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.

A bakery during work hours in the centre of Tel Abyad, which has come under the control of various rival groups since the start of the conflict in 2011. From the Syrian regime, to Kurdish forces, Russ...

A schoolboy walks through the damaged streets of Tel Abyad which has come under the control of various rival groups since the start of the conflict in 2011. From the Syrian regime, to Kurdish forces,...

Hamoudi smoking a cigarette at a gay club in Berlin. Returning to his native Raqqa in 2011 to join anti-regime protests, Hamoudi and friends came to form a group called 'Our Rights Movement' in 2013,...

Boko Haram graffiti, identical to the flag used by ISIS in the Middle East, adorns a doorway in Bama, which was occupied for two years by Boko Haram. Much of the town was destroyed during the occupati...

Boko Haram graffiti, identical to the flag used by ISIS in the Middle East, adorns a doorway in Bama, which was occupied for two years by Boko Haram. Much of the town was destroyed during the occupati...

A group of distraught female relatives weep and cry out as the funerary procession for 103 Yazidi victims of ISIS passes them by. Having been exhumed from the mass graves where they were dumped, after...

Iraqi soldiers act as pallbearers, carrying coffins during a funeral procession for 103 Yazidis killed by ISIS in the village of Kocho in 2014. Having been exhumed from the mass graves where they were...

Iraqi soldiers act as pallbearers, carrying coffins during a funeral procession for 103 Yazidis killed by ISIS in the village of Kocho in 2014. Having been exhumed from the mass graves where they were...

A soldier tries to calm a group of distraught women as the funerary procession for 103 Yazidi victims of ISIS terror passes them by. Having been exhumed from the mass graves, where they were dumped fo...

A group of distraught female relatives comfort each other as the funerary procession for 103 Yazidis killed by ISIS passes them by. Having been exhumed from the mass graves where they were dumped, aft...

Security personnel and residents look on as the funerary procession for 103 Yazidi victims of ISIS passes them by. Having been exhumed from the mass graves where they were dumped by ISIS, the victim's...

Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Nadia Murad cries as she is embraced by her brother Khalid during the funeral ceremony for 103 Yazidi victims of ISIS, including two of their brothers, who mudered and dumpe...

Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Nadia Murad cries as she is embraced by her brother Khalid during the funeral ceremony for 103 Yazidi victims of ISIS, including two of their brothers, who mudered and dumpe...

Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Nadia Murad addresses the crowd during the ceremonial re-burial of 103 Yazidi victims killed by ISIS in the village of Kocho in 2014. Having been exhumed from the mass grave...

The coffins of the 103 Yazidi victims of ISIS laid out before being buried at a ceremony in the village of Kocho. Having been exhumed from the mass graves where they were dumped by ISIS after their mu...

Yazidi Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Nadia Murad stands outside the remnants of her family home in the village of Kocho. In 2014 she was captured and enslaved by ISIS but eventually escaped and after bei...

Yazidi Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Nadia Murad stands outside the remnants of her family home in the village of Kocho. In 2014 she was captured and enslaved by ISIS but eventually escaped and after bei...

The now abandoned Yazidi village of Kocho lies in ruins more than four years after it was liberated from ISIS rule.

The now abandoned Yazidi village of Kocho lies in ruins more than four years after it was liberated from ISIS rule.

Yazidi family members from the village of Kocho bury the remains of their loved ones in front of the school building where, in 2014, ISIS rounded up the boys, men and elderly women of the village befo...

A woman collapses as her family bury the remains of a young male relative, one of 103 Yazidis murdered by ISIS in 2014. Having been exhumed from the mass graves where they were dumped by ISIS, the vic...

A man is searched by soldiers during a funeral ceremony for 103 victims of ISIS terror where security was extremely tight. In 2014, ISIS rounded up the boys, men and elderly women of Kocho village bef...

Yazidi family members from the village of Kocho bury the remains of their loved ones in front of the school building where, in 2014, ISIS rounded up the boys, men and elderly women of the village befo...

Yazidi women burn incense during a funeral procession for 103 Yazidis killed by ISIS in the village of Kocho in 2014. Having been exhumed from the mass graves where they were dumped by ISIS, the victi...

Pallbearers line up in preparation to carry the remains of 103 Yazidi victims who were killed by ISIS in the village of Kocho in 2014. Having been exhumed from the mass graves where they were dumped b...

