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  • Licensed to London News Pictures. 02/11/2016. Qayyarah, Iraq. With the sky blotted out by burning oil wells, a soldier of the Iraqi Army's Emergency Response Unit holds up the Iraqi flag from the top of an armed Humvee utility vehicle as his convoy enters the town of Qayyarah, Iraq.<br />
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Two months after being liberated from the Islamic State, the Iraqi town of Qayyarah, located around 30km south of Mosul, is still dealing with the environmental repercussions of their ISIS occupation. The town's estimated 15,000 inhabitants constantly live under, and in, heavy clouds of smoke which often envelope the settlement. The clouds emanate from burning oil wells in a nearby oil field that were set alight by retreating ISIS extremists after a two year occupation. The proximity of the fires, often right next to homes within the town, covers many buildings and residents with thick soot and will lead to long term health and environmental implications. Photo credit: Matt Cetti-Roberts/LNP
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  • Licensed to London News Pictures. 02/11/2016. Qayyarah, Iraq. Children run amongst vandalised gravestones, smashed by Islamic State militants, in the Qayyarah Cemetery in the town of Qayyarah, Iraq. The headstones were vandalised by the extremists, who believe that a grave should be flat to the earth and without markings, during the towns two year ISIS occupation.<br />
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Two months after being liberated from the Islamic State, the Iraqi town of Qayyarah, located around 30km south of Mosul, is still dealing with the environmental repercussions of their ISIS occupation. The town's estimated 15,000 inhabitants constantly live under, and in, heavy clouds of smoke which often envelope the settlement. The clouds emanate from burning oil wells in a nearby oil field that were set alight by retreating ISIS extremists after a two year occupation. The proximity of the fires, often right next to homes within the town, covers many buildings and residents with thick soot and will lead to long term health and environmental implications. Photo credit: Matt Cetti-Roberts/LNP
    LNP_QAYY_OIL_14_MCR.JPG
  • Licensed to London News Pictures. 02/11/2016. Qayyarah, Iraq. Children run amongst vandalised gravestones, smashed by Islamic State militants, in the Qayyarah Cemetery in the town of Qayyarah, Iraq. The headstones were vandalised by the extremists, who believe that a grave should be flat to the earth and without markings, during the towns two year ISIS occupation.<br />
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Two months after being liberated from the Islamic State, the Iraqi town of Qayyarah, located around 30km south of Mosul, is still dealing with the environmental repercussions of their ISIS occupation. The town's estimated 15,000 inhabitants constantly live under, and in, heavy clouds of smoke which often envelope the settlement. The clouds emanate from burning oil wells in a nearby oil field that were set alight by retreating ISIS extremists after a two year occupation. The proximity of the fires, often right next to homes within the town, covers many buildings and residents with thick soot and will lead to long term health and environmental implications. Photo credit: Matt Cetti-Roberts/LNP
    LNP_QAYY_OIL_12_MCR.JPG
  • Licensed to London News Pictures. 02/11/2016. Qayyarah, Iraq. Children run amongst vandalised gravestones, smashed by Islamic State militants, in the Qayyarah Cemetery in the town of Qayyarah, Iraq. The headstones were vandalised by the extremists, who believe that a grave should be flat to the earth and without markings, during the towns two year ISIS occupation.<br />
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Two months after being liberated from the Islamic State, the Iraqi town of Qayyarah, located around 30km south of Mosul, is still dealing with the environmental repercussions of their ISIS occupation. The town's estimated 15,000 inhabitants constantly live under, and in, heavy clouds of smoke which often envelope the settlement. The clouds emanate from burning oil wells in a nearby oil field that were set alight by retreating ISIS extremists after a two year occupation. The proximity of the fires, often right next to homes within the town, covers many buildings and residents with thick soot and will lead to long term health and environmental implications. Photo credit: Matt Cetti-Roberts/LNP
    LNP_QAYY_OIL_13_MCR.JPG
  • Licensed to London News Pictures. 02/11/2016. Qayyarah, Iraq. A child walks along disused railway tracks as thick smoke rises from boring oil wells, set alight by retreating Islamic State militants, in the town of Qayyarah, Iraq.<br />
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Two months after being liberated from the Islamic State, the Iraqi town of Qayyarah, located around 30km south of Mosul, is still dealing with the environmental repercussions of their ISIS occupation. The town's estimated 15,000 inhabitants constantly live under, and in, heavy clouds of smoke which often envelope the settlement. The clouds emanate from burning oil wells in a nearby oil field that were set alight by retreating ISIS extremists after a two year occupation. The proximity of the fires, often right next to homes within the town, covers many buildings and residents with thick soot and will lead to long term health and environmental implications. Photo credit: Matt Cetti-Roberts/LNP
    LNP_QAYY_OIL_04_MCR.JPG
  • Licensed to London News Pictures. 02/11/2016. Qayyarah, Iraq. Civilians go about their daily lives under a cloud of smoke, coming from burning oil wells set alight by Islamic State militants, in the Iraqi town of Qayyarah, Iraq.<br />
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Two months after being liberated from the Islamic State, the Iraqi town of Qayyarah, located around 30km south of Mosul, is still dealing with the environmental repercussions of their ISIS occupation. The town's estimated 15,000 inhabitants constantly live under, and in, heavy clouds of smoke which often envelope the settlement. The clouds emanate from burning oil wells in a nearby oil field that were set alight by retreating ISIS extremists after a two year occupation. The proximity of the fires, often right next to homes within the town, covers many buildings and residents with thick soot and will lead to long term health and environmental implications. Photo credit: Matt Cetti-Roberts/LNP
    LNP_QAYY_OIL_29_MCR.JPG
  • Licensed to London News Pictures. 02/11/2016. Qayyarah, Iraq. With the sky blotted out by burning oil wells, set alight by retreating Islamic State militants, soldiers of the Iraqi Army's Emergency Response Unit keep watch from the top of their armed Humvee utility vehicle as their convoy enters the town of Qayyarah, Iraq.<br />
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Two months after being liberated from the Islamic State, the Iraqi town of Qayyarah, located around 30km south of Mosul, is still dealing with the environmental repercussions of their ISIS occupation. The town's estimated 15,000 inhabitants constantly live under, and in, heavy clouds of smoke which often envelope the settlement. The clouds emanate from burning oil wells in a nearby oil field that were set alight by retreating ISIS extremists after a two year occupation. The proximity of the fires, often right next to homes within the town, covers many buildings and residents with thick soot and will lead to long term health and environmental implications. Photo credit: Matt Cetti-Roberts/LNP
    LNP_QAYY_OIL_25_MCR.JPG
  • Licensed to London News Pictures. 02/11/2016. Qayyarah, Iraq. Blacked by the smoke from nearby burning oil wells, set alight by retreating Islamic State militants, the Iraqi flag flies from a building in the town of Qayyarah, Iraq.<br />
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Two months after being liberated from the Islamic State, the Iraqi town of Qayyarah, located around 30km south of Mosul, is still dealing with the environmental repercussions of their ISIS occupation. The town's estimated 15,000 inhabitants constantly live under, and in, heavy clouds of smoke which often envelope the settlement. The clouds emanate from burning oil wells in a nearby oil field that were set alight by retreating ISIS extremists after a two year occupation. The proximity of the fires, often right next to homes within the town, covers many buildings and residents with thick soot and will lead to long term health and environmental implications. Photo credit: Matt Cetti-Roberts/LNP
    LNP_QAYY_OIL_28_MCR.JPG
  • Licensed to London News Pictures. 02/11/2016. Qayyarah, Iraq. Civilians go about their daily lives under a cloud of smoke, coming from burning oil wells set alight by Islamic State militants, in the Iraqi town of Qayyarah, Iraq.<br />
