During the battle to retake Mosul from ISIS, Fatima Abdullah Younes (4) was disabled after an US airstrike hit a neighbour's house, killing 11 people.

On 6 November 2016, a strike was intended to hit a car carrying members of ISIS, but the explosion was so large that it destroyed two nearby cars as well. In one of them, Younes Mahmood Thanoun, pictu...

Rafi al-Iraqi and his son standing amid the rubble of their home which was destroyed during the battle to retake Mosul in 2017. The property was close to another house which was assessed to be used ex...

Rafi al-Iraqi and his son standing amid the rubble of their home which was destroyed during the battle to retake Mosul in 2017. The property was close to another house which was assessed to be used ex...

Abdul Aziz Ahmed Araj, right, and his brother Saddam amid the ruins of the warehouse where their brother and other family members were killed in the Yabisat neighbourhood of West Mosul. On 5 March, 20...

The Maydan district in the 'Old City' of Mosul, where ISIS made their last stand, which was the most heavily destroyed part of the city and to this day remains in ruins.

Rahaf (10), who is the sole survivor of an airstrike in Al Tanak that killed 11 members of her family. US forces launched the airstrike in 2017 during the battle to retake Mosul from ISIS. They claime...

Katbeeah Ahmed and her granddaughter Rahaf (10), who is the sole survivor of an airstrike in Al Tanak that killed 11 members of her family. US forces launched the airstrike in 2017 during the battle t...

Katbeeah Ahmed, who lost many people in her family to the American forces Al Tanak airstrike in 2017 during the battle to retake Mosul from ISIS.

A girl looks out of the gate of her family home. Next door a new building is under construction. The original house was destroyed, during the battle to retake Mosul from ISIS, by an US airstrike that...

The site of an air strike in Yabisat, West Mosul. On 5 March, 2017, as the battle to retake Mosul from ISIS raged, 21 of their relatives were killed in a series of airstrikes, conducted by US military...

The rubble left after an US airstrike which targeted an apartment complex near the Tahir building where both ISIS members and civilians lived. Down the street was another residential complex where ISI...

Kareema Khalid Suleiman, the only survivor from an US airstrike that occurred during an especially heavy period of shelling in 2017, as the coalition was driving ISIS out of Mosul. Suleiman's large ex...

Ruzqaya, the mother of Ali, who was killed by a US airstrike. Early one morning, Ali, a scrap vendor, set out from his home in West Mosul with his trusty red cart, which he usually filled with cans, b...

Abdul Hakeem Abdullah Hamash al-Aqeedi. Following orders from ISIS to evacuate their West Mosul neighbourhood, two brothers, Majid Mahmood Ahmed and Firas Mahmood Ahmed, were driving with their famili...

On 29 April 2016, an US air strike targeted the notorious Australian ISIS recruiter Neil Prakash, who was believed to be staying at a bed-down location in Mosul. American officials confirmed that the...

A shirt lies amid the rubble of the house where Rafi al-Iraqi and his family were living when it was hit by an US airstrike aimed at a nearby ISIS base.

American ISIS member, Abdelhamid Al-Madioum (centre), sits amongst his fellow inmates in the crowded cell they share at a prison run by Kurdish forces in northeast Syria.

Suspected ISIS members, many of them badly injured from the final months of battle earlier in 2019, languish inside a large crowded cell at a prison controlled by Kurdish forces in northeast Syria.

Suspected ISIS members, many of them badly injured from the final months of battle earlier in 2019, languish inside a large crowded cell at a prison controlled by Kurdish forces in northeast Syria.

A boy, who introduced himself as Steven Ayatullah (14) from Suriname, peersd out from the crowded prison cell where he is being held, along with over 150 other minors, at a prison for former ISIS memb...

Young boys, many under the age of 16, sit in the crowded cell where they are being held at a prison for former ISIS members run by Kurdish forces in northeast Syria.

Suspected ISIS members, many of them badly injured from the final months of battle earlier in 2019, languish inside a large crowded cell at a prison controlled by Kurdish forces in northeast Syria.

A 16-year-old Syrian boy, Osama Al-Mahmoud, peers out from the crowded prison cell where he is being held, along with over 150 other minors, at a prison for former ISIS members run by Kurdish forces i...

Suspected ISIS members, many of them badly injured from the final months of battle earlier in 2019, languish inside a large crowded cell at a prison controlled by Kurdish forces in northeast Syria.

Suspected ISIS members, many of them badly injured from the final months of battle earlier in 2019, languish inside a large crowded cell at a prison controlled by Kurdish forces in northeast Syria.

