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  • © Licensed to London News Pictures. 02/09/2015. Bashiqa, Iraq. A Kurdish peshmerga officer stands in the early morning sunlight at a defensive position located on the top of Bashiqa Mountain, 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 Kurdish peshmerga, having withdrawn to the mountain after the August 2014 ISIS offensive, now watch over Islamic State held territory from their sandbagged high-ground positions.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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  • © Licensed to London News Pictures. 02/09/2015. Bashiqa, Iraq. A sandbagged Kurdish peshmerga defensive position on Bashiqa Mountain, 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 Kurdish peshmerga, having withdrawn to the mountain after the August 2014 ISIS offensive, now watch over Islamic State held territory from their sandbagged high-ground positions.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
    LNP_BASHIQA_19_MCR.JPG
  • © Licensed to London News Pictures. 02/09/2015. Bashiqa, Iraq. As day breaks a Kurdish peshmerga fighter mans a sandbagged defensive position on Bashiqa Mountain, 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
    LNP_BASHIQA_17_MCR.JPG
  • © Licensed to London News Pictures. 01/09/2015. Bashiqa, Iraq. A Kurdish peshmerga fighter takes advantage of a cool breeze by sleeping under the stars behind his unit's defensive position on Bashiqa Mountain, 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
    LNP_BASHIQA_15_MCR.JPG
  • © 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
    LNP_BASHIQA_16_MCR.JPG
  • © 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
    LNP_BASHIQA_12_MCR.JPG
  • © Licensed to London News Pictures. 01/09/2015. Bashiqa, Iraq. A sandbagged bunker, used an Iranian Kurdish peshmerga group called PAK, is seen on the summit of Bashiqa Mountain, Iraq, where the group man defensive position alongside their Iraqi-Kurdish counterparts.<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
    LNP_BASHIQA_14_MCR.JPG
  • © Licensed to London News Pictures. o01/09/2015. Bashiqa, Iraq. A fighter belonging to Iranian Kurdish peshmerga from PAK fires a 60mm mortar from defensive emplacements on the summit of Bashiqa Mountain at ISIS locations within the town of the same name.<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
    LNP_BASHIQA_13_MCR.JPG
  • © Licensed to London News Pictures. 01/09/2015. Bashiqa, Iraq. A Kurdish peshmerga fighter fires a DShK heavy machine gun at ISIS vehicles moving near his unit's defensive position on Bashiqa Mountain, 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
    LNP_BASHIQA_11_MCR.JPG
  • © Licensed to London News Pictures. 01/09/2015. Bashiqa, Iraq. Lights coming from Islamic State held Mosul, Iraq's second largest city, are seen from Kurdish peshmerga defensive positions on Bashiqa Mountain.<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
    LNP_BASHIQA_10_MCR.JPG
  • © Licensed to London News Pictures. 01/09/2015. Bashiqa, Iraq. Islamic State held territory, including Mosul, Iraq's second largest city, is seen from Kurdish peshmerga defensive positions on Bashiqa Mountain.<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
    LNP_BASHIQA_09_MCR.JPG
  • © 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
    LNP_BASHIQA_08_MCR.JPG
  • © Licensed to London News Pictures. 01/09/2015. Bashiqa, Iraq. Kurdish peshmerga chat between guard shifts inside their accommodation on the top of the 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
    LNP_BASHIQA_04_MCR.JPG
  • © Licensed to London News Pictures. 01/09/2015. Bashiqa, Iraq. Kurdish peshmerga chat between guard shifts at a defensive positon on the 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
    LNP_BASHIQA_07_MCR.JPG
  • © Licensed to London News Pictures. 01/09/2015. Bashiqa, Iraq. Kurdish peshmerga chat between guard shifts at a defensive positon on the 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
    LNP_BASHIQA_06_MCR.JPG
