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,...
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...
Thousands of Yezidis trapped in the Sinjar mountains as they tried to escape from Islamic State forces, are rescued by Kurdish Peshmerga forces and...
Civilians flee from their ISIL or Daesh-held frontline village to a Kurdish-controlled area on November 16, 2015 to Sinjar, Iraq. Peshmerga forces...
Many Tal Afar residents, ethnic minority Shiite Turkmen, fled to Sinjar, a town in northwestern Iraq, and took shelter in the school buildings, due...
Iraqi autonomous Kurdish region's peshmerga forces and fighters from the Yazidi minority, a local Kurdish-speaking community which the Islamic State...
Kurdish fighter walks by a wall bearing a drawing of the flag of the Islamic State group in the northern Iraqi town of Sinjar, in the Nineveh...
Heavy smoke billows during an operation by Iraqi Kurdish forces backed by US-led strikes in the northern Iraqi town of Sinjar on November 12 to...
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...
An aerial picture shows mourners carrying coffins during a mass funeral for Yazidi victims of the Islamic State group whose remains were found in a...
Mourners gather around as a coffin is buried a coffin during a a mass funeral for Yazidi victims of the Islamic State group in the northern Iraqi...
An aerial picture shows mourners carrying coffins wrapped in the Iraqi flag in a procession during a mass funeral for Yazidi victims of the Islamic...
Displaced Syrians who fled the fighting in Idlib province's southeastern town of Sinjar drive on a road in a rebel-held area near the city of Saraqib...
Ando Elias Tareq, 36 a Yezidi from Sinjar in Iraq holds his yougest daughter outside the Samos hotspot where they live on September 1, 2016. Tareq...
Yazidis from the Sinjar mountains arrive on November 24, 2015 on the Greek island of Lesbos after they crossed the Aegean Sea from Turkey. More than...
Yazidi man from the Sinjar mountains sits near his wife after their arrival on November 24, 2015 on the Greek island of Lesbos after they crossed the...
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....
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,...
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,...
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....
Iraqi autonomous Kurdish region's peshmerga forces and fighters from the Yazidi minority, a local Kurdish-speaking community which the Islamic State...
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...
Iraqi autonomous Kurdish region's peshmerga forces and fighters from the Yazidi minority, a local Kurdish-speaking community targeted in a brutal...
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...
Displaced Iraqi man from the Yazidi community, who fled violence between Islamic State group jihadists and Peshmerga fighters in the Iraqi town of...
Iraqi Kurdish forces take part in an operation backed by US-led strikes in the northern Iraqi town of Sinjar on November 12 to retake the town from...
Heavy smoke covers the northern Iraqi town of Sinjar during an operation by Iraqi Kurdish forces backed by US-led strikes on November 12 to retake...
Iraqi Kurdish forces take part in an operation backed by US-led strikes on the outskirts of northern Iraqi town of Sinjar on November 12 to retake...
Displaced Iraqis boys from the Yazidi community, who fled violence between Islamic State group jihadists and Peshmerga fighters in the northern Iraqi...
Displaced Iraqi girl from the Yazidi community, who fled violence between Islamic State group jihadists and Peshmerga fighters in the northern Iraqi...
Displaced Iraqi woman from the Yazidi community, who fled violence between Islamic State group jihadists and Peshmerga fighters in the northern Iraqi...
Member of the Yazidi minority searches for clues on February 3 that might lead her to missing relatives in the remains of people killed by the...
An Iraqi man inspects on February 3 the remains of members of the Yazidi minority killed by the Islamic State jihadist group after Kurdish forces...
Displaced Iraqis from the Yazidi community, who fled violence between Islamic State group jihadists and Peshmerga fighters in the northern Iraqi town...
Iraqi Kurdish Peshmerga fighters arrive in Sinjar, west of the northern Iraqi city of Mosul on December 20, 2014 after an operation which broke the...
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...
Thousands of Yezidis trapped in the Sinjar mountains as they tried to escape from Islamic State forces, are rescued by Kurdish Peshmerga forces and...
An Iraqi Yazidi girl, who fled her home when Islamic State militants attacked the town of Sinjar, skips inside a building under construction where...
An Iraqi Yazidi woman, who fled her home when Islamic State militants attacked the town of Sinjar, looks at her baby as they rest inside a building...
An Iraqi Yazidi boy, who fled his home when Islamic State militants attacked the town of Sinjar, looks down the staircase of a building under...
Displaced Iraqi Yazidis, who fled a jihadist onslaught on Sinjar, stand inside a tent after they took refuge at the Bajid Kandala camp in Kurdistan's...
Displaced Iraqi Yazidis, who fled a jihadist onslaught on Sinjar, gather to collect bottles of water at the Bajid Kandala camp in Kurdistan's western...
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 Yezidis trapped in the Sinjar mountains without food and water for days as they tried to escape from Islamic State forces, are rescued...