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  • © Licensed to London News Pictures. 16/04/2018. London, UK. Demonstrators in Parliament Square protest against British airstrikes in Syria. RAF jets joined French and US forces in a 'precision strike' against Syrian military facilities in response to a chemical weapons attack in a Damascus suburb on Saturday 14 April 2018. Photo credit: Rob Pinney/LNP
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  • © Licensed to London News Pictures. 16/04/2018. London, UK. Demonstrators in Parliament Square protest against British airstrikes in Syria. RAF jets joined French and US forces in a 'precision strike' against Syrian military facilities in response to a chemical weapons attack in a Damascus suburb on Saturday 14 April 2018. Photo credit: Rob Pinney/LNP
    LNP_RPI_Syria_Airstrikes_009.jpg
  • © Licensed to London News Pictures. 16/04/2018. London, UK. Demonstrators in Parliament Square protest against British airstrikes in Syria. RAF jets joined French and US forces in a 'precision strike' against Syrian military facilities in response to a chemical weapons attack in a Damascus suburb on Saturday 14 April 2018. Photo credit: Rob Pinney/LNP
    LNP_RPI_Syria_Airstrikes_005.jpg
  • © Licensed to London News Pictures. 16/04/2018. London, UK. Demonstrators in Parliament Square protest against British airstrikes in Syria. RAF jets joined French and US forces in a 'precision strike' against Syrian military facilities in response to a chemical weapons attack in a Damascus suburb on Saturday 14 April 2018. Photo credit: Rob Pinney/LNP
    LNP_RPI_Syria_Airstrikes_007.jpg
  • © Licensed to London News Pictures. 16/04/2018. London, UK. Demonstrators in Parliament Square protest against British airstrikes in Syria. RAF jets joined French and US forces in a 'precision strike' against Syrian military facilities in response to a chemical weapons attack in a Damascus suburb on Saturday 14 April 2018. Photo credit: Rob Pinney/LNP
    LNP_RPI_Syria_Airstrikes_003.jpg
  • © Licensed to London News Pictures. 16/04/2018. London, UK. Demonstrators in Parliament Square protest against British airstrikes in Syria. RAF jets joined French and US forces in a 'precision strike' against Syrian military facilities in response to a chemical weapons attack in a Damascus suburb on Saturday 14 April 2018. Photo credit: Rob Pinney/LNP
    LNP_RPI_Syria_Airstrikes_010.jpg
  • © Licensed to London News Pictures. 16/04/2018. London, UK. Demonstrators in Parliament Square protest against British airstrikes in Syria. RAF jets joined French and US forces in a 'precision strike' against Syrian military facilities in response to a chemical weapons attack in a Damascus suburb on Saturday 14 April 2018. Photo credit: Rob Pinney/LNP
    LNP_RPI_Syria_Airstrikes_008.jpg
  • © Licensed to London News Pictures. 16/04/2018. London, UK. Demonstrators in Parliament Square protest against British airstrikes in Syria. RAF jets joined French and US forces in a 'precision strike' against Syrian military facilities in response to a chemical weapons attack in a Damascus suburb on Saturday 14 April 2018. Photo credit: Rob Pinney/LNP
    LNP_RPI_Syria_Airstrikes_006.jpg
  • © Licensed to London News Pictures. 16/04/2018. London, UK. Demonstrators in Parliament Square protest against British airstrikes in Syria. RAF jets joined French and US forces in a 'precision strike' against Syrian military facilities in response to a chemical weapons attack in a Damascus suburb on Saturday 14 April 2018. Photo credit: Rob Pinney/LNP
    LNP_RPI_Syria_Airstrikes_004.jpg
  • © Licensed to London News Pictures. 16/04/2018. London, UK. Demonstrators in Parliament Square protest against British airstrikes in Syria. RAF jets joined French and US forces in a 'precision strike' against Syrian military facilities in response to a chemical weapons attack in a Damascus suburb on Saturday 14 April 2018. Photo credit: Rob Pinney/LNP
    LNP_RPI_Syria_Airstrikes_002.jpg
  • © Licensed to London News Pictures. 15/04/2018. London, UK. Foreign Secretary BORIS JOHNSON leaves BBC Broadcasting House after appearing on the Andrew Marr Show. Photo credit: Rob Pinney/LNP
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  • © Licensed to London News Pictures. 15/04/2018. London, UK. Foreign Secretary BORIS JOHNSON (R) leaves BBC Broadcasting House after appearing on the Andrew Marr Show. Photo credit: Rob Pinney/LNP
    LNP_Marr_Show_Arrivals_RPI_15.JPG
  • © Licensed to London News Pictures. Labour Party Leader JEREMY CORBYN arrives at BBC Broadcasting House to appear on the Andrew Marr Show. 15/04/2018. London, UK. Photo credit: Rob Pinney/LNP
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  • © Licensed to London News Pictures. Foreign Secretary BORIS JOHNSON (R) arrives at BBC Broadcasting House to appear on the Andrew Marr Show. 15/04/2018. London, UK. Photo credit: Rob Pinney/LNP
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  • © Licensed to London News Pictures. Foreign Secretary BORIS JOHNSON arrives at BBC Broadcasting House to appear on the Andrew Marr Show. 15/04/2018. London, UK. Photo credit: Rob Pinney/LNP
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  • © Licensed to London News Pictures. Foreign Secretary BORIS JOHNSON arrives at BBC Broadcasting House to appear on the Andrew Marr Show. 15/04/2018. London, UK. Photo credit: Rob Pinney/LNP
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  • © Licensed to London News Pictures. Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson arrives at BBC Broadcasting House to appear on the Andrew Marr Show. 15/04/2018. London, UK. Photo credit: Rob Pinney/LNP
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  • © Licensed to London News Pictures. 15/04/2018. London, UK. Foreign Secretary BORIS JOHNSON leaves BBC Broadcasting House after appearing on the Andrew Marr Show. Photo credit: Rob Pinney/LNP
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  • © Licensed to London News Pictures. 15/04/2018. London, UK. Foreign Secretary BORIS JOHNSON leaves BBC Broadcasting House after appearing on the Andrew Marr Show. Photo credit: Rob Pinney/LNP
    LNP_Marr_Show_Arrivals_RPI_18.JPG
  • © Licensed to London News Pictures. 15/04/2018. London, UK. Foreign Secretary BORIS JOHNSON leaves BBC Broadcasting House after appearing on the Andrew Marr Show. Photo credit: Rob Pinney/LNP
    LNP_Marr_Show_Arrivals_RPI_17.JPG
  • © Licensed to London News Pictures. Labour Party Leader JEREMY CORBYN arrives at BBC Broadcasting House to appear on the Andrew Marr Show. 15/04/2018. London, UK. Photo credit: Rob Pinney/LNP
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  • © Licensed to London News Pictures. Labour Party Leader JEREMY CORBYN arrives at BBC Broadcasting House to appear on the Andrew Marr Show. 15/04/2018. London, UK. Photo credit: Rob Pinney/LNP
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  • © Licensed to London News Pictures. Labour Party Leader JEREMY CORBYN arrives at BBC Broadcasting House to appear on the Andrew Marr Show. 15/04/2018. London, UK. Photo credit: Rob Pinney/LNP