Suspected ISIS members, many of them badly injured from the final months of battle earlier in 2019, languish inside a large crowded cell at a prison controlled by Kurdish forces in northeast Syria.

Suspected ISIS members, many of them badly injured from the final months of battle earlier in 2019, languish inside a large crowded cell at a prison controlled by Kurdish forces in northeast Syria.

Suspected ISIS members, many of them badly injured from the final months of battle earlier in 2019, languish inside a large crowded cell at a prison controlled by Kurdish forces in northeast Syria.

A shop in the visitation hall at a prison where thousands of suspected ISIS members are being held by Kurdish forces in northeast Syria.

Suspected ISIS members, detained by Kurdish forces, inside a cell at a prison in northeast Syria.

British ISIS member Zakariyya Elogbani (blue top) in a crowded cell inside a prison in northeast Syria where he is being held by Kurdish forces.

British ISIS member Zakariyya Elogbani in a crowded cell inside a prison in northeast Syria where he is being held by Kurdish forces.

Suspected ISIS members, detained by Kurdish forces, during an exercise session in a high walled yard in a prison in northeast Syria.

Suspected ISIS members, detained by Kurdish forces, inside their cell at a prison in northeast Syria.

Suspected ISIS members, detained by Kurdish forces, inside their cell at a prison in northeast Syria.

Suspected ISIS members, detained by Kurdish forces, inside their cell at a prison in northeast Syria.

Goats walk on a felled roadside sign that reads: 'Welcome to the Islamic State of Gao'.

Young boys of various ethnicities stand together in a crowded and dark prison cell in north east Syria where they are being held as suspected ISIS members. Orphaned, or separated from their families,...

Men accused of being ISIS members, who were captured during the final months of fighting in south east Syria in early 2019, crammed inside a large cell at a prison controlled by Kurdish forces in nort...

Men who had fled the last area of ISIS control around the village of Baghuz, wait to be questioned about their links to the terror group by American and Kurdish intelligence officers at a screening po...

Women walking with children in a neighbourhood that was affected by heavy fighting and bombing as the city was retaken from ISIS.

Leafless trees in a neighbourhood that was affected by heavy fighting and bombing as the city was retaken from ISIS.

A woman walks alone in a empty street in a neighbourhood was affected by heavy fighting and bombing as the city was retaken from ISIS.

Fatima (27, L), who suffers from trauma following the constant bombing in her neighbourhood, with her sister Gedija (43) who has a bullet wound to her eye after being shot by an ISIS militant.

A boy stands in the doorway of a destroyed appartment.

A youth rides a bicycle near a 'I love Raqqa' sign.

A man cleans a vehicle at the car wash he has opened in a neighbourhood that was badly damaged by heavy fighting.

Two sisters walking through the war damaged streets.

A boy in a spiderman mask walks through the war damaged streets.

Children enjoy a ride in a playground in the destroyed city center. Before the liberation the playground was used by ISIS to stage mass executions.

A family looking for drinking water as the water supply infrastructure was destroyed by air strikes.

Suria (43) with the daughter (14) of her brother and her grandmother who is sick and cannot walk. Suria's house was bombed during the conflict with ISIS. Her mother died of a heart attack during th...

Boys playing in the destroyed streets beside a store of refrigerators waiting to be repaired.

A boy (13) carries out maintenance work on a generator that has to supply electricity to the neighbourhood.

An elderly man selling low quality fuel on the street in a war damaged neighbourhood.

A hole in a terrace wall caused by a mortar grenade in a neighbourhood badly affected by heavy fighting and air attacks.

A baby is sleeping in a cradle beside its sister's prosthetic leg.

Imad lost both his legs when he entered his apartment following the liberation of Raqqa and triggered a landmine hidden inside by ISIS militants. Imad moved with his family in the house of his parents...

Zharah Kiwi (17) lost her mother and sister in a bombing raid. She survived but was seriously injured and her leg was amputated. To make some money for her family she collects discarded plastic for re...

A young girl whose father lost both legs to a landmine and whose desperate mother asked the photographer to take the child to Europe.

Ancient ruins in the Roman city of Palmyra following the destruction wrought on the site by ISIS during their two occupations. In the background on the hill, are the remains of the ancient citadel bui...

Yazidi Dalal Faroq. She says she doesn't know how old she is but arrived at the camp at the end of 2017, four months earlier. She was a captive of ISIS for three years, whom she considered to be 'very...

Yazidi Beshra Mejo Qasem (21) was held by ISIS since 3 August 2014 until released on 2 January 2018. She said that she was tortured and moved between Iraq and Syria. Seven members of her family are st...