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Two months after being liberated from the Islamic State, the Iraqi town of Qayyarah, located around 30km south of Mosul, is still dealing with the environmental repercussions of their ISIS occupation. The town's estimated 15,000 inhabitants constantly live under, and in, heavy clouds of smoke which often envelope the settlement. The clouds emanate from burning oil wells in a nearby oil field that were set alight by retreating ISIS extremists after a two year occupation. The proximity of the fires, often right next to homes within the town, covers many buildings and residents with thick soot and will lead to long term health and environmental implications. Photo credit: Matt Cetti-Roberts/LNP
    LNP_QAYY_OIL_27_MCR.JPG
  • Licensed to London News Pictures. 02/11/2016. Qayyarah, Iraq. With the sky blotted out by burning oil wells, set alight by retreating Islamic State militants, soldiers of the Iraqi Army's Emergency Response Unit keep watch from the top of their armed Humvee utility vehicle as their convoy drives through the main street of Qayyarah, Iraq.<br />
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Two months after being liberated from the Islamic State, the Iraqi town of Qayyarah, located around 30km south of Mosul, is still dealing with the environmental repercussions of their ISIS occupation. The town's estimated 15,000 inhabitants constantly live under, and in, heavy clouds of smoke which often envelope the settlement. The clouds emanate from burning oil wells in a nearby oil field that were set alight by retreating ISIS extremists after a two year occupation. The proximity of the fires, often right next to homes within the town, covers many buildings and residents with thick soot and will lead to long term health and environmental implications. Photo credit: Matt Cetti-Roberts/LNP
    LNP_QAYY_OIL_26_MCR.JPG
  • Licensed to London News Pictures. 02/11/2016. Qayyarah, Iraq. With the sky blotted out by burning oil wells, a soldier of the Iraqi Army's Emergency Response Unit holds up the Iraqi flag from the top of an armed Humvee utility vehicle as his convoy enters the town of Qayyarah, Iraq.<br />
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Two months after being liberated from the Islamic State, the Iraqi town of Qayyarah, located around 30km south of Mosul, is still dealing with the environmental repercussions of their ISIS occupation. The town's estimated 15,000 inhabitants constantly live under, and in, heavy clouds of smoke which often envelope the settlement. The clouds emanate from burning oil wells in a nearby oil field that were set alight by retreating ISIS extremists after a two year occupation. The proximity of the fires, often right next to homes within the town, covers many buildings and residents with thick soot and will lead to long term health and environmental implications. Photo credit: Matt Cetti-Roberts/LNP
    LNP_QAYY_OIL_24_MCR.JPG
  • Licensed to London News Pictures. 02/11/2016. Qayyarah, Iraq. Plumes of smoke, visible for many miles, rise from the Qayyarah Oilfields south of Mosul, Iraq.<br />
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Two months after being liberated from the Islamic State, the Iraqi town of Qayyarah, located around 30km south of Mosul, is still dealing with the environmental repercussions of their ISIS occupation. The town's estimated 15,000 inhabitants constantly live under, and in, heavy clouds of smoke which often envelope the settlement. The clouds emanate from burning oil wells in a nearby oil field that were set alight by retreating ISIS extremists after a two year occupation. The proximity of the fires, often right next to homes within the town, covers many buildings and residents with thick soot and will lead to long term health and environmental implications. Photo credit: Matt Cetti-Roberts/LNP
    LNP_QAYY_OIL_19_MCR.JPG
  • Licensed to London News Pictures. 02/11/2016. Qayyarah, Iraq. Plumes of smoke, visible for many miles, rise from the Qayyarah Oilfields south of Mosul, Iraq.<br />
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Two months after being liberated from the Islamic State, the Iraqi town of Qayyarah, located around 30km south of Mosul, is still dealing with the environmental repercussions of their ISIS occupation. The town's estimated 15,000 inhabitants constantly live under, and in, heavy clouds of smoke which often envelope the settlement. The clouds emanate from burning oil wells in a nearby oil field that were set alight by retreating ISIS extremists after a two year occupation. The proximity of the fires, often right next to homes within the town, covers many buildings and residents with thick soot and will lead to long term health and environmental implications. Photo credit: Matt Cetti-Roberts/LNP
    LNP_QAYY_OIL_20_MCR.JPG
  • Licensed to London News Pictures. 02/11/2016. Qayyarah, Iraq. Smoke from burning oil wells, set alight by retreating Islamic State militants, are seen from the vandalised Qayyarah Cemetery (foreground) in Qayyarah, Iraq. Headstones in the cemetery were smashed by ISIS extremists who believe that a grave should be flat to the earth and without markings, during the towns two year ISIS occupation.<br />
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Two months after being liberated from the Islamic State, the Iraqi town of Qayyarah, located around 30km south of Mosul, is still dealing with the environmental repercussions of their ISIS occupation. The town's estimated 15,000 inhabitants constantly live under, and in, heavy clouds of smoke which often envelope the settlement. The clouds emanate from burning oil wells in a nearby oil field that were set alight by retreating ISIS extremists after a two year occupation. The proximity of the fires, often right next to homes within the town, covers many buildings and residents with thick soot and will lead to long term health and environmental implications. Photo credit: Matt Cetti-Roberts/LNP
    LNP_QAYY_OIL_15_MCR.JPG
  • Licensed to London News Pictures. 02/11/2016. Qayyarah, Iraq. A man walks along disused railway tracks as thick smoke rises from boring oil wells, set alight by retreating Islamic State militants, in the town of Qayyarah, Iraq.<br />
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Two months after being liberated from the Islamic State, the Iraqi town of Qayyarah, located around 30km south of Mosul, is still dealing with the environmental repercussions of their ISIS occupation. The town's estimated 15,000 inhabitants constantly live under, and in, heavy clouds of smoke which often envelope the settlement. The clouds emanate from burning oil wells in a nearby oil field that were set alight by retreating ISIS extremists after a two year occupation. The proximity of the fires, often right next to homes within the town, covers many buildings and residents with thick soot and will lead to long term health and environmental implications. Photo credit: Matt Cetti-Roberts/LNP
    LNP_QAYY_OIL_11_MCR.JPG
  • Licensed to London News Pictures. 02/11/2016. Qayyarah, Iraq. Gravestones, smashed by Islamic State militants, litter the Qayyarah Cemetery in the town of Qayyarah, Iraq. The headstones were vandalised by the extremists, who believe that a grave should be flat to the earth and without markings, during the towns two year ISIS occupation.<br />
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Two months after being liberated from the Islamic State, the Iraqi town of Qayyarah, located around 30km south of Mosul, is still dealing with the environmental repercussions of their ISIS occupation. The town's estimated 15,000 inhabitants constantly live under, and in, heavy clouds of smoke which often envelope the settlement. The clouds emanate from burning oil wells in a nearby oil field that were set alight by retreating ISIS extremists after a two year occupation. The proximity of the fires, often right next to homes within the town, covers many buildings and residents with thick soot and will lead to long term health and environmental implications. Photo credit: Matt Cetti-Roberts/LNP
    LNP_QAYY_OIL_09_MCR.JPG
  • Licensed to London News Pictures. 02/11/2016. Qayyarah, Iraq. Gravestones, smashed by Islamic State militants, litter the Qayyarah Cemetery in the town of Qayyarah, Iraq. The headstones were vandalised by the extremists, who believe that a grave should be flat to the earth and without markings, during the towns two year ISIS occupation.<br />