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  • © Licensed to London News Pictures. Labour Party Leader JEREMY CORBYN (R) and Labour Party Executive Director of Strategy and Communications SEAMUS MILNE (L) arrive at BBC Broadcasting House to appear on the Andrew Marr Show. 15/04/2018. London, UK. Photo credit: Rob Pinney/LNP
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  • © Licensed to London News Pictures. Labour Party Leader JEREMY CORBYN arrives at BBC Broadcasting House to appear on the Andrew Marr Show. 15/04/2018. London, UK. Photo credit: Rob Pinney/LNP
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  • © Licensed to London News Pictures. Foreign Secretary BORIS JOHNSON arrives at BBC Broadcasting House to appear on the Andrew Marr Show. 15/04/2018. London, UK. Photo credit: Rob Pinney/LNP
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  • © Licensed to London News Pictures. 01/09/2015. Bashiqa, Iraq. A puff of smoke marks the spot where a coalition aircraft dropped a bomb on ISIS vehicles moving through the town of Bashiqa, Iraq. The ISIS heald city of Mosul can be seen illuminated in the background.<br />
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Bashiqa Mountain, towering over the town of the same name, is now a heavily fortified front line. Kurdish peshmerga, having withdrawn to the mountain after the August 2014 ISIS offensive, now watch over Islamic State held territory from their sandbagged high-ground positions. Regular exchanges of fire take place between the Kurds and the Islamic militants with the occupied Iraqi city of Mosul forming the backdrop.<br />
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The town of Bashiqa, a formerly mixed town that had a population of Yazidi, Kurd, Arab and Shabak, now lies empty apart from insurgents. Along with several other urban sprawls the town forms one of the gateways to Iraq's second largest city that will need to be dealt with should the Kurds be called to advance on Mosul. Photo credit: Matt Cetti-Roberts/LNP
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  • © Licensed to London News Pictures. 15/04/2018. London, UK. Foreign Secretary BORIS JOHNSON leaves BBC Broadcasting House after appearing on the Andrew Marr Show. Photo credit: Rob Pinney/LNP
    LNP_Marr_Show_Arrivals_RPI_19.JPG
  • © Licensed to London News Pictures. Labour Party Leader JEREMY CORBYN (R) and Labour Party Executive Director of Strategy and Communications SEAMUS MILNE (L) arrive at BBC Broadcasting House to appear on the Andrew Marr Show. 15/04/2018. London, UK. Photo credit: Rob Pinney/LNP
    LNP_Marr_Show_Arrivals_RPI_11.JPG
  • © Licensed to London News Pictures. Labour Party Leader JEREMY CORBYN arrives at BBC Broadcasting House to appear on the Andrew Marr Show. 15/04/2018. London, UK. Photo credit: Rob Pinney/LNP
    LNP_Marr_Show_Arrivals_RPI_08.JPG
  • © Licensed to London News Pictures. Foreign Secretary BORIS JOHNSON (centre) arrives at BBC Broadcasting House to appear on the Andrew Marr Show. 15/04/2018. London, UK. Photo credit: Rob Pinney/LNP
    LNP_Marr_Show_Arrivals_RPI_05.JPG
  • © Licensed to London News Pictures. 17/07/2014. Gaza.   <br />
Young children walk hand in hand as they look at the remains of the home of the Al Yasje family which was destroyed in an Israeli airstrike in the Jabalaya district of Gaza.     Photo credit: Alison Baskerville/LNP
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  • © Licensed to London News Pictures. 17/07/2014. Gaza.   <br />
The home of the Al Yasje family which was destroyed in an Israeli airstrike in the Jabalaya district of Gaza.  No one was killed in the attack and the family received a warning to evacuate.   Photo credit: Alison Baskerville/LNP
    LNP_2014_Destroyed_Building_2.JPG
  • © Licensed to London News Pictures. 17/07/2014. Gaza.   <br />
The home of the Al Yasje family which was destroyed in an Israeli airstrike in the Jabalaya district of Gaza.  No one was killed in the attack and the family received a warning to evacuate.   Photo credit: Alison Baskerville/LNP
    LNP_2014_Destroyed_Building_1.JPG
  • Licensed to London News Pictures. 08/11/2016. Qayyarah, Iraq. Smoke from burning oil facilties fills sky as men stack concrete blocks and young Iraqi boys play amongst the destroyed football stadium in Qayyarah, Iraq. The stadium was targeted by an Iraqi or coalition airstrike as it was the location for an ISIS headquarters. Oil wells in and around the town of Qayyarah, Iraq, we set alight in July 2016 by Islamic State extremists as the Iraqi military began an offensive to liberated the town.<br />
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For two months the residents of the town have lived under an almost constant smoke cloud, the only respite coming when the wind changes. Those in the town, despite having been freed from ISIS occupation, now live with little power, a water supply tainted with oil that only comes on periodically and an oppressive cloud of smoke that coats everything with thick soot. Many complain of respiratory problems, but the long term health implications for the men, women and children living in the town have yet to be seen. Photo credit: Matt Cetti-Roberts/LNP
    LNP_QAYY3_33_MCR.JPG
  • Licensed to London News Pictures. 08/11/2016. Qayyarah, Iraq. An oil covered young Iraqi boy is seen in a destroyed ISIS headquarters, located in a football stadium destroyed by an airstrike, where he and his friends are playing in the Iraqi town of Qayyarah, Iraq. Oil wells in and around the town of Qayyarah, Iraq, we set alight in July 2016 by Islamic State extremists as the Iraqi military began an offensive to liberated the town.<br />
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For two months the residents of the town have lived under an almost constant smoke cloud, the only respite coming when the wind changes. Those in the town, despite having been freed from ISIS occupation, now live with little power, a water supply tainted with oil that only comes on periodically and an oppressive cloud of smoke that coats everything with thick soot. Many complain of respiratory problems, but the long term health implications for the men, women and children living in the town have yet to be seen. Photo credit: Matt Cetti-Roberts/LNP
    LNP_QAYY3_32_MCR.JPG
  • Licensed to London News Pictures. 08/11/2016. Qayyarah, Iraq. A young Iraqi boy plays with a toy mobile phone as he sits on a destroyed ISIS headquarters, located in a football stadium destroyed by an airstrike, where he and his friends are playing in the Iraqi town of Qayyarah, Iraq. Oil wells in and around the town of Qayyarah, Iraq, we set alight in July 2016 by Islamic State extremists as the Iraqi military began an offensive to liberated the town.<br />
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For two months the residents of the town have lived under an almost constant smoke cloud, the only respite coming when the wind changes. Those in the town, despite having been freed from ISIS occupation, now live with little power, a water supply tainted with oil that only comes on periodically and an oppressive cloud of smoke that coats everything with thick soot. Many complain of respiratory problems, but the long term health implications for the men, women and children living in the town have yet to be seen. Photo credit: Matt Cetti-Roberts/LNP