  • © Licensed to London News Pictures. 01/09/2015. Bashiqa, Iraq. Personal effects of Kurdish peshmerga fighters inside their accommodation on the top of the 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
    LNP_BASHIQA_05_MCR.JPG
  • © Licensed to London News Pictures. 01/09/2015. Bashiqa, Iraq. A Kurdish peshmerga fighter cleans an M84 general purpose machine gun during downtime at a peshmerga position on Bashiqa Mountain near Mosul.<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
    LNP_BASHIQA_03_MCR.JPG
  • © 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
    LNP_BASHIQA_02_MCR.JPG
  • © Licensed to London News Pictures. 01/09/2015. Bashiqa, Iraq. A Kurdish peshmerga fighter uses his mobile phone as he 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
    LNP_BASHIQA_01_MCR.JPG
  • © Licensed to London News Pictures. 28/09/2014. Rabia, Iraq. A sandstorm moves in to hamper visibility at the Iraq-Syria border crossing towns of Al-Yarubiyah, Syria, and Rabia, Iraq.<br />
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Facing each other across the Iraq-Syria border, the towns of Al-Yarubiyah, Syria, and Rabia, Iraq, were taken by Islamic State insurgents in August 2014. Since then The town of Al-Yarubiyah and parts of Rabia have been re-taken by fighters from the Syrian Kurdish YPG. At present the situation in the towns is static, but with large exchanges of sniper and heavy machine gun fire as well as mortars and rocket propelled grenades, recently occasional close quarter fighting has taken place as either side tests the defences of the other. Photo credit: Matt Cetti-Roberts/LNP
    LNP_RABIA_27_MCR.JPG
  • © Licensed to London News Pictures. 28/09/2014. Rabia, Iraq. A fighter belonging to the Syrian-Kurdish YPG changes position as Islamic State insurgents fire at YPG positions in the Iraqi border town of Rabia.<br />
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Facing each other across the Iraq-Syria border, the towns of Al-Yarubiyah, Syria, and Rabia, Iraq, were taken by Islamic State insurgents in August 2014. Since then The town of Al-Yarubiyah and parts of Rabia have been re-taken by fighters from the Syrian Kurdish YPG. At present the situation in the towns is static, but with large exchanges of sniper and heavy machine gun fire as well as mortars and rocket propelled grenades, recently occasional close quarter fighting has taken place as either side tests the defences of the other. Photo credit: Matt Cetti-Roberts/LNP
    LNP_RABIA_26_MCR.JPG
  • © Licensed to London News Pictures. 28/09/2014. Rabia, Iraq.<br />
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Facing each other across the Iraq-Syria border, the towns of Al-Yarubiyah, Syria, and Rabia, Iraq, were taken by Islamic State insurgents in August 2014. Since then The town of Al-Yarubiyah and parts of Rabia have been re-taken by fighters from the Syrian Kurdish YPG. At present the situation in the towns is static, but with large exchanges of sniper and heavy machine gun fire as well as mortars and rocket propelled grenades, recently occasional close quarter fighting has taken place as either side tests the defences of the other. Photo credit: Matt Cetti-Roberts/LNP
    LNP_RABIA_25_MCR.JPG
  • © Licensed to London News Pictures. 28/09/2014. Rabia, Iraq. A fighter belonging to the Syrian-Kurdish YPG descends from a rooftop in the Iraqi border town of Rabia.<br />
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Facing each other across the Iraq-Syria border, the towns of Al-Yarubiyah, Syria, and Rabia, Iraq, were taken by Islamic State insurgents in August 2014. Since then The town of Al-Yarubiyah and parts of Rabia have been re-taken by fighters from the Syrian Kurdish YPG. At present the situation in the towns is static, but with large exchanges of sniper and heavy machine gun fire as well as mortars and rocket propelled grenades, recently occasional close quarter fighting has taken place as either side tests the defences of the other. Photo credit: Matt Cetti-Roberts/LNP
    LNP_RABIA_23_MCR.JPG
  • © Licensed to London News Pictures. 28/09/2014. Rabia, Iraq. A female sniper belonging to the Syrian-Kurdish YPJ observes after a colleague shot at a possible Islamic State sniper changing position in the Iraqi border town of Rabia.<br />