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Two months after being liberated from the Islamic State, the Iraqi town of Qayyarah, located around 30km south of Mosul, is still dealing with the environmental repercussions of their ISIS occupation. The town's estimated 15,000 inhabitants constantly live under, and in, heavy clouds of smoke which often envelope the settlement. The clouds emanate from burning oil wells in a nearby oil field that were set alight by retreating ISIS extremists after a two year occupation. The proximity of the fires, often right next to homes within the town, covers many buildings and residents with thick soot and will lead to long term health and environmental implications. Photo credit: Matt Cetti-Roberts/LNP
    LNP_QAYY_OIL_10_MCR.JPG
  • Licensed to London News Pictures. 02/11/2016. Qayyarah, Iraq. Gravestones, smashed by Islamic State militants, litter the Qayyarah Cemetery in the town of Qayyarah, Iraq. The headstones were vandalised by the extremists, who believe that a grave should be flat to the earth and without markings, during the towns two year ISIS occupation.<br />
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Two months after being liberated from the Islamic State, the Iraqi town of Qayyarah, located around 30km south of Mosul, is still dealing with the environmental repercussions of their ISIS occupation. The town's estimated 15,000 inhabitants constantly live under, and in, heavy clouds of smoke which often envelope the settlement. The clouds emanate from burning oil wells in a nearby oil field that were set alight by retreating ISIS extremists after a two year occupation. The proximity of the fires, often right next to homes within the town, covers many buildings and residents with thick soot and will lead to long term health and environmental implications. Photo credit: Matt Cetti-Roberts/LNP
    LNP_QAYY_OIL_06_MCR.JPG
  • Licensed to London News Pictures. 02/11/2016. Qayyarah, Iraq. Gravestones, smashed by Islamic State militants, litter the Qayyarah Cemetery in the town of Qayyarah, Iraq. The headstones were vandalised by the extremists, who believe that a grave should be flat to the earth and without markings, during the towns two year ISIS occupation.<br />
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Two months after being liberated from the Islamic State, the Iraqi town of Qayyarah, located around 30km south of Mosul, is still dealing with the environmental repercussions of their ISIS occupation. The town's estimated 15,000 inhabitants constantly live under, and in, heavy clouds of smoke which often envelope the settlement. The clouds emanate from burning oil wells in a nearby oil field that were set alight by retreating ISIS extremists after a two year occupation. The proximity of the fires, often right next to homes within the town, covers many buildings and residents with thick soot and will lead to long term health and environmental implications. Photo credit: Matt Cetti-Roberts/LNP
    LNP_QAYY_OIL_07_MCR.JPG
  • Licensed to London News Pictures. 02/11/2016. Qayyarah, Iraq. With the sky blotted out by burning oil wells, a soldier of the Iraqi Army's Emergency Response Unit holds up the Iraqi flag from the top of an armed Humvee utility vehicle as his convoy enters the town of Qayyarah, Iraq.<br />
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Two months after being liberated from the Islamic State, the Iraqi town of Qayyarah, located around 30km south of Mosul, is still dealing with the environmental repercussions of their ISIS occupation. The town's estimated 15,000 inhabitants constantly live under, and in, heavy clouds of smoke which often envelope the settlement. The clouds emanate from burning oil wells in a nearby oil field that were set alight by retreating ISIS extremists after a two year occupation. The proximity of the fires, often right next to homes within the town, covers many buildings and residents with thick soot and will lead to long term health and environmental implications. Photo credit: Matt Cetti-Roberts/LNP
    LNP_QAYY_OIL_01_MCR.JPG
  • Licensed to London News Pictures. 02/11/2016. Qayyarah, Iraq. Plumes of smoke, visible for many miles, rise from the Qayyarah Oilfields south of Mosul, Iraq.<br />
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Two months after being liberated from the Islamic State, the Iraqi town of Qayyarah, located around 30km south of Mosul, is still dealing with the environmental repercussions of their ISIS occupation. The town's estimated 15,000 inhabitants constantly live under, and in, heavy clouds of smoke which often envelope the settlement. The clouds emanate from burning oil wells in a nearby oil field that were set alight by retreating ISIS extremists after a two year occupation. The proximity of the fires, often right next to homes within the town, covers many buildings and residents with thick soot and will lead to long term health and environmental implications. Photo credit: Matt Cetti-Roberts/LNP
    LNP_QAYY_OIL_02_MCR.JPG
  • Licensed to London News Pictures. 02/11/2016. Qayyarah, Iraq. Smoke and flames rise from a burning oil well, set alight by retreating Islamic State militants, located with the Iraqi town of Qayyarah.<br />
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Two months after being liberated from the Islamic State, the Iraqi town of Qayyarah, located around 30km south of Mosul, is still dealing with the environmental repercussions of their ISIS occupation. The town's estimated 15,000 inhabitants constantly live under, and in, heavy clouds of smoke which often envelope the settlement. The clouds emanate from burning oil wells in a nearby oil field that were set alight by retreating ISIS extremists after a two year occupation. The proximity of the fires, often right next to homes within the town, covers many buildings and residents with thick soot and will lead to long term health and environmental implications. Photo credit: Matt Cetti-Roberts/LNP
    LNP_QAYY_OIL_16_MCR.JPG
  • Licensed to London News Pictures. 02/11/2016. Qayyarah, Iraq. Plumes of smoke, rising from the Qayyarah Oilfield, blot out the afternoon sun.<br />
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Two months after being liberated from the Islamic State, the Iraqi town of Qayyarah, located around 30km south of Mosul, is still dealing with the environmental repercussions of their ISIS occupation. The town's estimated 15,000 inhabitants constantly live under, and in, heavy clouds of smoke which often envelope the settlement. The clouds emanate from burning oil wells in a nearby oil field that were set alight by retreating ISIS extremists after a two year occupation. The proximity of the fires, often right next to homes within the town, covers many buildings and residents with thick soot and will lead to long term health and environmental implications. Photo credit: Matt Cetti-Roberts/LNP
    LNP_QAYY_OIL_23_MCR.JPG
  • Licensed to London News Pictures. 02/11/2016. Qayyarah, Iraq. Plumes of smoke, rising from the Qayyarah Oilfield, blot out the afternoon sun.<br />
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Two months after being liberated from the Islamic State, the Iraqi town of Qayyarah, located around 30km south of Mosul, is still dealing with the environmental repercussions of their ISIS occupation. The town's estimated 15,000 inhabitants constantly live under, and in, heavy clouds of smoke which often envelope the settlement. The clouds emanate from burning oil wells in a nearby oil field that were set alight by retreating ISIS extremists after a two year occupation. The proximity of the fires, often right next to homes within the town, covers many buildings and residents with thick soot and will lead to long term health and environmental implications. Photo credit: Matt Cetti-Roberts/LNP
    LNP_QAYY_OIL_21_MCR.JPG
  • Licensed to London News Pictures. 02/11/2016. Qayyarah, Iraq. Smoke and flames rise from a burning oil well, set alight by retreating Islamic State militants, located with the Iraqi town of Qayyarah.<br />
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Two months after being liberated from the Islamic State, the Iraqi town of Qayyarah, located around 30km south of Mosul, is still dealing with the environmental repercussions of their ISIS occupation. The town's estimated 15,000 inhabitants constantly live under, and in, heavy clouds of smoke which often envelope the settlement. The clouds emanate from burning oil wells in a nearby oil field that were set alight by retreating ISIS extremists after a two year occupation. The proximity of the fires, often right next to homes within the town, covers many buildings and residents with thick soot and will lead to long term health and environmental implications. Photo credit: Matt Cetti-Roberts/LNP
    LNP_QAYY_OIL_18_MCR.JPG
  • Licensed to London News Pictures. 02/11/2016. Qayyarah, Iraq. Smoke and flames rise from burning oil welsl, set alight by retreating Islamic State militants, located with the Iraqi town of Qayyarah.<br />