    LNP_QAYY3_29_MCR.JPG
  • Licensed to London News Pictures. 08/11/2016. Qayyarah, Iraq. Iraqi children use rubbish to sled down a destroyed ISIS headquarters, located in a football stadium, that was hit by a coalition airstrike, in the town of Qayyarah, Iraq. Oil wells in and around the town of Qayyarah, Iraq, we set alight in July 2016 by Islamic State extremists as the Iraqi military began an offensive to liberated the town.<br />
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For two months the residents of the town have lived under an almost constant smoke cloud, the only respite coming when the wind changes. Those in the town, despite having been freed from ISIS occupation, now live with little power, a water supply tainted with oil that only comes on periodically and an oppressive cloud of smoke that coats everything with thick soot. Many complain of respiratory problems, but the long term health implications for the men, women and children living in the town have yet to be seen. Photo credit: Matt Cetti-Roberts/LNP
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  • 20/10/2016. Bashiqa, Iraq. A peshmerga fighter looks towards a large explosion, possibly from a coalition airstrike, during a offensive to retake the Islamic State held city of Bashiqa, Iraq, today {(date}).<br />
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Launched in the early hours of today with support from coalition special forces and air strikes, the attack is part of the larger operation to retake Mosul from the Islamic State, and involves both the Kurds and the Iraqi Army. The city of Bashiqa, around 9 miles north of Mosul, is one of several gateway areas that must be taken before any attempted offensive on Mosul itself.<br />
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Despite the peshmerga suffering several casualties after militants fought back using mortars, heavy machine guns and snipers, the Kurdish forces were quickly taking ground with Haider al-Abadi, the Iraqi prime minister, stating that the operation to retake Mosul was progressing faster than expected. Photo credit: Matt Cetti-Roberts/LNP
    LNP_MOSUL_PESH_32_MCR.JPG
  • © Licensed to London News Pictures. 17/07/2014. Gaza.   <br />
The home of the Al Yasje family which was destroyed in an Israeli airstrike in the Jabalaya district of Gaza.  No one was killed in the attack and the family received a warning to evacuate.   Photo credit: Alison Baskerville/LNP
    LNP_2014_GAZA_16.JPG
  • © Licensed to London News Pictures. 17/07/2014. Gaza.   <br />
The home of the Al Yasje family which was destroyed in an Israeli airstrike in the Jabalaya district of Gaza.  No one was killed in the attack and the family received a warning to evacuate.   Photo credit: Alison Baskerville/LNP
    LNP_2014_GAZA_14.JPG
  • © Licensed to London News Pictures. 17/07/2014. Gaza.   <br />
The home of the Al Yasje family which was destroyed in an Israeli airstrike in the Jabalaya district of Gaza.  No one was killed in the attack and the family received a warning to evacuate.   Photo credit: Alison Baskerville/LNP
    LNP_2014_Destroyed_Building_3.JPG
  • © Licensed to London News Pictures. 17/07/2014. Gaza.   <br />
Montesr Bakir (12), one of the cousins of the 4 boys killed in an Israeli airstrike in Gaza on the 16 Jul 14 recovers in hospital.  The boys were playing on the beach in a fishing port when they were hit by a missile fired from an Israeli ship.    Photo credit: Alison Baskerville/LNP
    LNP_2014_Bakir_Family_1.JPG
  • Licensed to London News Pictures. 08/11/2016. Qayyarah, Iraq. An oil covered young Iraqi boy is seen in a destroyed ISIS headquarters, located in a football stadium destroyed by an airstrike, where he and his friends are playing in the Iraqi town of Qayyarah, Iraq. Oil wells in and around the town of Qayyarah, Iraq, we set alight in July 2016 by Islamic State extremists as the Iraqi military began an offensive to liberated the town.<br />
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For two months the residents of the town have lived under an almost constant smoke cloud, the only respite coming when the wind changes. Those in the town, despite having been freed from ISIS occupation, now live with little power, a water supply tainted with oil that only comes on periodically and an oppressive cloud of smoke that coats everything with thick soot. Many complain of respiratory problems, but the long term health implications for the men, women and children living in the town have yet to be seen. Photo credit: Matt Cetti-Roberts/LNP
    LNP_QAYY3_31_MCR.JPG
  • Licensed to London News Pictures. 08/11/2016. Qayyarah, Iraq. Iraqi children use rubbish to sled down a destroyed ISIS headquarters, located in a football stadium, that was hit by a coalition airstrike, in the town of Qayyarah, Iraq. Oil wells in and around the town of Qayyarah, Iraq, we set alight in July 2016 by Islamic State extremists as the Iraqi military began an offensive to liberated the town.<br />
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For two months the residents of the town have lived under an almost constant smoke cloud, the only respite coming when the wind changes. Those in the town, despite having been freed from ISIS occupation, now live with little power, a water supply tainted with oil that only comes on periodically and an oppressive cloud of smoke that coats everything with thick soot. Many complain of respiratory problems, but the long term health implications for the men, women and children living in the town have yet to be seen. Photo credit: Matt Cetti-Roberts/LNP
    LNP_QAYY3_28_MCR.JPG
  • 20/10/2016. Bashiqa, Iraq. Smoke from a coalition airstrike rises over the town of Tiskharab near Mosul, Iraq, during an operation to retake the Islamic State held town of Bashiqa today (20/10/2016).<br />
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Launched in the early hours of today with support from coalition special forces and air strikes, the attack is part of the larger operation to retake Mosul from the Islamic State, and involves both the Kurds and the Iraqi Army. The city of Bashiqa, around 9 miles north of Mosul, is one of several gateway areas that must be taken before any attempted offensive on Mosul itself.<br />
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Despite the peshmerga suffering several casualties after militants fought back using mortars, heavy machine guns and snipers, the Kurdish forces were quickly taking ground with Haider al-Abadi, the Iraqi prime minister, stating that the operation to retake Mosul was progressing faster than expected. Photo credit: Matt Cetti-Roberts/LNP
    LNP_MOSUL_PESH_37_MCR.JPG
  • © Licensed to London News Pictures. 17/07/2014. Gaza.   <br />
The home of the Al Yasje family which was destroyed in an Israeli airstrike in the Jabalaya district of Gaza.  No one was killed in the attack and the family received a warning to evacuate.   Photo credit: Alison Baskerville/LNP
