point in Qayyara, east of
Mosul, Iraq.
Oct. 26 , 2016

Photographer
Goran Tomasevic
Location
QAYYARA, IRAQ
26, 2016
An Iraqi soldier stands in front
of newly displaced people at
check point in Qayyara, east of
Tomasevic
Oct. 26 , 2016

Photographer
Alaa Al-Marjani
Location
QAYYARA, Iraq
October 26, 2016
Federal police forces drive
military vehicles during an
operation against Islamic
State militants in Qayyara,
south of Mosul.
Oct. 26 , 2016

Photographer
Stringer .
Location
MOSUL, Iraq
26, 2016
Federal police forces take part in
an operation against Islamic
State militants in south of Mosul.
REUTERS/Stringer
Oct. 26 , 2016

Photographer
Zohra Bensemra
Location
HASAN SHAM, Iraq
October 26, 2016
A view of Al Khazar
camps for newly
internally displaced
people near Hassan
Sham, east of Mosul,
Iraq. REUTERS/Zohra
Bensemra
Oct. 26 , 2016

Photographer
Zohra Bensemra
Location
HASAN SHAM, Iraq
26, 2016
An internally displaced man
carries his child upon his arrival
at Al Khazar camp near Hassan
Oct. 26 , 2016

Photographer
Zohra Bensemra
Location
HASAN SHAM, Iraq
October 26, 2016
Newly internally displaced
boys carry mattresses
upon their arrival at Al
Khazar camp near Hassan
REUTERS/Zohra
Bensemra
Oct. 26 , 2016

Photographer
Zohra Bensemra
Location
HASAN SHAM, Iraq
A newly internally displaced man is
seen at Al Khazar camp near Hassan
Oct. 26 , 2016

Photographer
Zohra Bensemra
Location
Bazwaia, Iraq
Reuters / Thursday,
October 27, 2016
soldier is seen inside a
tunnel used by Islamic
State militants in Bazwaia,
REUTERS/Zohra
Bensemra
Oct. 27 , 2016

Photographer
Zohra Bensemra
Location
Bazwaia, Iraq
27, 2016
looks inside the entrance of a
tunnel used by Islamic State
militants inside a restaurant
in Bazwaia, east of Mosul,
Iraq. REUTERS/Zohra
Bensemra
Oct. 27 , 2016

Photographer
Zohra Bensemra
Location
Bazwaia, Iraq
27, 2016
soldier walks inside a
militants in Bazwaia, east of
Mosul, Iraq.
Oct. 27 , 2016

Photographer
Zohra Bensemra
Location
Bazwaia, Iraq
27, 2016
is seen inside a tunnel used
by Islamic State militants in
Bazwaia, east of Mosul, Iraq.
Oct. 27 , 2016

Photographer
Zohra Bensemra
Location
BARTALLA, Iraq
27, 2016
soldier climbs down into a
militants inside a house in
Bartalla, east of Mosul, Iraq.
Oct. 27 , 2016

Photographer
Zohra Bensemra
Location
Bazwaia, Iraq
2016
is seen inside a tunnel used by
Oct. 27 , 2016

Photographer
Zohra Bensemra
Location
BAZWAYA, Iraq
27, 2016
soldier checks detonation
devices at a factory used by
Islamic State militants to
manufacture home made
bombs in Bazwaya, east of
Mosul, Iraq. REUTERS/Zohra
Bensemra
Oct. 27 , 2016

Photographer
Zohra Bensemra
Location
Bazwaia, Iraq
27, 2016
are seen inside a tunnel used
by Islamic State militants in
Oct. 27 , 2016

Photographer
Zohra Bensemra
Location
BAZWAYA, Iraq
2016
stands in a factory used by
Islamic State militants to
manufacture home made bombs
in Bazwaya, east of Mosul, Iraq.
Oct. 27 , 2016

Photographer
Zohra Bensemra
Location
Bazwaia, Iraq
Reuters / Thursday,
October 27, 2016
soldier is seen inside a
tunnel used by Islamic
State militants in Bazwaia,
REUTERS/Zohra
Bensemra
Oct. 27 , 2016

Photographer
Ari Jalal
Location
NAWARAN, Iraq
2016
takes a selfie with children after
recapturing the Fadiliya village
from Islamic state militants, in
Nawaran North of Mosul.
REUTERS/Air Jalal
Oct. 27 , 2016

Photographer
Ari Jalal
Location
NAWARAN, Iraq
2016
looks through a Milan missile
before recapturing from Islamic
state militants the Fadiliya
village in Nawaran, north of
Mosul. REUTERS/Air Jalal
Oct. 27 , 2016

