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Iraqis, Syrians between ISIS and the Scourge of Emigration
At the beginning of June 2015, his one-year tour of duty with ISIS drawing to a close, Wakaz reappraised his life. Since completing his training at the ISIS compound near Mosul the previous summer, he had spent some six months back in his hometown, Dawr — his main...Caption:
Kurdish Peshmerga forces drive a vehicle near the town of Makhmur, south of Erbil, the capital of Iraqi Kurdistan after ISIS insurgents withdrew August 18, 2014. REUTERS/Youssef Boudlal
Kurdistan: The Oasis of Stability in Region of Dangers
Washington-Driving through the desert, Azar Mirkhan told me about the death of his father, Gen. Heso Mirkhan, the peshmerga warrior who helped lead the 1974 Kurdish uprising against the Iraqi government, and who then took his family into exile in Iran. When the...Caption:
Young Syrian refugees play in Zaatari Refugee Camp, Jordan. Reuters
The Tragedy of Refugees
Washington-Since her return from San Francisco in 2009, Khulood had been marooned in Jordan. By 2014, she was living in a small apartment in a working-class neighborhood of eastern Amman with her father and two sisters, Teamim and Sahar. It was a dreary place, a...Caption:
Civilians fleeing Basra, Iraq, March 2003. Paolo Pellegrin/Magnum Photos