    LNP_2014_GAZA_15.JPG
  • © Licensed to London News Pictures. 17/07/2014. Gaza.   <br />
The home of the Al Yasje family which was destroyed in an Israeli airstrike in the Jabalaya district of Gaza.  No one was killed in the attack and the family received a warning to evacuate.   Photo credit: Alison Baskerville/LNP
    LNP_2014_Destroyed_Building_5.JPG
  • © Licensed to London News Pictures. 17/07/2014. Gaza.   <br />
The home of the Al Yasje family which was destroyed in an Israeli airstrike in the Jabalaya district of Gaza.  No one was killed in the attack and the family received a warning to evacuate.   Photo credit: Alison Baskerville/LNP
    LNP_2014_Destroyed_Building_4.JPG
  • Licensed to London News Pictures. 08/11/2016. Qayyarah, Iraq. Iraqi children use rubbish to sled down a destroyed ISIS headquarters, located in a football stadium, that was hit by a coalition airstrike, in the town of Qayyarah, Iraq. Oil wells in and around the town of Qayyarah, Iraq, we set alight in July 2016 by Islamic State extremists as the Iraqi military began an offensive to liberated the town.<br />
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For two months the residents of the town have lived under an almost constant smoke cloud, the only respite coming when the wind changes. Those in the town, despite having been freed from ISIS occupation, now live with little power, a water supply tainted with oil that only comes on periodically and an oppressive cloud of smoke that coats everything with thick soot. Many complain of respiratory problems, but the long term health implications for the men, women and children living in the town have yet to be seen. Photo credit: Matt Cetti-Roberts/LNP
    LNP_QAYY3_30_MCR.JPG
  • Licensed to London News Pictures. 08/11/2016. Qayyarah, Iraq. Iraqi children use rubbish to sled down a destroyed ISIS headquarters, located in a football stadium, that was hit by a coalition airstrike, in the town of Qayyarah, Iraq. Oil wells in and around the town of Qayyarah, Iraq, we set alight in July 2016 by Islamic State extremists as the Iraqi military began an offensive to liberated the town.<br />
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For two months the residents of the town have lived under an almost constant smoke cloud, the only respite coming when the wind changes. Those in the town, despite having been freed from ISIS occupation, now live with little power, a water supply tainted with oil that only comes on periodically and an oppressive cloud of smoke that coats everything with thick soot. Many complain of respiratory problems, but the long term health implications for the men, women and children living in the town have yet to be seen. Photo credit: Matt Cetti-Roberts/LNP
    LNP_QAYY3_02_MCR.JPG
  • © Licensed to London News Pictures. 17/07/2014. Gaza.   <br />
The home of the Al Yasje family which was destroyed in an Israeli airstrike in the Jabalaya district of Gaza.  No one was killed in the attack and the family received a warning to evacuate.   Photo credit: Alison Baskerville/LNP
    LNP_2014_GAZA_1.JPG
  • © Licensed to London News Pictures. 17/07/2014. Gaza.   <br />
Montesr Bakir (12), one of the cousins of the 4 boys killed in an Israeli airstrike in Gaza on the 16 Jul 14 recovers in hospital.  The boys were playing on the beach in a fishing port when they were hit by a missile fired from an Israeli ship.    Photo credit: Alison Baskerville/LNP
    LNP_2014_Bakir_Family_2.JPG
  • Licensed to London News Pictures. 08/11/2016. Qayyarah, Iraq. Iraqi children use rubbish to sled down a destroyed ISIS headquarters, located in a football stadium, that was hit by a coalition airstrike, in the town of Qayyarah, Iraq. Oil wells in and around the town of Qayyarah, Iraq, we set alight in July 2016 by Islamic State extremists as the Iraqi military began an offensive to liberated the town.<br />
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For two months the residents of the town have lived under an almost constant smoke cloud, the only respite coming when the wind changes. Those in the town, despite having been freed from ISIS occupation, now live with little power, a water supply tainted with oil that only comes on periodically and an oppressive cloud of smoke that coats everything with thick soot. Many complain of respiratory problems, but the long term health implications for the men, women and children living in the town have yet to be seen. Photo credit: Matt Cetti-Roberts/LNP
    LNP_QAYY3_25_MCR.JPG
  • © Licensed to London News Pictures. 17/07/2014. Gaza.   <br />
*WARNING - IMAGE CONTAINS CONTENT OF A GRAPHIC NATURE*<br />
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An injured Palestinian man is brought into a private hospital in Gaza after being injured in an Israeli airstrike during the conflict in July 2014.   Authorities said over 2,200 people were killed - most of them Palestinians - and many more injured, during 50 days of violence. A ceasefire was agreed between Israel and Hamas on 26 August.  Photo credit : Alison Baskerville/LNP
    LNP_2014_GAZA_18.JPG
  • © Licensed to London News Pictures. 16/04/2018. London, UK. Prime Minister Theresa May leaves 10 Downing Street as she heads to Parliament to address MPs about recent British airstrikes in Syria. Photo credit: Rob Pinney/LNP
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  • © Licensed to London News Pictures. 16/04/2018. London, UK. Prime Minister Theresa May leaves 10 Downing Street as she heads to Parliament to address MPs about recent British airstrikes in Syria. Photo credit: Rob Pinney/LNP
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  • © Licensed to London News Pictures. 16/04/2018. London, UK. British Prime Minister Theresa May leaves 10 Downing Street to make a statement to MPs on Britain's decision to launch airstrikes on a Syrian chemical weapons facility over the weekend. MPs today return from Easter recess. Photo credit : Tom Nicholson/LNP
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  • © Licensed to London News Pictures. 16/04/2018. London, UK. British Prime Minister Theresa May leaves 10 Downing Street to make a statement to MPs on Britain's decision to launch airstrikes on a Syrian chemical weapons facility over the weekend. MPs today return from Easter recess. Photo credit : Tom Nicholson/LNP
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  • © Licensed to London News Pictures. 16/04/2018. London, UK. British Prime Minister Theresa May leaves 10 Downing Street to make a statement to MPs on Britain's decision to launch airstrikes on a Syrian chemical weapons facility over the weekend. MPs today return from Easter recess. Photo credit : Tom Nicholson/LNP
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  • © Licensed to London News Pictures. 16/04/2018. London, UK. Prime Minister Theresa May leaves 10 Downing Street as she heads to Parliament to address MPs about recent British airstrikes in Syria. Photo credit: Rob Pinney/LNP