Photographer
Ari Jalal
Location
NAWARAN, Iraq
27, 2016
Smoke raises after Kurdish
Peshmerga fighters disabled
IED�s and recaptured from
Islamic state militants the
Fadiliya village in Nawaran,
north of Mosul. REUTERS/Air
Jalal
Oct. 27 , 2016

Iraq Mosul
Abdel el Razak Talab carries a
gravestone at a graveyard damaged
by Islamic State extremists in
Qayara, some 31 miles, 50 km,
south of Mosul, Iraq, Thursday, Oct.
27, 2016. When IS overran Qayara
more than two years ago, the
extremist group began destroying
headstones at the local graveyard,
telling residents they were
forbidden because they did not
exist at the time of the prophet. (AP
Photo/Marko Drobnjakovic)-27
Oct. 27 , 2016

Photographer
Zohra Bensemra
Location
BARTILLA, Iraq
Reuters / Thursday,
October 27, 2016
soldier stands beside
graffiti, which reads: "The
Islamic State will remain",
in Bartilla, east of Mosul,
Iraq. REUTERS/Zohra
Bensemra
Oct. 27 , 2016

Photographer
Goran Tomasevic
Location
QAYYARA, IRAQ
2016
An Iraqi soldier stands next to a
detained man accused of being
an Islamic State fighter, at a
check point in Qayyara, south
of Mosul, Iraq. REUTERS/Goran
Tomasevic
Oct. 27 , 2016

Photographer
Handout .
Location
MOSUL, Iraq
27, 2016
A French Dassault Rafale jet
receives fuel from a U.S. Air
Force KC-10 tanker aircraft
near Iraq. U.S. Air
Force/Senior Airman Tyler
Woodward
Oct. 27 , 2016

Photographer
Zohra Bensemra
Location
HASAN SHAM, Iraq
2016
A Kurdish female Peshmerga
soldier carries a newly internally
displaced boy as he cries upon
his arrival at Al Khazar camp
near Hassan Sham, east of
Mosul. REUTERS/Zohra
Bensemra
Oct. 28 , 2016

Photographer
Ahmed Jadallah
Location
JARBUAH, Iraq
2016
Ismail, an Iraqi boy who
managed to escape from the
Islamic State-controlled
Jarbuah village near Mosul and
arrived at the Kurdish
Peshmerga military camp,
breaks down in tears while
recalling his experience, in
Iraq. REUTERS/Ahmed Jadallah
Oct. 28 , 2016

Photographer
Zohra Bensemra
Location
HASAN SHAM, Iraq
2016
Newly internally displaced
people sit upon their arrival
at Al Khazar camp near
Hassan Sham, east of
Mosul. REUTERS/Zohra
Bensemra
Oct. 28 , 2016

Photographer
Zohra Bensemra
Location
HASAN SHAM, Iraq
2016
An internally displaced girl is
pictured inside a tent at Al
Khazar camp near Hassan
Sham, east of Mosul.
Oct. 28 , 2016

Photographer
Goran Tomasevic
Location
QAYYARA, IRAQ
26, 2016
A newly displaced young man
carries a boy as he walks towards
a check point in Qayyara, east of
Tomasevic
Oct. 26 , 2016
GALLERY PHOTOS

Photographer
Goran Tomasevic
Location
AL-SHURA, IRAQ
Reuters / Saturday, October 29,
2016
A member of Iraqi special forces
police runs for cover during
fighters in al-Shura, south of
Tomasevic
Oct. 29 , 2016

A member of Iraqi armed forces
kisses a local boy after Iraqi
forces entered the town of
Shura, some 30 kilometers
south of Mosul, Iraq. Iraqi
troops approaching Mosul from
the south advanced into Shura
on Saturday after a wave of U.S.
led airstrikes and artillery
shelling against Islamic State
positions inside town.
Marko Drobnjakovic / AP
Oct. 29 , 2016

Popular Mobilization Forces fire
artillery during clashes with
Islamic State militants south of
Mosul.
STRINGER / Reuters-29
Oct. 29 , 2016

Photographer
Goran Tomasevic
Location
AL-SHURA, IRAQ
Reuters / Saturday,
October 29, 2016
Members of Iraqi special
police force stand
during clashes with
Islamic State fighters in
al-Shura, south of
Tomasevic
Oct. 29 , 2016

Photographer
Goran Tomasevic
Location
AL-SHURA, IRAQ
29, 2016
An Iraqi airforce helicopter
fires missiles at Islamic
State fighters in al-Shura,
south of Mosul.
Oct. 29, 2016