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Two months after being liberated from the Islamic State, the Iraqi town of Qayyarah, located around 30km south of Mosul, is still dealing with the environmental repercussions of their ISIS occupation. The town's estimated 15,000 inhabitants constantly live under, and in, heavy clouds of smoke which often envelope the settlement. The clouds emanate from burning oil wells in a nearby oil field that were set alight by retreating ISIS extremists after a two year occupation. The proximity of the fires, often right next to homes within the town, covers many buildings and residents with thick soot and will lead to long term health and environmental implications. Photo credit: Matt Cetti-Roberts/LNP
    LNP_QAYY_OIL_17_MCR.JPG
  • Licensed to London News Pictures. 02/11/2016. Qayyarah, Iraq. Smoke from burning oil wells, set alight by retreating Islamic State militants, clogs the sky over the Qayyarah Cemetery, in the Iraqi town of the same name. Both Shia and Sunni graves within the cemetery were smashed during the town's two year occupation by ISIS extremists who believe that graves should be flat to the earth with no headstone. <br />
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Two months after being liberated from the Islamic State, the Iraqi town of Qayyarah, located around 30km south of Mosul, is still dealing with the environmental repercussions of their ISIS occupation. The town's estimated 15,000 inhabitants constantly live under, and in, heavy clouds of smoke which often envelope the settlement. The clouds emanate from burning oil wells in a nearby oil field that were set alight by retreating ISIS extremists after a two year occupation. The proximity of the fires, often right next to homes within the town, covers many buildings and residents with thick soot and will lead to long term health and environmental implications. Photo credit: Matt Cetti-Roberts/LNP
    LNP_QAYY_OIL_08_MCR.JPG
  • Licensed to London News Pictures. 02/11/2016. Qayyarah, Iraq. A thick smoke cloud, coming from nearby burning oil wells which were set alight by retreating Islamic State militants, covers the sky over the main street through the Iraqi town of Qayyarah.<br />
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Two months after being liberated from the Islamic State, the Iraqi town of Qayyarah, located around 30km south of Mosul, is still dealing with the environmental repercussions of their ISIS occupation. The town's estimated 15,000 inhabitants constantly live under, and in, heavy clouds of smoke which often envelope the settlement. The clouds emanate from burning oil wells in a nearby oil field that were set alight by retreating ISIS extremists after a two year occupation. The proximity of the fires, often right next to homes within the town, covers many buildings and residents with thick soot and will lead to long term health and environmental implications. Photo credit: Matt Cetti-Roberts/LNP
    LNP_QAYY_OIL_03_MCR.JPG
  • Licensed to London News Pictures. 02/11/2016. Qayyarah, Iraq. Smoke from burning oil wells, set alight by retreating Islamic State militants, clogs the sky over the Qayyarah Cemetery, in the Iraqi town of the same name. Both Shia and Sunni graves within the cemetery were smashed during the town's two year occupation by ISIS extremists who believe that graves should be flat to the earth with no headstone. <br />
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Two months after being liberated from the Islamic State, the Iraqi town of Qayyarah, located around 30km south of Mosul, is still dealing with the environmental repercussions of their ISIS occupation. The town's estimated 15,000 inhabitants constantly live under, and in, heavy clouds of smoke which often envelope the settlement. The clouds emanate from burning oil wells in a nearby oil field that were set alight by retreating ISIS extremists after a two year occupation. The proximity of the fires, often right next to homes within the town, covers many buildings and residents with thick soot and will lead to long term health and environmental implications. Photo credit: Matt Cetti-Roberts/LNP
    LNP_QAYY_OIL_05_MCR.JPG
  • Licensed to London News Pictures. 01/04/2017. Mosul, Iraq. A Mosul resident walks down a street close to the fighting taking place between Iraqi troops and the Islamic State in West Mosul, Iraq, today (01/04/2017). Iraqi forces continue to fight house to house as they push further into West Mosul. Iraqi forces are now advancing on the city's old districts where Islamic State fighters still hold out. Photo credit: Matt Cetti-Roberts/LNP
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  • Licensed to London News Pictures. 01/04/2017. Mosul, Iraq. Mosul residents walk down a street close to the fighting taking place between Iraqi troops and the Islamic State in West Mosul, Iraq, today (01/04/2017). Iraqi forces continue to fight house to house as they push further into West Mosul. Iraqi forces are now advancing on the city's old districts where Islamic State fighters still hold out. Photo credit: Matt Cetti-Roberts/LNP
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  • Licensed to London News Pictures. 01/04/2017. Mosul, Iraq. An Iraqi Federal Police sniper takes searches for Islamic State fighters with his rifle in West Mosul, Iraq, today (01/04/2017). Iraqi forces continue to fight house to house as they push further into West Mosul. Iraqi forces are now advancing on the city's old districts where Islamic State fighters still hold out. Photo credit: Matt Cetti-Roberts/LNP
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  • Licensed to London News Pictures. 01/04/2017. Mosul, Iraq. An Iraqi Army Aviation Mi-35 Hind attack helicopter fires rockets at ISIS positions in West Mosul, Iraq, today (01/04/2017). Iraqi forces continue to fight house to house as they push further into West Mosul. Iraqi forces are now advancing on the city's old districts where Islamic State fighters still hold out. Photo credit: Matt Cetti-Roberts/LNP
    LNP_Mosul_Iraq_MCR_11.JPG
  • Licensed to London News Pictures. 01/04/2017. Mosul, Iraq. An Iraqi Federal Police officer fires at Islamic State fighters, around 175 metres away, from his position in West Mosul, Iraq, today (01/04/2017). Iraqi forces continue to fight house to house as they push further into West Mosul. Iraqi forces are now advancing on the city's old districts where Islamic State fighters still hold out. Photo credit: Matt Cetti-Roberts/LNP
    LNP_Mosul_Iraq_MCR_08.JPG
  • Licensed to London News Pictures. 01/04/2017. Mosul, Iraq. Iraqi Federal Police officers take cover as Islamic State fighters, around 175 metres away, fire at their position in West Mosul, Iraq, today (01/04/2017). Iraqi forces continue to fight house to house as they push further into West Mosul. Iraqi forces are now advancing on the city's old districts where Islamic State fighters still hold out. Photo credit: Matt Cetti-Roberts/LNP
    LNP_Mosul_Iraq_MCR_07.JPG
  • Licensed to London News Pictures. 01/04/2017. Mosul, Iraq. A Federal Police machine gunner runs across a West Mosul room after firing at Islamic State militants in Iraq today (01/04/2017). Iraqi forces continue to fight house to house as they push further into West Mosul. Iraqi forces are now advancing on the city's old districts where Islamic State fighters still hold out. Photo credit: Matt Cetti-Roberts/LNP
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  • Licensed to London News Pictures. 01/04/2017. Mosul, Iraq. An Iraqi Federal Police RPG gunner looks for an ISIS target from a West Mosul rooftop in Iraq today (01/04/2017). Iraqi forces continue to fight house to house as they push further into West Mosul. Iraqi forces are now advancing on the city's old districts where Islamic State fighters still hold out. Photo credit: Matt Cetti-Roberts/LNP
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  • Licensed to London News Pictures. 01/04/2017. Mosul, Iraq. Iraqi Federal Police officers prepare their equipment in West Mosul, Iraq, today (01/04/2017). Iraqi forces continue to fight house to house as they push further into West Mosul. Iraqi forces are now advancing on the city's old districts where Islamic State fighters still hold out. Photo credit: Matt Cetti-Roberts/LNP
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  • Licensed to London News Pictures. 01/04/2017. Mosul, Iraq. An Iraqi Federal Police sniper team observe Islamic State fighters, around 175 metres away, from their position in West Mosul, Iraq, today (01/04/2017). Iraqi forces continue to fight house to house as they push further into West Mosul. Iraqi forces are now advancing on the city's old districts where Islamic State fighters still hold out. Photo credit: Matt Cetti-Roberts/LNP
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  • Licensed to London News Pictures. 01/04/2017. Mosul, Iraq. An Iraqi Federal Police RPG gunner shouts as he fires a rocket at an ISIS target from a West Mosul rooftop in Iraq today (01/04/2017). Iraqi forces continue to fight house to house as they push further into West Mosul. Iraqi forces are now advancing on the city's old districts where Islamic State fighters still hold out. Photo credit: Matt Cetti-Roberts/LNP