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  • © Licensed to London News Pictures. 16/04/2018. London, UK. Prime Minister Theresa May leaves 10 Downing Street as she heads to Parliament to address MPs about recent British airstrikes in Syria. Photo credit: Rob Pinney/LNP
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  • © Licensed to London News Pictures. 04/11/2016. Hamdaniyah, Iraq. A board bearing the flag of the Islamic State lies on the ground in the recently liberated Christian town of Hamdaniyah, Iraq.<br />
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Although located close to a front line, littered with improvised explosive devices and pieces of unexploded ordnance the Christian town of Hamdaniyah has only recently been cleared of ISIS extremists who stayed behind to fight. After the town’s liberation as part of the Mosul Offensive residents and priests of the town are now free to take short trips to assess damage, salvage possessions and clear up the mess left by militants during their two year occupation.<br />
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Hamdaniyahh, and much of the Nineveh plains, were captured by the Islamic State during a large offensive on the 7th of August 2014 that saw the extremists advance to within 20km of the Iraqi Kurdish capital Erbil. Residents of the town, who included many Christian refugees who escaped there after the fall of Mosul, were then forced to seek sanctuary in the Kurdish areas. In the year and two months of the ISIS occupation churches were burnt, homes were put into use as militant accommodation and bomb factories and some buildings destroyed by coalition airstrikes. Photo credit: Matt Cetti-Roberts/LNP
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  • © Licensed to London News Pictures. 04/11/2016. Hamdaniyah, Iraq. Father Ignatius Offy, a Christian priest, examines a damaged religious book in the burnt out shell of the Syriac Catholic Church of Mar Behnam and his sister Mart Sarah in the recently liberated Christian town of Hamdaniyah, Iraq. The church was vandalised and burnt by Islamic State militants during their two year occupation of the town which was retaken by Iraqi Security Forces during the ongoing Mosul Offensive.<br />
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Although located close to a front line, littered with improvised explosive devices and pieces of unexploded ordnance the Christian town of Hamdaniyah has only recently been cleared of ISIS extremists who stayed behind to fight. After the town’s liberation as part of the Mosul Offensive residents and priests of the town are now free to take short trips to assess damage, salvage possessions and clear up the mess left by militants during their two year occupation.<br />
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Hamdaniyah, and much of the Nineveh plains, were captured by the Islamic State during a large offensive on the 7th of August 2014 that saw the extremists advance to within 20km of the Iraqi Kurdish capital Erbil. Residents of the town, who included many Christian refugees who escaped there after the fall of Mosul, were then forced to seek sanctuary in the Kurdish areas. In the year and two months of the ISIS occupation churches were burnt, homes were put into use as militant accommodation and bomb factories and some buildings destroyed by coalition airstrikes. Photo credit: Matt Cetti-Roberts/LNP
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  • © Licensed to London News Pictures. 04/11/2016. Hamdaniyah, Iraq. Christian militiaman Salam Idris, hangs a picture of his late father, on the wall of his family home in the recently liberated town of Hamdaniyah, Iraq. The picture was taken down and damaged by Islamic State militants when they occupied the house and employed it as a factory for improvised mines.<br />
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Although located close to a front line, littered with improvised explosive devices and pieces of unexploded ordnance the Christian town of Hamdaniyah has only recently been cleared of ISIS extremists who stayed behind to fight. After the town’s liberation as part of the Mosul Offensive residents and priests of the town are now free to take short trips to assess damage, salvage possessions and clear up the mess left by militants during their two year occupation.<br />
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Hamdaniyah, and much of the Nineveh plains, were captured by the Islamic State during a large offensive on the 7th of August 2014 that saw the extremists advance to within 20km of the Iraqi Kurdish capital Erbil. Residents of the town, who included many Christian refugees who escaped there after the fall of Mosul, were then forced to seek sanctuary in the Kurdish areas. In the year and two months of the ISIS occupation churches were burnt, homes were put into use as militant accommodation and bomb factories and some buildings destroyed by coalition airstrikes. Photo credit: Matt Cetti-Roberts/LNP
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  • © Licensed to London News Pictures. 04/11/2016. Hamdaniyah, Iraq. A Christian militiaman, holds up a picture of Jesus Christ, slashed by Islamic State militants who previously occupied the house, in the recently liberated town of Hamdaniyah, Iraq. The house was also used as a factory for constructing improvised mines, components can be seen stacked on the right side of the image.<br />
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Although located close to a front line, littered with improvised explosive devices and pieces of unexploded ordnance the Christian town of Hamdaniyah has only recently been cleared of ISIS extremists who stayed behind to fight. After the town’s liberation as part of the Mosul Offensive residents and priests of the town are now free to take short trips to assess damage, salvage possessions and clear up the mess left by militants during their two year occupation.<br />
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Hamdaniyah, and much of the Nineveh plains, were captured by the Islamic State during a large offensive on the 7th of August 2014 that saw the extremists advance to within 20km of the Iraqi Kurdish capital Erbil. Residents of the town, who included many Christian refugees who escaped there after the fall of Mosul, were then forced to seek sanctuary in the Kurdish areas. In the year and two months of the ISIS occupation churches were burnt, homes were put into use as militant accommodation and bomb factories and some buildings destroyed by coalition airstrikes. Photo credit: Matt Cetti-Roberts/LNP
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  • © Licensed to London News Pictures. 04/11/2016. Hamdaniyah, Iraq. A blood stained table, and blood splashed walls are seen in a room thought to have been used by ISIS militants in the recently liberated Iraqi town of Hamdaniyah.<br />
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Although located close to a front line, littered with improvised explosive devices and pieces of unexploded ordnance the Christian town of Hamdaniyah has only recently been cleared of ISIS extremists who stayed behind to fight. After the town’s liberation as part of the Mosul Offensive residents and priests of the town are now free to take short trips to assess damage, salvage possessions and clear up the mess left by militants during their two year occupation.<br />