A Yazidi family bury the remains of a young male relative, one of 103 people from the village murdered by ISIS in 2014. Having been exhumed from the mass graves where they were dumped by ISIS, the vic...

A photograph of a Yazidi man displayed on one of the coffins being carried by pallbearers during a funeral procession for 103 Yazidis murdered by ISIS in the village of Kocho in 2014. Having been exhu...

Pallbearers carry coffins during a funeral procession for 103 Yazidis killed by ISIS in the village of Kocho in 2014. Having been exhumed from the mass graves where they were dumped by ISIS, their rem...

A Yazidi family bury the remains of a young male relative, one of 103 people from the village murdered by ISIS in 2014. Having been exhumed from the mass graves where they were dumped by ISIS, the vic...

A photograph of a Yazidi man displayed on one of the coffins being carried by pallbearers during a funeral procession for 103 Yazidis murdered by ISIS in the village of Kocho in 2014. Having been exhu...

A Yazidi family bury the remains of a young male relative, one of 103 people from the village murdered by ISIS in 2014. Having been exhumed from the mass graves where they were dumped by ISIS, the vic...

A Yazidi family bury the remains of a relative, one of 103 people from the village murdered by ISIS in 2014. Having been exhumed from the mass graves where they were dumped by ISIS, the victim's remai...

Soldiers look on as pallbearers walk past carrying coffins during a funeral procession for 103 Yazidis killed by ISIS in the village of Kocho in 2014. Having been exhumed from the mass graves where th...

Yazidi women comfort each other as the family bury the remains of a relative, one of 103 people from the village murdered by ISIS in 2014. Having been exhumed from the mass graves where they were dump...

Karam Rafael serves a customer in his newly opened coffee shop. Prior to being overrun by ISIS in August 2014 the town was majority Christian but following its liberation, on 20 October 2016 by Iraq...

Photographs of the 103 Yazidi victims of ISIS, murdered in 2014, are displayed in the school building where ISIS extremists rounded up the boys, men and elderly women of the village before killing the...

A market vendors selling lettuce in the central market. Prior to being overrun by ISIS in August 2014 the town was majority Christian but following its liberation, on 20 October 2016 by Iraqi Specia...

Photographs of the 103 Yazidi victims of ISIS, murdered in 2014, are displayed in the school building where ISIS extremists rounded up the boys, men and elderly women of the village before killing the...

A billboard depicting the late Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis, the former head of the Iraqi Popular Mobilisation Forces, who was killed in the American drone strike targeting Iranian military commander Qasem S...

Photographs of the 103 Yazidi victims of ISIS, murdered in 2014, are displayed in the school building where ISIS extremists rounded up the boys, men and elderly women of the village before killing the...

Photographs of the 103 Yazidi victims of ISIS, murdered in 2014, are displayed in the school building where ISIS extremists rounded up the boys, men and elderly women of the village before killing the...

A billboard depicting the late Iranian cleric Ayatollah Khomeini alongside Iraqi Shiite martyrs at the entrance to Bartella where a large Christain cross stands on a road island. Prior to being over...

Yazidi men line up along the side of the road, awaiting the funerary procession for the 103 Kocho residents murdered by ISIS. Having been exhumed from the mass graves where they were dumped by ISIS in...

The remnants of a gate decorated with a love heart with an arrow through it, lies at the entrance to an abandoned house in the village of Kocho which still lies in ruins more than four years after it...

Two teenage youths walk through the abandoned Yazidi village of Kocho which still lies in ruins more than four years after it was liberated from ISIS rule.

A militiaman stands guard atop a berm surrounding the now abandoned Yazidi village of Kocho, much of which still lies in ruins more than four years after it was liberated from ISIS rule.

A stray dog wanders through the now abandoned Yazidi village of Kocho which still lies in ruins more than four years after it was liberated from ISIS rule.

A stray dog wanders past a faded ISIS flag painted on a wall in the now abandoned Yazidi village of Kocho which still lies in ruins more than four years after it was liberated from ISIS rule.

The rusting remains of a vehicle sits in the now abandoned Yazidi village of Kocho which still lies in ruins more than four years after it was liberated from ISIS rule.

Yazidi women burn incense as they wait for the funeral procession for the 103 Yazidis from the village of Kocho killed by ISIS in 2014 to pass by. Having been exhumed from the mass graves where they w...