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Facing each other across the Iraq-Syria border, the towns of Al-Yarubiyah, Syria, and Rabia, Iraq, were taken by Islamic State insurgents in August 2014. Since then The town of Al-Yarubiyah and parts of Rabia have been re-taken by fighters from the Syrian Kurdish YPG. At present the situation in the towns is static, but with large exchanges of sniper and heavy machine gun fire as well as mortars and rocket propelled grenades, recently occasional close quarter fighting has taken place as either side tests the defences of the other. Photo credit: Matt Cetti-Roberts/LNP
    LNP_RABIA_22_MCR.JPG
  • © Licensed to London News Pictures. 28/09/2014. Rabia, Iraq. A female sniper belonging to the Syrian-Kurdish YPJ takes aim at what she thinks may be an Islamic State sniper changing position in the Iraqi border town of Rabia.<br />
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Facing each other across the Iraq-Syria border, the towns of Al-Yarubiyah, Syria, and Rabia, Iraq, were taken by Islamic State insurgents in August 2014. Since then The town of Al-Yarubiyah and parts of Rabia have been re-taken by fighters from the Syrian Kurdish YPG. At present the situation in the towns is static, but with large exchanges of sniper and heavy machine gun fire as well as mortars and rocket propelled grenades, recently occasional close quarter fighting has taken place as either side tests the defences of the other. Photo credit: Matt Cetti-Roberts/LNP
    LNP_RABIA_21_MCR.JPG
  • © Licensed to London News Pictures. 28/09/2014. Rabia, Iraq. A fighter belonging to the Syrian-Kurdish YPG scans Islamic State territory after several bursts of machine gun fire targeted YPG positions in the Iraqi border town of Rabia.<br />
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Facing each other across the Iraq-Syria border, the towns of Al-Yarubiyah, Syria, and Rabia, Iraq, were taken by Islamic State insurgents in August 2014. Since then The town of Al-Yarubiyah and parts of Rabia have been re-taken by fighters from the Syrian Kurdish YPG. At present the situation in the towns is static, but with large exchanges of sniper and heavy machine gun fire as well as mortars and rocket propelled grenades, recently occasional close quarter fighting has taken place as either side tests the defences of the other. Photo credit: Matt Cetti-Roberts/LNP
    LNP_RABIA_19_MCR.JPG
  • © Licensed to London News Pictures. 28/09/2014. Rabia, Iraq. A fighter belonging to the Syrian-Kurdish YPG works next to a 23mm heavy machine gun at a YPG position in the Iraqi border town of Rabia.<br />
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Facing each other across the Iraq-Syria border, the towns of Al-Yarubiyah, Syria, and Rabia, Iraq, were taken by Islamic State insurgents in August 2014. Since then The town of Al-Yarubiyah and parts of Rabia have been re-taken by fighters from the Syrian Kurdish YPG. At present the situation in the towns is static, but with large exchanges of sniper and heavy machine gun fire as well as mortars and rocket propelled grenades, recently occasional close quarter fighting has taken place as either side tests the defences of the other. Photo credit: Matt Cetti-Roberts/LNP
    LNP_RABIA_18_MCR.JPG
  • © Licensed to London News Pictures. 28/09/2014. Rabia, Iraq. Two female fighters belonging to the Syrian-Kurdish YPJ are seen on a roof top position in the Iraqi border town of Rabia.<br />
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Facing each other across the Iraq-Syria border, the towns of Al-Yarubiyah, Syria, and Rabia, Iraq, were taken by Islamic State insurgents in August 2014. Since then The town of Al-Yarubiyah and parts of Rabia have been re-taken by fighters from the Syrian Kurdish YPG. At present the situation in the towns is static, but with large exchanges of sniper and heavy machine gun fire as well as mortars and rocket propelled grenades, recently occasional close quarter fighting has taken place as either side tests the defences of the other. Photo credit: Matt Cetti-Roberts/LNP