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Hamdaniyah, and much of the Nineveh plains, were captured by the Islamic State during a large offensive on the 7th of August 2014 that saw the extremists advance to within 20km of the Iraqi Kurdish capital Erbil. Residents of the town, who included many Christian refugees who escaped there after the fall of Mosul, were then forced to seek sanctuary in the Kurdish areas. In the year and two months of the ISIS occupation churches were burnt, homes were put into use as militant accommodation and bomb factories and some buildings destroyed by coalition airstrikes. Photo credit: Matt Cetti-Roberts/LNP
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  • 20/10/2016. Bashiqa, Iraq. With the smoke from coalition airstrikes in the background, peshmerga fighters are seen near the Iraqi town of Tiskharab near Mosul city, during an offensive to retake the Bashiqa area today (20/10/2016).<br />
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Launched in the early hours of today with support from coalition special forces and air strikes, the attack is part of the larger operation to retake Mosul from the Islamic State, and involves both the Kurds and the Iraqi Army. The city of Bashiqa, around 9 miles north of Mosul, is one of several gateway areas that must be taken before any attempted offensive on Mosul itself.<br />
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Despite the peshmerga suffering several casualties after militants fought back using mortars, heavy machine guns and snipers, the Kurdish forces were quickly taking ground with Haider al-Abadi, the Iraqi prime minister, stating that the operation to retake Mosul was progressing faster than expected. Photo credit: Matt Cetti-Roberts/LNP
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  • © Licensed to London News Pictures. 04/12/2015. London, UK. Labour MP Neil Coyle, who voted for Syria airstrikes talking to police officers protecting his office during his surgery in Bermondsey after receiving death threats on Twitter on Friday, 4 December 2015. Photo credit: Tolga Akmen/LNP
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  • © Licensed to London News Pictures. 04/12/2015. London, UK. Labour MP Neil Coyle, who voted for Syria airstrikes leaving his police protected office after receiving death threats on Twitter on Friday, 4 December 2015. Photo credit: Tolga Akmen/LNP
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  • © Licensed to London News Pictures. 04/12/2015. London, UK. Labour MP Neil Coyle, who voted for Syria airstrikes leaving his police protected office after receiving death threats on Twitter on Friday, 4 December 2015. Photo credit: Tolga Akmen/LNP
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  • © Licensed to London News Pictures. 04/12/2015. London, UK. Labour MP Neil Coyle, who voted for Syria airstrikes talking to police officers protecting his office during his surgery in Bermondsey after receiving death threats on Twitter on Friday, 4 December 2015. Photo credit: Tolga Akmen/LNP
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  • © Licensed to London News Pictures. 04/12/2015. London, UK. Labour MP Neil Coyle, who voted for Syria airstrikes talking to police officers protecting his office during his surgery in Bermondsey after receiving death threats on Twitter on Friday, 4 December 2015. Photo credit: Tolga Akmen/LNP
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  • © Licensed to London News Pictures. 04/12/2015. London, UK. Labour MP Neil Coyle, who voted for Syria airstrikes leaving his police protected office after receiving death threats on Twitter on Friday, 4 December 2015. Photo credit: Tolga Akmen/LNP
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  • © Licensed to London News Pictures. 04/12/2015. London, UK. Labour MP Neil Coyle, who voted for Syria airstrikes leaving his police protected office after receiving death threats on Twitter on Friday, 4 December 2015. Photo credit: Tolga Akmen/LNP
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  • © Licensed to London News Pictures. 04/12/2015. London, UK. Labour MP Neil Coyle, who voted for Syria airstrikes leaving his police protected office after receiving death threats on Twitter on Friday, 4 December 2015. Photo credit: Tolga Akmen/LNP
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  • © Licensed to London News Pictures. 30/09/2015. Kirkuk, Iraq. Kurdish peshmerga EOD technicians are seen with their armoured vehicle after detonating one of many IEDs around the village of Mansoria near Kirkuk, Iraq.<br />
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Supported by large amounts of coalition airstrikes, members of the Iraqi-Kurdish peshmerga today (30/09/2015) took part in an offensive to take seven villages across a large front near Kirkuk, Iraq. By mid afternoon the Kurds had reached most of their objectives, but suffered around 10 casualties all to improvised explosive devices. All seven villages were originally Kurdish and settled with other ethnic groups during the Iraqi Arabisation process of the 1970's and 80's. Photo credit: Matt Cetti-Roberts/LNP
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  • © Licensed to London News Pictures. 30/09/2015. Kirkuk, Iraq. Kurdish peshmerga evacuate a wounded colleague, who later died of his wounds, after he and three other fighters triggered an IED in the village of Mansoria near Kirkuk, Iraq.<br />
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Supported by large amounts of coalition airstrikes, members of the Iraqi-Kurdish peshmerga today (30/09/2015) took part in an offensive to take seven villages across a large front near Kirkuk, Iraq. By mid afternoon the Kurds had reached most of their objectives, but suffered around 10 casualties all to improvised explosive devices. All seven villages were originally Kurdish and settled with other ethnic groups during the Iraqi Arabisation process of the 1970's and 80's. Photo credit: Matt Cetti-Roberts/LNP
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  • © Licensed to London News Pictures. 30/09/2015. Kirkuk, Iraq. Kurdish peshmerga are seen with an EOD armoured vehicle after the destruction of one of many IEDs around the village of Mansoria near Kirkuk, Iraq.<br />
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Supported by large amounts of coalition airstrikes, members of the Iraqi-Kurdish peshmerga today (30/09/2015) took part in an offensive to take seven villages across a large front near Kirkuk, Iraq. By mid afternoon the Kurds had reached most of their objectives, but suffered around 10 casualties all to improvised explosive devices. All seven villages were originally Kurdish and settled with other ethnic groups during the Iraqi Arabisation process of the 1970's and 80's. Photo credit: Matt Cetti-Roberts/LNP