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  • Licensed to London News Pictures. 01/04/2017. Mosul, Iraq. An Iraqi Federal Police officer looks for ISIS snipers as he crosses a road in West Mosul, Iraq, today (01/04/2017). Iraqi forces continue to fight house to house as they push further into West Mosul. Iraqi forces are now advancing on the city's old districts where Islamic State fighters still hold out. Photo credit: Matt Cetti-Roberts/LNP
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  • Licensed to London News Pictures. 01/04/2017. Mosul, Iraq. Iraqi Federal Police officers look for an ISIS sniper inside a West Mosul building today (01/04/2017). Iraqi forces continue to fight house to house as they push further into West Mosul. Iraqi forces are now advancing on the city's old districts where Islamic State fighters still hold out. Photo credit: Matt Cetti-Roberts/LNP
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  • © Licensed to London News Pictures. 12/05/2013. Dohuk, Iraq. Syrian refugees are seen in the entrance to their tent at a refugee camp in Iraqi-Kurdistan, set up for Syrians escaping the ongoing civil war. The camp, close to the city of Dohuk, now houses in the region of 45,000 refugees, with around 400 new arrivals every day. Photo credit: Matt Cetti-Roberts/LNP
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  • © Licensed to London News Pictures. 12/05/2013. Dohuk, Iraq. A young Syrian refugee plays with a shovel outside his tent at the Domiz refugee camp in Iraqi-Kurdistan, set up for those escaping the ongoing civil war in Syria. The camp, close to the city of Dohuk, now houses in the region of 45,000 refugees, with around 400 new arrivals every day. Photo credit: Matt Cetti-Roberts/LNP
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  • © Licensed to London News Pictures. 12/05/2013. Dohuk, Iraq. A young Syrian refugee sits outside his tent at the Domiz refugee camp in Iraqi-Kurdistan, set up for those escaping the ongoing civil war in Syria. The camp, close to the city of Dohuk, now houses in the region of 45,000 refugees, with around 400 new arrivals every day. Photo credit: Matt Cetti-Roberts/LNP
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  • © Licensed to London News Pictures. 12/05/2013. Dohuk, Iraq. A Syrian refugee hangs washing on a fence inside the Domiz refugee camp in Iraqi-Kurdistan, set up for those escaping the ongoing civil war in Syria. The camp, close to the city of Dohuk, now houses in the region of 45,000 refugees, with around 400 new arrivals every day. Photo credit: Matt Cetti-Roberts/LNP
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  • © Licensed to London News Pictures. 12/05/2013. Dohuk, Iraq. Syrian refugees are seen inside the Domiz refugee camp in Iraqi-Kurdistan, set up for those escaping the ongoing civil war in Syria. The camp, close to the city of Dohuk, now houses in the region of 45,000 refugees, with around 400 new arrivals every day. Photo credit: Matt Cetti-Roberts/LNP
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  • © Licensed to London News Pictures. 12/05/2013. Dohuk, Iraq. Syrian refugees are seen inside the Domiz refugee camp in Iraqi-Kurdistan, set up for those escaping the ongoing civil war in Syria. The camp, close to the city of Dohuk, now houses in the region of 45,000 refugees, with around 400 new arrivals every day. Photo credit: Matt Cetti-Roberts/LNP
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  • © Licensed to London News Pictures. 12/05/2013. Dohuk, Iraq. Syrian refugees are seen inside the Domiz refugee camp in Iraqi-Kurdistan, set up for those escaping the ongoing civil war in Syria. The camp, close to the city of Dohuk, now houses in the region of 45,000 refugees, with around 400 new arrivals every day. Photo credit: Matt Cetti-Roberts/LNP
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  • © Licensed to London News Pictures. 12/05/2013. Dohuk, Iraq. Syrian refugees are seen inside the Domiz refugee camp in Iraqi-Kurdistan, set up for those escaping the ongoing civil war in Syria. The camp, close to the city of Dohuk, now houses in the region of 45,000 refugees, with around 400 new arrivals every day. Photo credit: Matt Cetti-Roberts/LNP
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  • © Licensed to London News Pictures. 12/05/2013. Dohuk, Iraq. A young Syrian refugee skips with a piece of rope at a refugee camp inside Iraqi-Kurdistan set up for Syrians fleeing the ongoing civil war. The camp, close to the city of Dohuk, now houses in the region of 45,000 refugees, with around 400 new arrivals every day. Photo credit: Matt Cetti-Roberts/LNP
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  • © Licensed to London News Pictures. 12/05/2013. Dohuk, Iraq. A tent provided by the UNHCR is seen inside a refugee camp in Iraqi-Kurdistan, set up for Syrians escaping the ongoing civil war. The camp, close to the city of Dohuk, now houses in the region of 45,000 refugees, with around 400 new arrivals every day. Photo credit: Matt Cetti-Roberts/LNP
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  • © Licensed to London News Pictures. 12/05/2013. Dohuk, Iraq. Young Syrian refugees collect water from a tanker at a refugee camp in Iraqi-Kurdistan, set up for Syrians escaping the ongoing civil war. The camp, close to the city of Dohuk, now houses in the region of 45,000 refugees, with around 400 new arrivals every day. Photo credit: Matt Cetti-Roberts/LNP
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  • © Licensed to London News Pictures. 12/05/2013. Dohuk, Iraq. Young Syrian refugees carry water back to their tents at a refugee camp in Iraqi-Kurdistan, set up for Syrians escaping the ongoing civil war. The camp, close to the city of Dohuk, now houses in the region of 45,000 refugees, with around 400 new arrivals every day. Photo credit: Matt Cetti-Roberts/LNP
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  • © Licensed to London News Pictures. 12/05/2013. Dohuk, Iraq. Young Syrian refugees collect water from a tanker at a refugee camp in Iraqi-Kurdistan, set up for Syrians escaping the ongoing civil war. The camp, close to the city of Dohuk, now houses in the region of 45,000 refugees, with around 400 new arrivals every day. Photo credit: Matt Cetti-Roberts/LNP
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  • © Licensed to London News Pictures. 12/05/2013. Dohuk, Iraq. Syrian refugees are seen in the entrance to their tent at a refugee camp in Iraqi-Kurdistan, set up for Syrians escaping the ongoing civil war. The camp, close to the city of Dohuk, now houses in the region of 45,000 refugees, with around 400 new arrivals every day. Photo credit: Matt Cetti-Roberts/LNP
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  • © Licensed to London News Pictures. 12/05/2013. Dohuk, Iraq. Hadia Oso Dawed (40), a Syrian refugee, prepares lunch for her family inside her tent at a refugee camp in Iraqi-Kurdistan, set up for Syrians escaping the ongoing civil war. The camp, close to the city of Dohuk, now houses in the region of 45,000 refugees, with around 400 new arrivals every day. Photo credit: Matt Cetti-Roberts/LNP
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  • © Licensed to London News Pictures. 12/05/2013. Dohuk, Iraq. Hadia Oso Dawed (40), a Syrian refugee, makes lunch for her family inside her tent at a refugee camp in Iraqi-Kurdistan, set up for Syrians escaping the ongoing civil war. The camp, close to the city of Dohuk, now houses in the region of 45,000 refugees, with around 400 new arrivals every day. Photo credit: Matt Cetti-Roberts/LNP
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  • © Licensed to London News Pictures. 12/05/2013. Dohuk, Iraq. Hadia Oso Dawed (40), a Syrian refugee, makes lunch for her family inside her tent at a refugee camp in Iraqi-Kurdistan, set up for Syrians escaping the ongoing civil war. The camp, close to the city of Dohuk, now houses in the region of 45,000 refugees, with around 400 new arrivals every day. Photo credit: Matt Cetti-Roberts/LNP
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  • Licensed to London News Pictures. 10/11/2016. Mosul, Iraq. Iraqi men, holding bags containing their possessions, wait in line as the prepare to board a bus that will evacuate them from Mosul's Gogjali District. The bus, provided by the Iraqi Army, will take them away from the fighting in the city to the safety of a refugee camp in Iraqi-Kurdistan.<br />
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The battle to retake Mosul, which fell June 2014, started on the 16th of October 2016 with Iraqi Security Forces eventually reaching the city on the 1st of November. Since then elements of the Iraq Army and Police have succeeded in pushing into the city and retaking several neighbourhoods allowing civilians living there to be evacuated - though many more remain trapped within Mosul. Photo credit: Matt Cetti-Roberts/LNP