Photographer
Goran Tomasevic
Location
AL-SHURA, IRAQ
Reuters / Saturday,
October 29, 2016
Members of Iraqi
special forces police
unit fire their weapons
at Islamic State fighters
in al-Shura, south of
Tomasevic
Oct. 29 , 2016

Photographer
Goran Tomasevic
Location
AL-SHURA, IRAQ
29, 2016
A member of Iraqi special
forces police fires rifles
during clashes with Islamic
State fighters in al-Shura,
south of Mosul.
Oct. 29 , 2016

.
Peshmerga soldiers gather the
night before an offensive starts
to retake Mosul, near the
Ba'ashiqah front line in Iraq on
Oct. 19.
The Mosul campaign aims to
crush the Iraqi half of the
caliphate declared by ISIS in Iraq
and Syria.
Photographer Harry Chun
traveled across the front line
near Mosul with fighters from
the Kurdistan Freedom Party
(PAK), a Kurdish militant group
affiliated with the Peshmerga,
as they engaged with ISIS.
Harry Chun
HARROWING SCENES FROM THE FRONT LINE AS KURDS
BATTLE ISIS
GALLERY PHOTOS

A soldier named Awara sings with
fellow PAK fighters the night
before the offensive.
Awara was killed the next day
when the unit was ambushed by
ISIS.
He was known to have a fine
voice and often led other PAK
soldiers in song to boost morale.
Harry Chun
GALLERY PHOTOS

Kurdish Peshmerga soldiers on
the night before the offensive.
Harry Chun
GALLERY PHOTOS

.
Kurdish Peshmerga and Iraqi
army soldiers wait to cross the
front line on Oct. 20.
Harry Chun
GALLERY PHOTOS

Female PAK fighters
prepare for the
offensive. The PAK unit,
though relatively small
(about 600 soldiers),
includes many woman
who are active in
combat.
Harry Chun
GALLERY PHOTOS

Members of the PAK unit
advance toward the first
village after crossing the front
line.
The photographer writes,
"the day started out smoothly
[with other Peshmerga units]
easily taking 4-5 villages
without much resistance."
Harry Chun
GALLERY PHOTOS

Helo Remshti, a junior officer
for the PAK unit, returns from a
meeting with Peshmerga
leaders.
Remshti lost his arm a few
months ago while trying to
defuse an IED around Hawija, in
the Kirkuk province, where he
was based before moving the
unit to the Mosul front line.
Harry Chun
GALLERY PHOTOS

Ardalan, a PAK soldier, responds as the convoy comes under fire.
GALLERY PHOTOS

Awara moves into position as the convoy comes
under attack from ISIS fighters.
Harry Chun
GALLERY PHOTOS

A PAK soldier rests between bursts
of fighting against ISIS.
Harry Chun
GALLERY PHOTOS

PAK soldiers rest between bursts of combat.
Harry Chun
GALLERY PHOTOS

Awara lays on the ground after being
shot in the head. He died on the spot.
"It was madness with a mixture of
crying, more bullets and screaming on
the radio asking for enforcement and
help."
Harry Chun
GALLERY PHOTOS

The PAK unit evacuates its fallen
soldier.
Harry Chun
GALLERY PHOTOS

Ardalan, another PAK soldier, is treated
by fellow soldiers after being shot in
the head.
"Ardalan asked me to step aside so he
could position himself to shoot back
from where I stood. Still lots of bullets.
I looked back to see where the tanks
and more armored cars are and the
moment I turned around Ardalan got
hit and fell. The bullet hit through the
top of his head.
Three other soldiers dropped their guns
to come and aid him resulting in less
defense and more intense shooting
from ISIS. We all thought Ardalan was
also dead as he was was bleeding
uncontrollably, but he survived."
Harry Chun
GALLERY PHOTOS

Ardalan is evacuated to a temporary base
a couple of kilometers away.
Harry Chun
GALLERY PHOTOS

The PAK soldiers try to take shelter after
moving their fallen soldiers to an armored car.
Harry Chun
GALLERY PHOTOS

A PAK soldier is overcome with
emotion as they evacuate the two
soldiers.
Harry Chun
GALLERY PHOTOS

The sister of Awara, the slain PAK
soldier, is held by other mourners
during her brother's funeral in the
mountains near Irbil, Iraq, on Oct. 26.
"Many soldiers took a break from the
front line to attend [the funeral] but
there were still 200 others who
remained and continued fighting.
The unit and Awara's fellow soldiers
asked me to honor his death by
sharing the story."
PHOTOS: Iraqi Families Flee Mosul as
Army Battles ISIS
Harry Chun
GALLERY PHOTOS