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  • © Licensed to London News Pictures. 30/09/2015. Kirkuk, Iraq. Two Kurdish peshmerga fighters wait on the back of an armoured Humvee for the start of an offensive to re-take 11 villages from ISIS in the Kirkuk, Iraq, area.<br />
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Supported by large amounts of coalition airstrikes, members of the Iraqi-Kurdish peshmerga today (30/09/2015) took part in an offensive to take seven villages across a large front near Kirkuk, Iraq. By mid afternoon the Kurds had reached most of their objectives, but suffered around 10 casualties all to improvised explosive devices. All seven villages were originally Kurdish and settled with other ethnic groups during the Iraqi Arabisation process of the 1970's and 80's. Photo credit: Matt Cetti-Roberts/LNP
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  • © Licensed to London News Pictures. 30/09/2015. Kirkuk, Iraq. A Kurdish peshmerga captain watches the start of a firefight from the turret of his armoured Humvee vehicle during an offensive to re-take 11 villages in the Kirkuk area from the Islamic State.<br />
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Supported by large amounts of coalition airstrikes, members of the Iraqi-Kurdish peshmerga today (30/09/2015) took part in an offensive to take seven villages across a large front near Kirkuk, Iraq. By mid afternoon the Kurds had reached most of their objectives, but suffered around 10 casualties all to improvised explosive devices. All seven villages were originally Kurdish and settled with other ethnic groups during the Iraqi Arabisation process of the 1970's and 80's. Photo credit: Matt Cetti-Roberts/LNP
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  • © Licensed to London News Pictures. 30/09/2015. Kirkuk, Iraq. A Kurdish peshmerga fighter views the smoke from an IED explosion which claimed the lives of five peshmerga on the outskirts of Mansoria village during an offensive aimed at capturing 11 villages from the Islamic State near Kirkuk, Iraq.<br />
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Supported by large amounts of coalition airstrikes, members of the Iraqi-Kurdish peshmerga today (30/09/2015) took part in an offensive to take seven villages across a large front near Kirkuk, Iraq. By mid afternoon the Kurds had reached most of their objectives, but suffered around 10 casualties all to improvised explosive devices. All seven villages were originally Kurdish and settled with other ethnic groups during the Iraqi Arabisation process of the 1970's and 80's. Photo credit: Matt Cetti-Roberts/LNP
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  • © Licensed to London News Pictures. 30/09/2015. Kirkuk, Iraq. Kurdish peshmergas fighter watch the smoke from an IED explosion which claimed the lives of five peshmerga on the outskirts of Mansoria village during an offensive aimed at capturing 11 villages from the Islamic State near Kirkuk, Iraq.<br />
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Supported by large amounts of coalition airstrikes, members of the Iraqi-Kurdish peshmerga today (30/09/2015) took part in an offensive to take seven villages across a large front near Kirkuk, Iraq. By mid afternoon the Kurds had reached most of their objectives, but suffered around 10 casualties all to improvised explosive devices. All seven villages were originally Kurdish and settled with other ethnic groups during the Iraqi Arabisation process of the 1970's and 80's. Photo credit: Matt Cetti-Roberts/LNP
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  • © Licensed to London News Pictures. 30/09/2015. Kirkuk, Iraq. Kurdish peshmerga fighters look in to no man's land and ISIS controlled territory as they prepare to take part in an offensive to capture 11 villages from the Islamic State near Kirkuk, Iraq.<br />
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Supported by large amounts of coalition airstrikes, members of the Iraqi-Kurdish peshmerga today (30/09/2015) took part in an offensive to take seven villages across a large front near Kirkuk, Iraq. By mid afternoon the Kurds had reached most of their objectives, but suffered around 10 casualties all to improvised explosive devices. All seven villages were originally Kurdish and settled with other ethnic groups during the Iraqi Arabisation process of the 1970's and 80's. Photo credit: Matt Cetti-Roberts/LNP
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  • © Licensed to London News Pictures. 02/09/2015. Bashiqa, Iraq. Illuminated sections of the ISIS held Iraqi town of Bashiqa, and the distant lights of Mosul, are seen from peshmerga positions on Bashiqa Mountain, Iraq. The Islamic State leaves certain parts of Bashiqa town illuminated in an attempt to coax coalition airstrikes in to areas of the town away from their positions.<br />
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Bashiqa Mountain, towering over the town of the same name, is now a heavily fortified front line. Kurdish peshmerga, having withdrawn to the mountain after the August 2014 ISIS offensive, now watch over Islamic State held territory from their sandbagged high-ground positions. Regular exchanges of fire take place between the Kurds and the Islamic militants with the occupied Iraqi city of Mosul forming the backdrop.<br />
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The town of Bashiqa, a formerly mixed town that had a population of Yazidi, Kurd, Arab and Shabak, now lies empty apart from insurgents. Along with several other urban sprawls the town forms one of the gateways to Iraq's second largest city that will need to be dealt with should the Kurds be called to advance on Mosul. Photo credit: Matt Cetti-Roberts/LNP
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  • © Licensed to London News Pictures. 16/04/2018. London, UK. Prime Minister Theresa May leaves 10 Downing Street as she heads to Parliament to address MPs about recent British airstrikes in Syria. Photo credit: Rob Pinney/LNP
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  • © Licensed to London News Pictures. 16/04/2018. London, UK. Prime Minister Theresa May leaves 10 Downing Street as she heads to Parliament to address MPs about recent British airstrikes in Syria. Photo credit: Rob Pinney/LNP
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  • © Licensed to London News Pictures. 16/04/2018. London, UK. Prime Minister Theresa May leaves 10 Downing Street as she heads to Parliament to address MPs about recent British airstrikes in Syria. Photo credit: Rob Pinney/LNP
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  • © Licensed to London News Pictures. 16/04/2018. London, UK. Prime Minister Theresa May leaves 10 Downing Street as she heads to Parliament to address MPs about recent British airstrikes in Syria. Photo credit: Rob Pinney/LNP
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  • © Licensed to London News Pictures. 16/04/2018. London, UK. Prime Minister Theresa May leaves 10 Downing Street as she heads to Parliament to address MPs about recent British airstrikes in Syria. Photo credit: Rob Pinney/LNP