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  • Licensed to London News Pictures. 10/11/2016. Mosul, Iraq. A young Iraqi woman, wearing a niqab looks from a bus window as she and other families, escaping from areas within the city where fighting between Iraqi Security Forces and Islamic State militants is taking place, wait to be evacuated by the Iraqi Army from the city's Gogjali District.<br />
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The battle to retake Mosul, which fell June 2014, started on the 16th of October 2016 with Iraqi Security Forces eventually reaching the city on the 1st of November. Since then elements of the Iraq Army and Police have succeeded in pushing into the city and retaking several neighbourhoods allowing civilians living there to be evacuated - though many more remain trapped within Mosul. Photo credit: Matt Cetti-Roberts/LNP
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  • Licensed to London News Pictures. 10/11/2016. Mosul, Iraq. Guided by an Iraqi Army major women and children, all escaping from areas within Mosul where fighting between Iraqi Security Forces and Islamic State militants are fighting, board a bus in the city's Gogjali District. The bus, provided by the Iraqi Army, will take them to the safety of a refugee camp in Iraqi-Kurdistan.<br />
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The battle to retake Mosul, which fell June 2014, started on the 16th of October 2016 with Iraqi Security Forces eventually reaching the city on the 1st of November. Since then elements of the Iraq Army and Police have succeeded in pushing into the city and retaking several neighbourhoods allowing civilians living there to be evacuated - though many more remain trapped within Mosul. Photo credit: Matt Cetti-Roberts/LNP
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  • 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
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  • 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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  • 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
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  • 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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  • © Licensed to London News Pictures. 01/09/2015. Bashiqa, Iraq. A Kurdish peshmerga fighter keeps watch from a position on top of Bashiqa Mountain near Mosul, Iraq.<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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  • 01/04/2017. Mosul, Iraq. An Iraqi Army Aviation Mi-35 Hind attack helicopter supports Iraqi ground troops by firing rockets at ISIS positions in West Mosul, Iraq.<br />
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Iraqi forces reported today that one of its attack helicopters, supporting the ongoing Mosul Offensive, was shot down by Islamic State militants.
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  • Licensed to London News Pictures. 02/04/2017. Mosul, Iraq. The minaret of the Al-Nuri Mosque, where ISIS leader Abu Bakr Baghdadi declared the group's caliphate in 2014, is seen through the armoured window of an Iraqi Federal Police Humvee in West Mosul, Iraq.<br />
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Iraqi forces continue to fight house to house as they push further into West Mosul. Iraqi forces are now advancing on the city's old districts where Islamic State fighters still hold out. Photo credit: Matt Cetti-Roberts/LNP
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  • Licensed to London News Pictures. 02/04/2017. Mosul, Iraq. The turret of an Iraqi army T-72 tank pokes above a defensive bank in West Mosul, Iraq, close to the current front line between Iraqi Security Forces and the Islamic State.<br />
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Iraqi forces continue to fight house to house as they push further into West Mosul. Iraqi forces are now advancing on the city's old districts where Islamic State fighters still hold out. Photo credit: Matt Cetti-Roberts/LNP
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  • Licensed to London News Pictures. 02/04/2017. Mosul, Iraq. An Iraqi Emergency Response Division mortar team fire an 81mm mortar towards ISIS positions in a nearby part of West Mosul, Iraq today (02/04/2017).<br />
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Iraqi forces continue to fight house to house as they push further into West Mosul. Iraqi forces are now advancing on the city's old districts where Islamic State fighters still hold out. Photo credit: Matt Cetti-Roberts/LNP
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  • Licensed to London News Pictures. 13/02/2017. Mosul, Iraq. A masked officer of Iraq's National Security Service keeps watch as colleagues diffuse the booby trapped former home of an ISIS fighter and his family. The fighter and his family, originally from Tikrit, fled the city during the Mosul offensive leaving behind a home with two victim operated explosive devices kill anyone who tried to enter.<br />
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The Jihaz Al-Amin Al-Watani, roughly translated as the National Security Service or NSS, are a secretive Iraqi agency that works under the responsibility of the Ministry of Interior. Since the liberation of eastern Mosul in January 2017 the NSS have been actively hunting down ISIS members who stayed behind to continue terrorism as part of sleeper cells and residents who worked with the group during its two year occupation. Recruiting from across the country agency is responsible for internal security inside Iraq and has a broad remit to investigate and arrest everything from terrorists and foreign spies to financial criminals and drug traffickers. Photo credit: Matt Cetti-Roberts/LNP
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  • Licensed to London News Pictures. 13/02/2017. Mosul, Iraq. A masked National Security Service officer stands in the back of a pickup truck as his team prepares to leave a base in eastern Mosul to raid the homes of suspected ISIS members in the city.<br />
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The Jihaz Al-Amin Al-Watani, roughly translated as the National Security Service or NSS, are a secretive Iraqi agency that works under the responsibility of the Ministry of Interior. Since the liberation of eastern Mosul in January 2017 the NSS have been actively hunting down ISIS members who stayed behind to continue terrorism as part of sleeper cells and residents who worked with the group during its two year occupation. Recruiting from across the country agency is responsible for internal security inside Iraq and has a broad remit to investigate and arrest everything from terrorists and foreign spies to financial criminals and drug traffickers.<br />
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The Jihaz Al-Amin Al-Watani, roughly translated as the National Security Service or NSS, are a secretive Iraqi agency that works under the responsibility of the Ministry of Interior. Since the liberation of eastern Mosul in January 2017 the NSS have been actively hunting down ISIS members who stayed behind to continue terrorism as part of sleeper cells and residents who worked with the group during its two year occupation. Recruiting from across the country agency is responsible for internal security inside Iraq and has a broad remit to investigate and arrest everything from terrorists and foreign spies to financial criminals and drug traffickers. Photo credit: Matt Cetti-Roberts/LNP
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  • Licensed to London News Pictures. 10/11/2016. Mosul, Iraq. An Iraqi family board a pickup truck, mounting a white flag and loaded down with their possessions, as they prepare to escape Mosul's Gogjali District and fighting between Iraqi Security Forces and ISIS militants for the safety of Iraqi-Kurdistan.<br />
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The battle to retake Mosul, which fell June 2014, started on the 16th of October 2016 with Iraqi Security Forces eventually reaching the city on the 1st of November. Since then elements of the Iraq Army and Police have succeeded in pushing into the city and retaking several neighbourhoods allowing civilians living there to be evacuated - though many more remain trapped within Mosul. Photo credit: Matt Cetti-Roberts/LNP
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  • Licensed to London News Pictures. 10/11/2016. Mosul, Iraq. An Iraqi man looks from a bus window for a friend as he and other families, escaping from areas within the city where fighting between Iraqi Security Forces and Islamic State militants is taking place, wait to be evacuated by the Iraqi Army from the city's Gogjali District.<br />