Yazidi Khorkhe Sado Eilo (35) was held by ISIS for one year and 11 months and has been in Shariya camp for around 9 months. All 44 members of her family were captured by ISIS. Her children were taken...

Yazidi Daliya Faroq (10) was held by ISIS for three years along with her sister Dalal. They have been living in Shariya camp for just two or three months. This photograph is from a collaboration betw...

Yazidi Delvin Khairo Naser (34). She and her son were held captive by ISIS for nine months where she says they were badly treated and moved continuously.

Yazidi Nadia Daalo Mosa (16) was held by ISIS for a week during which they cut the leg of her father and they killed a lot of their family. This photograph is from a collaboration between Hossein Fa...

Yazidi Anifa Abbas Ali (64) was a captive of ISIS for 20 days. The terror group murdered her 16 year old son and her 10 year old daughter. Another son remains an ISIS captive.

Yazidi Hana Shaker Faris (15) who has been in Shariya Camp for five months after three years as a captive of ISIS. She says that ISIS killed her father and an elder brother. While a sister, two other...

Yazidi Haniya Hadi Shaker (10) was a captive of ISIS for one year and five months. She has been in the camp for two years. She says ISIS gave her lessons about their version of Islam and forced her to...

Yazidi Vedad Keret Nawaf (27) from Tel Benat near Sinjar and has been in this camp for four years since they fled the invasion of their region by ISIS. Her husband was killed by ISIS.

Yazidi Gawri Kheder Faris (38) who has lived in the camp for about two years. Prior to that she was a captive of ISIS for one year and 5 months. She had her six children with her when she was in the h...

Yazidi Ghazal Elyas Esmaeel, from Warde village. She and four of her children were captives of ISIS for 15 days. At the beginning, she said, ISIS separated her eldest boy from her and she begged them...

Yazidi Ghene (55) says that during her time as an ISIS captive she changed her name to Kete. She was in ISIS' hands for six and a half months. Her brother and nephews are still held by ISIS. One of th...

Iranian refugee, Afsana, holds a picture of her son who was killed by so-called Islamic State (Daesh) in Syria.

A fighter of the Al-Marsa Brigade, fighting IS in Sirte, holds up a helmet mounted on the barrel of his AK-47, to draw fire from nearby snipers on a frontline position near the sea front. Various Li...

A young Yazidi couple, Rahad and Julia, in their home in the Sharia district near Dohuk. They fled Sinjar mountain when ISIS attacked their villages in August 2014. Both their families came to the Sha...

Hamsa Bin Nasser (right) and a comrade, both fighters with the Khaled Ibn-Al Waleed Brigade, make fun of a typical IS gesture. Two days after this picture was taken, during fighting with IS, Hamsa's a...

A fighter from the Al-Marsa Brigade, fighting IS in Sirte, exchanges fire with nearby snipers on a frontline position near the sea front. Various Libyan army units, mainly made up of brigades ('Kati...

A Picture of Osman and his wife Zara on their wedding day. The couple, who are Yazidis, fled the advance of ISIS in August 2014.

Misratan fighters drive an armoured vehicle through Sirte. Various Libyan army units, mainly made up of brigades ('Katibas') from the city of Misrata, have been fighting for some months now on behalf...

Nazlin, 24, from Zoraba village in Sinjar, sitting in a house in the Sharia district near Dohuk where she fled with her family. 'When I was living in Sinjar, I often visited Yazidi temples in the Sinj...

A gunner's seat behind a Landcruiser-mounted ZPU-2, 23 mm anti-aircraft gun, a widely used weapon in consecutive Libyan wars. Various Libyan army units, mainly made up of brigades ('Katibas') from the...

A Yazidi family living in Sharia camp. Haydar, 40, the father said: 'I was working as a cleaner at clinic in Sinjar. I got married to my wife Kamal in November 2013. When ISIS attacked my village Zora...

A fighter from the Al-Marsa Brigade, fighting IS in Sirte, exchanges fire with nearby snipers on a frontline position near the sea front. Various Libyan army units, mainly made up of brigades ('Kati...

Mauia Yazidi Temple in the Sinjar mountains, destroyed by ISIS.

Misratan fighters who have just brought in one of their comrades who was hit in the chest by an IS sniper wait in the Sirte field hospital. The man died of his wounds soon after. Various Libyan army u...

A scouting group prepares for a reconnaissance mission around Sirte's television station in 'District 2' that is fiercely defended by IS militants. Various Libyan army units, mainly made up of brigade...

A forensic team digs up the body of an Islamic State fighter for reburial according to Islamic rites. The dead man and other fighters had been hastily buried there by fellow IS militants while heavy f...