Yazidi women burn incense as they walk ahead of the funeral procession for the 103 Yazidis from the village of Kocho killed by ISIS in 2014. Having been exhumed from the mass graves where they were du...

A photograph of a Yazidi man displayed on one of the coffins being carried by pallbearers during a funeral procession for 103 Yazidis murdered by ISIS in the village of Kocho in 2014. Having been exhu...

A relative kisses the photograph of a Yazidi man displayed on one of the coffins carried during a funeral procession for 103 Yazidis murdered by ISIS in the village of Kocho in 2014. Having been exhum...

A photograph of a Yazidi man displayed on one of the coffins being carried by pallbearers during a funeral procession for 103 Yazidis murdered by ISIS in the village of Kocho in 2014. Having been exhu...

The Mayor of Bartella, Ali Iskander a Shiite Muslim Shabak, in his office. Prior to being overrun by ISIS in August 2014 the town was majority Christian but following its liberation, on 20 October 2...

A billboard depicting the late Iranian cleric Ayatollah Khomeini alongside Iraqi Shiite martyrs at the entrance to Bartella where a large Christain cross stands on a road island. Prior to being over...

Sisters Amina (right) and Mohinta Sha'ana watch as a team of Shiite Muslim Shabak workers continue with the rebuilding of their house in a Christian area of Bartella. Prior to being overrun by ISIS...

Sisters Amina (right) and Mohinta Sha'ana watch as a team of Shiite Muslim Shabak workers continue with the rebuilding of their house in a Christian area of Bartella. Prior to being overrun by ISIS...

Father Banham Lalo stands in the side entrance to the new Mar Goris Syriac-Catholic church (St George) which has been rebuilt following its destruction by Islamic State during their occupation of the...

Father Banham Lalo prays in the new Mar Goris Syriac-Catholic church (St George) which has been rebuilt following its destruction by Islamic State during their occupation of the town. Prior to being...

A partially burnt Aramaic Bible, one of the relics on display at the new Mar Goris Syriac-Catholic church (St George). The church was desecrated and badly burnt by ISIS terrorists when they took contr...

A metal crucifix and various candlestick holders, some of the relics on display at the new Mar Goris Syrias-Catholic church (St George) which was burned and badly damaged by ISIS terrorists when they...

The damaged head of a statue of the Vigin Mary, one of the holy relics on display at the new Mar Goris Syrias-Catholic church (St George) which was burned and badly damaged by ISIS terrorists when the...

Smoke stains on the stone walls of the new Mar Goris Syrias-Catholic church (St George) which was burned and badly damaged by ISIS terrorists when they took control of the region in 2014. It has since...

A rebuilt statue of the Virgin Mary in the grounds of the new Mar Goris Syrias-Catholic church (St George) which was burned and badly damaged by ISIS terrorists when they took control of the region in...

Father Yacoub Saadi in the courtyard of the Mart Shmouni (Shmoni) Syriac Orthodox Church which was burned and badly damaged by ISIS terrorists during their occupation of Bartella. Prior to being ove...

Father Banham Lalo in the grounds of the new Mar Goris Syriac-Catholic church (St George) which has been partially rebuilt following its destruction by Islamic State during their occupation of the tow...

Father Banham Lalo describes the rebuilding process of the new Mar Goris Syriac-Catholic church (St George) which has been partially rebuilt following its destruction by Islamic State during their occ...

Father Banham Lalo in the grounds of the new Mar Goris Syriac-Catholic church (St George) which has been partially rebuilt following its destruction by Islamic State during their occupation of the tow...

A Christmas tree at the entrance to Bartella standing amidst posters depicting Shiite martyrs, including Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis, the former head of the Iraqi Popular Mobilisation Forces, who was killed...

A damaged statue in the courtyard of the Mart Shmouni (Shmoni) Syriac Orthodox Church which was burned and badly damaged by ISIS terrorists during their occupation of Bartella. Prior to being overru...

A defaced carving, above the entrance to the Mart Shmouni (Shmoni) Syriac Orthodox Church which was burned and badly damaged by ISIS terrorists during their occupation of Bartella. Prior to being ov...

A policeman on guard in front of the Mart Shmouni (Shmoni) Syriac Orthodox Church which was burned and badly damaged by ISIS terrorists during their occupation of Bartella. Prior to being overrun by...