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The battle to retake Mosul, which fell June 2014, started on the 16th of October 2016 with Iraqi Security Forces eventually reaching the city on the 1st of November. Since then elements of the Iraq Army and Police have succeeded in pushing into the city and retaking several neighbourhoods allowing civilians living there to be evacuated - though many more remain trapped within Mosul. Photo credit: Matt Cetti-Roberts/LNP
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  • Licensed to London News Pictures. 10/11/2016. Mosul, Iraq. Iraqi men, holding bags containing their possessions, wait in line as the prepare to board a bus that will evacuate them from Mosul's Gogjali District. The bus, provided by the Iraqi Army, will take them away from the fighting in the city to the safety of a refugee camp in Iraqi-Kurdistan.<br />
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The battle to retake Mosul, which fell June 2014, started on the 16th of October 2016 with Iraqi Security Forces eventually reaching the city on the 1st of November. Since then elements of the Iraq Army and Police have succeeded in pushing into the city and retaking several neighbourhoods allowing civilians living there to be evacuated - though many more remain trapped within Mosul. Photo credit: Matt Cetti-Roberts/LNP
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  • Licensed to London News Pictures. 10/11/2016. Mosul, Iraq. Iraqi men, holding bags containing their possessions, wait in line as the prepare to board a bus that will evacuate them from Mosul's Gogjali District. The bus, provided by the Iraqi Army, will take them away from the fighting in the city to the safety of a refugee camp in Iraqi-Kurdistan.<br />
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The battle to retake Mosul, which fell June 2014, started on the 16th of October 2016 with Iraqi Security Forces eventually reaching the city on the 1st of November. Since then elements of the Iraq Army and Police have succeeded in pushing into the city and retaking several neighbourhoods allowing civilians living there to be evacuated - though many more remain trapped within Mosul. Photo credit: Matt Cetti-Roberts/LNP
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  • Licensed to London News Pictures. 10/11/2016. Mosul, Iraq. A young girl looks back she and other families, escaping from areas within the city where fighting between Iraqi Security Forces and Islamic State militants is taking place, board a bus in the city's Gogjali District. The bus, provided by the Iraqi Army, will take them to the safety of a refugee camp in Iraqi-Kurdistan.<br />
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The battle to retake Mosul, which fell June 2014, started on the 16th of October 2016 with Iraqi Security Forces eventually reaching the city on the 1st of November. Since then elements of the Iraq Army and Police have succeeded in pushing into the city and retaking several neighbourhoods allowing civilians living there to be evacuated - though many more remain trapped within Mosul. Photo credit: Matt Cetti-Roberts/LNP
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  • Licensed to London News Pictures. 10/11/2016. Mosul, Iraq. Guided by an Iraqi Army major women and children, all escaping from areas within Mosul where fighting between Iraqi Security Forces and Islamic State militants are fighting, board a bus in the city's Gogjali District. The bus, provided by the Iraqi Army, will take them to the safety of a refugee camp in Iraqi-Kurdistan.<br />
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The battle to retake Mosul, which fell June 2014, started on the 16th of October 2016 with Iraqi Security Forces eventually reaching the city on the 1st of November. Since then elements of the Iraq Army and Police have succeeded in pushing into the city and retaking several neighbourhoods allowing civilians living there to be evacuated - though many more remain trapped within Mosul. Photo credit: Matt Cetti-Roberts/LNP
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  • Licensed to London News Pictures. 10/11/2016. Mosul, Iraq. A young girl looks west towards the centre of Mosul as she and other families, escaping from areas within the city where fighting between Iraqi Security Forces and Islamic State militants is taking place, stand in line as they wait to board a bus in the city's Gogjali District. The bus, provided by the Iraqi Army, will take them to the safety of a refugee camp in Iraqi-Kurdistan.<br />
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The battle to retake Mosul, which fell June 2014, started on the 16th of October 2016 with Iraqi Security Forces eventually reaching the city on the 1st of November. Since then elements of the Iraq Army and Police have succeeded in pushing into the city and retaking several neighbourhoods allowing civilians living there to be evacuated - though many more remain trapped within Mosul. Photo credit: Matt Cetti-Roberts/LNP
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  • Licensed to London News Pictures. 10/11/2016. Mosul, Iraq. Women and children, escaping from areas within Mosul where fighting between Iraqi Security Forces and Islamic State militants are fighting, stand in line as they wait to board a bus in the city's Gogjali District. The bus, provided by the Iraqi Army, will take them to the safety of a refugee camp in Iraqi-Kurdistan.<br />
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The battle to retake Mosul, which fell June 2014, started on the 16th of October 2016 with Iraqi Security Forces eventually reaching the city on the 1st of November. Since then elements of the Iraq Army and Police have succeeded in pushing into the city and retaking several neighbourhoods allowing civilians living there to be evacuated - though many more remain trapped within Mosul. Photo credit: Matt Cetti-Roberts/LNP
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  • Licensed to London News Pictures. 10/11/2016. Mosul, Iraq. Women and children, escaping from areas within Mosul where fighting between Iraqi Security Forces and Islamic State militants are fighting, stand in line as they wait to board a bus in the city's Gogjali District. The bus, provided by the Iraqi Army, will take them to the safety of a refugee camp in Iraqi-Kurdistan.<br />
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The battle to retake Mosul, which fell June 2014, started on the 16th of October 2016 with Iraqi Security Forces eventually reaching the city on the 1st of November. Since then elements of the Iraq Army and Police have succeeded in pushing into the city and retaking several neighbourhoods allowing civilians living there to be evacuated - though many more remain trapped within Mosul. Photo credit: Matt Cetti-Roberts/LNP
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  • Licensed to London News Pictures. 10/11/2016. Mosul, Iraq. Guided by an Iraqi Army major women and children, all escaping from areas within Mosul where fighting between Iraqi Security Forces and Islamic State militants are fighting, board a bus in the city's Gogjali District. The bus, provided by the Iraqi Army, will take them to the safety of a refugee camp in Iraqi-Kurdistan.<br />
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The battle to retake Mosul, which fell June 2014, started on the 16th of October 2016 with Iraqi Security Forces eventually reaching the city on the 1st of November. Since then elements of the Iraq Army and Police have succeeded in pushing into the city and retaking several neighbourhoods allowing civilians living there to be evacuated - though many more remain trapped within Mosul. Photo credit: Matt Cetti-Roberts/LNP
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  • Licensed to London News Pictures. 10/11/2016. Mosul, Iraq. Women and children, escaping from areas within Mosul where fighting between Iraqi Security Forces and Islamic State militants are fighting, stand in line as they wait to board a bus in the city's Gogjali District. The bus, provided by the Iraqi Army, will take them to the safety of a refugee camp in Iraqi-Kurdistan.<br />
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The battle to retake Mosul, which fell June 2014, started on the 16th of October 2016 with Iraqi Security Forces eventually reaching the city on the 1st of November. Since then elements of the Iraq Army and Police have succeeded in pushing into the city and retaking several neighbourhoods allowing civilians living there to be evacuated - though many more remain trapped within Mosul. Photo credit: Matt Cetti-Roberts/LNP