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  • © Licensed to London News Pictures. 16/04/2018. London, UK. Prime Minister Theresa May leaves 10 Downing Street as she heads to Parliament to address MPs about recent British airstrikes in Syria. Photo credit: Rob Pinney/LNP
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  • © Licensed to London News Pictures. 16/04/2018. London, UK. British Prime Minister Theresa May leaves 10 Downing Street to make a statement to MPs on Britain's decision to launch airstrikes on a Syrian chemical weapons facility over the weekend. MPs today return from Easter recess. Photo credit : Tom Nicholson/LNP
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  • © Licensed to London News Pictures. 16/04/2018. London, UK. British Prime Minister Theresa May leaves 10 Downing Street to make a statement to MPs on Britain's decision to launch airstrikes on a Syrian chemical weapons facility over the weekend. MPs today return from Easter recess. Photo credit : Tom Nicholson/LNP
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  • © Licensed to London News Pictures. 16/04/2018. London, UK. British Prime Minister Theresa May leaves 10 Downing Street to make a statement to MPs on Britain's decision to launch airstrikes on a Syrian chemical weapons facility over the weekend. MPs today return from Easter recess. Photo credit : Tom Nicholson/LNP
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  • © Licensed to London News Pictures. 16/04/2018. London, UK. British Prime Minister Theresa May leaves 10 Downing Street to make a statement to MPs on Britain's decision to launch airstrikes on a Syrian chemical weapons facility over the weekend. MPs today return from Easter recess. Photo credit : Tom Nicholson/LNP
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  • © Licensed to London News Pictures. 16/04/2018. London, UK. Downing Street Chief of Staff Gavin Barwell leaves 11 Downing Street. British Prime Minister Theresa May is about to make a statement to MPs on Britain's decision to launch airstrikes on a Syrian chemical weapons facility over the weekend. MPs today return from Easter recess. Photo credit : Tom Nicholson/LNP
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  • © Licensed to London News Pictures. 16/04/2018. London, UK. Prime Minister Theresa May leaves 10 Downing Street as she heads to Parliament to address MPs about recent British airstrikes in Syria. Photo credit: Rob Pinney/LNP
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  • © Licensed to London News Pictures. 04/11/2016. Hamdaniyah, Iraq. Militiamen of the Nineveh Plain Protection Units (NPU), an Assyrian Christian militia that is working with the Iraqi Army to retake Christian areas, guard a checkpoint in the recently liberated Christian town of Hamdaniyah, Iraq.<br />
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Although located close to a front line, littered with improvised explosive devices and pieces of unexploded ordnance the Christian town of Hamdaniyah has only recently been cleared of ISIS extremists who stayed behind to fight. After the town’s liberation as part of the Mosul Offensive residents and priests of the town are now free to take short trips to assess damage, salvage possessions and clear up the mess left by militants during their two year occupation.<br />
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Hamdaniyah, and much of the Nineveh plains, were captured by the Islamic State during a large offensive on the 7th of August 2014 that saw the extremists advance to within 20km of the Iraqi Kurdish capital Erbil. Residents of the town, who included many Christian refugees who escaped there after the fall of Mosul, were then forced to seek sanctuary in the Kurdish areas. In the year and two months of the ISIS occupation churches were burnt, homes were put into use as militant accommodation and bomb factories and some buildings destroyed by coalition airstrikes. Photo credit: Matt Cetti-Roberts/LNP
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  • © Licensed to London News Pictures. 04/11/2016. Hamdaniyah, Iraq. A building on the outskirts of the recently liberated town of Hamdaniyah, Iraq, bears the signs of recent fighting.<br />
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Although located close to a front line, littered with improvised explosive devices and pieces of unexploded ordnance the Christian town of Hamdaniyah has only recently been cleared of ISIS extremists who stayed behind to fight. After the town’s liberation as part of the Mosul Offensive residents and priests of the town are now free to take short trips to assess damage, salvage possessions and clear up the mess left by militants during their two year occupation.<br />
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Hamdaniyah, and much of the Nineveh plains, were captured by the Islamic State during a large offensive on the 7th of August 2014 that saw the extremists advance to within 20km of the Iraqi Kurdish capital Erbil. Residents of the town, who included many Christian refugees who escaped there after the fall of Mosul, were then forced to seek sanctuary in the Kurdish areas. In the year and two months of the ISIS occupation churches were burnt, homes were put into use as militant accommodation and bomb factories and some buildings destroyed by coalition airstrikes. Photo credit: Matt Cetti-Roberts/LNP
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  • © Licensed to London News Pictures. 04/11/2016. Hamdaniyah, Iraq. Father Ignatius Offy, a Christian priest, prays at the fire damaged alter in the burnt out shell of the Syriac Catholic Church of Mar Behnam and his sister Mart Sarah in the recently liberated Christian town of Hamdaniyah, Iraq. The church was vandalised and burnt by Islamic State militants during their two year occupation of the town which was retaken by Iraqi Security Forces during the ongoing Mosul Offensive.<br />
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Although located close to a front line, littered with improvised explosive devices and pieces of unexploded ordnance the Christian town of Hamdaniyah has only recently been cleared of ISIS extremists who stayed behind to fight. After the town’s liberation as part of the Mosul Offensive residents and priests of the town are now free to take short trips to assess damage, salvage possessions and clear up the mess left by militants during their two year occupation.<br />
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Hamdaniyah, and much of the Nineveh plains, were captured by the Islamic State during a large offensive on the 7th of August 2014 that saw the extremists advance to within 20km of the Iraqi Kurdish capital Erbil. Residents of the town, who included many Christian refugees who escaped there after the fall of Mosul, were then forced to seek sanctuary in the Kurdish areas. In the year and two months of the ISIS occupation churches were burnt, homes were put into use as militant accommodation and bomb factories and some buildings destroyed by coalition airstrikes. Photo credit: Matt Cetti-Roberts/LNP
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