Photographer
Stringer .
Location
MOSUL, Iraq
2016
Popular Mobilization Forces
launch a rocket during clashes
with Islamic State militants on
the outskirts of the town of
Hammam Al-Alil in south of
Mosul. REUTERS/Stringer
Oct. 30 , 2016

Shiite fighters from the
Hashed al-Shaabi (Popular
Mobilisation) launch missiles
on the village of Salmani,
south of Mosul during the
ongoing battle against ISIS
jihadists to liberate the city of
Mosul.
AHMAD AL-RUBAYE / AFP -
Getty Images
Oct. 30 , 2016

Photographer
Zohra Bensemra
Location
AL-SHURA, Iraq
2016
Iraqi soldiers pose with the
Islamic State flag along a
street of the town of al-Shura,
which was recaptured from
Islamic State (IS) on Saturday,
Oct. 30 , 2016

Photographer
Zohra Bensemra
Location
AL-SHURA, Iraq
Reuters / Sunday,
October 30, 2016
Iraqi soldiers
celebrate beside a
dead Islamic State
fighter's body along
a street of the town
of al-Shura, which
was recaptured from
Islamic State.
REUTERS/Zohra
Bensemra
Oct. 30 , 2016

Photographer
Zohra Bensemra
Location
AL-SHURA, Iraq
Reuters / Sunday, October 30, 2016
A chain is attached to the foot of a
dead Islamic State fighter's body
along a street of the town of al-
Shura, which was recaptured from
Islamic State on Saturday, south of
Mosul, Iraq. REUTERS/Zohra
Bensemra
Oct. 30 , 2016

Photographer
Zohra Bensemra
Location
AL-SHURA, Iraq
Reuters / Sunday, October
30, 2016
An Iraqi soldier stands
next to a detained man
accused of being an
Islamic State fighter at a
check point in Qayyara,
REUTERS/Zohra
Bensemra
Oct. 30 , 2016

Photographer
Stringer .
Location
MOSUL, Iraq
Reuters / Sunday, October 30, 2016
members walk with their weapons
before clashes with Islamic State
fighters on the outskirts of the town
of Hammam Al-Alil in the south of
Oct. 30 , 2016

Photographer
Ahmed Jadallah
Location
QARAQOSH, Iraq
2016
Damaged building and military
vehicle are seen days after
Iraqi forces clashed with
Qaraqosh, near Mosul.
Oct. 30 , 2016

Photographer
Stringer .
Location
MOSUL, Iraq
30, 2016
members walk with their
weapons before clashes with
Islamic State fighters on the
outskirts of the town of
Hammam Al-Alil in south of
Oct. 30, 2016

Photographer
Stringer .
Location
MOSUL, Iraq
30, 2016
prepare to launch a mortar
during clashes with Islamic
State militants on the
outskirts of the town of
Hammam Al-Alil in the south
of Mosul. REUTERS/Stringer
Oct. 30 , 2016

Photographer
Azad Lashkari
Location
ABU JARBOA, Iraq
2016
Kurdish Peshmerga fighters
carry a wheelchair-bound man,
Abbas Ali, 42, after he escaped
with his wife and four children
from the Islamic State-
controlled village of Abu
Jarboa, Iraq. REUTERS/Azad
Lashkari
Oct. 31 , 2016

Photographer
Azad Lashkari
Location
ABU JARBOA, Iraq
Reuters / Monday, October 31, 2016
Iraqi displaced people walk after they
escaped from Islamic State-controlled
village of Abu Jarboa, Iraq. Abbas Ali
flanked by his four children and wife,
they looked behind them to see if
any jihadists were still around to
carry out their threats of shooting
anyone who tried to flee Islamic
State's self-proclaimed caliphate.
Oct. 31 , 2016

Photographer
Azad Lashkari
Location
ABU JARBOA, Iraq
Reuters / Monday, October 31, 2016
Wheelchair-bound man, Abbas Ali, 42,
cries with relief after escaping with his
wife and four children from the Islamic
State-controlled village of Abu Jarboa,
Iraq. As Ali began to weep again, his
wife Bushra, covered from head to toe
in black as required by Islamic State,
poured water on his head, the only
comfort in a dusty desert area not far
from another hamlet where 120
jihadists are in control. REUTERS/Azad
Lashkari
Oct. 31 , 2016

Photographer
Azad Lashkari
Location
ABU JARBOA, Iraq
2016
Kurdish Peshmerga fighters help
Iraqi women and children climb
over a berm as they were
escaping the Islamic State
controlled village of Abu Jarboa
at the frontline, Iraq.
Oct. 31 , 2016
THE END
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