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  • Licensed to London News Pictures. 10/11/2016. Mosul, Iraq. Women and children, escaping from areas within Mosul where fighting between Iraqi Security Forces and Islamic State militants are fighting, stand in line as they wait to board a bus in the city's Gogjali District. The bus, provided by the Iraqi Army, will take them to the safety of a refugee camp in Iraqi-Kurdistan.<br />
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The battle to retake Mosul, which fell June 2014, started on the 16th of October 2016 with Iraqi Security Forces eventually reaching the city on the 1st of November. Since then elements of the Iraq Army and Police have succeeded in pushing into the city and retaking several neighbourhoods allowing civilians living there to be evacuated - though many more remain trapped within Mosul. Photo credit: Matt Cetti-Roberts/LNP
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  • Licensed to London News Pictures. 10/11/2016. Mosul, Iraq. Women and children, escaping from areas within Mosul where fighting between Iraqi Security Forces and Islamic State militants are fighting, stand in line as they wait to board a bus in the city's Gogjali District. The bus, provided by the Iraqi Army, will take them to the safety of a refugee camp in Iraqi-Kurdistan.<br />
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The battle to retake Mosul, which fell June 2014, started on the 16th of October 2016 with Iraqi Security Forces eventually reaching the city on the 1st of November. Since then elements of the Iraq Army and Police have succeeded in pushing into the city and retaking several neighbourhoods allowing civilians living there to be evacuated - though many more remain trapped within Mosul. Photo credit: Matt Cetti-Roberts/LNP
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  • Licensed to London News Pictures. 10/11/2016. Mosul, Iraq. Women and children, escaping from areas within Mosul where fighting between Iraqi Security Forces and Islamic State militants are fighting, sit together as they wait to board a bus in the city's Gogjali District. The bus, provided by the Iraqi Army, will take them to the safety of a refugee camp in Iraqi-Kurdistan.<br />
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The battle to retake Mosul, which fell June 2014, started on the 16th of October 2016 with Iraqi Security Forces eventually reaching the city on the 1st of November. Since then elements of the Iraq Army and Police have succeeded in pushing into the city and retaking several neighbourhoods allowing civilians living there to be evacuated - though many more remain trapped within Mosul. Photo credit: Matt Cetti-Roberts/LNP
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  • Licensed to London News Pictures. 10/11/2016. Mosul, Iraq. Women and children, escaping from areas within Mosul where fighting between Iraqi Security Forces and Islamic State militants are fighting, sit together as they wait to board a bus in the city's Gogjali District. The bus, provided by the Iraqi Army, will take them to the safety of a refugee camp in Iraqi-Kurdistan.<br />
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The battle to retake Mosul, which fell June 2014, started on the 16th of October 2016 with Iraqi Security Forces eventually reaching the city on the 1st of November. Since then elements of the Iraq Army and Police have succeeded in pushing into the city and retaking several neighbourhoods allowing civilians living there to be evacuated - though many more remain trapped within Mosul. Photo credit: Matt Cetti-Roberts/LNP
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  • Licensed to London News Pictures. 10/11/2016. Mosul, Iraq. Women and children, escaping from areas within Mosul where fighting between Iraqi Security Forces and Islamic State militants are fighting, sit together as they wait to board a bus in the city's Gogjali District. The bus, provided by the Iraqi Army, will take them to the safety of a refugee camp in Iraqi-Kurdistan.<br />
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The battle to retake Mosul, which fell June 2014, started on the 16th of October 2016 with Iraqi Security Forces eventually reaching the city on the 1st of November. Since then elements of the Iraq Army and Police have succeeded in pushing into the city and retaking several neighbourhoods allowing civilians living there to be evacuated - though many more remain trapped within Mosul. Photo credit: Matt Cetti-Roberts/LNP
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  • Licensed to London News Pictures. 10/11/2016. Mosul, Iraq. Women and children, escaping from areas within Mosul where fighting between Iraqi Security Forces and Islamic State militants are fighting, sit as they wait to board a bus in the city's Gogjali District. The bus, provided by the Iraqi Army, will take them to the safety of a refugee camp in Iraqi-Kurdistan.<br />
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The battle to retake Mosul, which fell June 2014, started on the 16th of October 2016 with Iraqi Security Forces eventually reaching the city on the 1st of November. Since then elements of the Iraq Army and Police have succeeded in pushing into the city and retaking several neighbourhoods allowing civilians living there to be evacuated - though many more remain trapped within Mosul. Photo credit: Matt Cetti-Roberts/LNP
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  • Licensed to London News Pictures. 10/11/2016. Mosul, Iraq. Residents of Mosul's Gogjali District fly a white flag from their truck to show they pose no threat to Iraqi Security Forces operating nearby.<br />
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The battle to retake Mosul, which fell June 2014, started on the 16th of October 2016 with Iraqi Security Forces eventually reaching the city on the 1st of November. Since then elements of the Iraq Army and Police have succeeded in pushing into the city and retaking several neighbourhoods allowing civilians living there to be evacuated - though many more remain trapped within Mosul. Photo credit: Matt Cetti-Roberts/LNP
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  • Licensed to London News Pictures. 10/11/2016. Mosul, Iraq. An Iraqi SWAT Police talks to a local resident who needs medicatioon from a position in the cities Gogjali District.<br />
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The battle to retake Mosul, which fell June 2014, started on the 16th of October 2016 with Iraqi Security Forces eventually reaching the city on the 1st of November. Since then elements of the Iraq Army and Police have succeeded in pushing into the city and retaking several neighbourhoods allowing civilians living there to be evacuated - though many more remain trapped within Mosul. Photo credit: Matt Cetti-Roberts/LNP
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  • Licensed to London News Pictures. 10/11/2016. Mosul, Iraq. An Iraqi SWAT Police officer aims his PKM machine gun towards Islamic State held Mosul, some 700 metres away, from a position in the cities Gogjali District.<br />
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The battle to retake Mosul, which fell June 2014, started on the 16th of October 2016 with Iraqi Security Forces eventually reaching the city on the 1st of November. Since then elements of the Iraq Army and Police have succeeded in pushing into the city and retaking several neighbourhoods allowing civilians living there to be evacuated - though many more remain trapped within Mosul. Photo credit: Matt Cetti-Roberts/LNP
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  • Licensed to London News Pictures. 08/11/2016. Qayyarah, Iraq. Smoke from burning oil facilities inside and around the town of Qayyarah, Iraq, fills the sky over the highway between the town and Erbil, the Kurdish capital. 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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  • 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
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  • 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
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  • 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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  • 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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  • Licensed to London News Pictures. 08/11/2016. Qayyarah, Iraq. A burning oil valve is seen beyond soot blackened houses, which are currently inhabited, under a smoke filled sky 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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  • Licensed to London News Pictures. 08/11/2016. Qayyarah, Iraq. Machinery, apparently being used to try and extinguish burning oil facilities, is seen 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
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