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  • © Licensed to London News Pictures. 28/09/2014. Rabia, Iraq. Spent  cases from heavy machine guns are seen at a position used by fighters from the Syrian-Kurdish YPG as they fight with Islamic State insurgents in the town of Rabia, Iraq.<br />
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Facing each other across the Iraq-Syria border, the towns of Al-Yarubiyah, Syria, and Rabia, Iraq, were taken by Islamic State insurgents in August 2014. Since then The town of Al-Yarubiyah and parts of Rabia have been re-taken by fighters from the Syrian Kurdish YPG. At present the situation in the towns is static, but with large exchanges of sniper and heavy machine gun fire as well as mortars and rocket propelled grenades, recently occasional close quarter fighting has taken place as either side tests the defences of the other. Photo credit: Matt Cetti-Roberts/LNP
    LNP_RABIA_11_MCR.JPG
  • © Licensed to London News Pictures. 28/09/2014. Rabia, Syria.28/09/2014. Rabia, Iraq.<br />
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Facing each other across the Iraq-Syria border, the towns of Al-Yarubiyah, Syria, and Rabia, Iraq, were taken by Islamic State insurgents in August 2014. Since then The town of Al-Yarubiyah and parts of Rabia have been re-taken by fighters from the Syrian Kurdish YPG. At present the situation in the towns is static, but with large exchanges of sniper and heavy machine gun fire as well as mortars and rocket propelled grenades, recently occasional close quarter fighting has taken place as either side tests the defences of the other. Photo credit: Matt Cetti-Roberts/LNP
    LNP_RABIA_12_MCR.JPG
  • © Licensed to London News Pictures. 28/09/2014. Al-Yarubiyah, Syria. A tower, used as an observation post by Syrian-Kurdish YPG forces, shows damage caused by Islamic State tanks, Al-Yarubiyah, Syria.<br />
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Facing each other across the Iraq-Syria border, the towns of Al-Yarubiyah, Syria, and Rabia, Iraq, were taken by Islamic State insurgents in August 2014. Since then The town of Al-Yarubiyah and parts of Rabia have been re-taken by fighters from the Syrian Kurdish YPG. At present the situation in the towns is static, but with large exchanges of sniper and heavy machine gun fire as well as mortars and rocket propelled grenades, recently occasional close quarter fighting has taken place as either side tests the defences of the other. Photo credit: Matt Cetti-Roberts/LNP
    LNP_RABIA_09_MCR.JPG
  • © Licensed to London News Pictures. 28/09/2014. Al-Yarubiyah, Syria. Using a home made 14.5mm rifle, a sniper belonging to Syrian Kurdish YPG forces in Al-Yarubiyah, Syria, aims at Islamic State positions across the border in Rabia, Iraq.<br />
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Facing each other across the Iraq-Syria border, the towns of Al-Yarubiyah, Syria, and Rabia, Iraq, were taken by Islamic State insurgents in August 2014. Since then The town of Al-Yarubiyah and parts of Rabia have been re-taken by fighters from the Syrian Kurdish YPG. At present the situation in the towns is static, but with large exchanges of sniper and heavy machine gun fire as well as mortars and rocket propelled grenades, recently occasional close quarter fighting has taken place as either side tests the defences of the other. Photo credit: Matt Cetti-Roberts/LNP
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  • © Licensed to London News Pictures. 28/09/2014. Al-Yarubiyah, Syria. Pock marked by bullets, a sign thanking people for visiting Syria's Hasakah Governate is seen on the outskirts of the Syrian border town of Al-Yarubiyah.<br />
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Facing each other across the Iraq-Syria border, the towns of Al-Yarubiyah, Syria, and Rabia, Iraq, were taken by Islamic State insurgents in August 2014. Since then The town of Al-Yarubiyah and parts of Rabia have been re-taken by fighters from the Syrian Kurdish YPG. At present the situation in the towns is static, but with large exchanges of sniper and heavy machine gun fire as well as mortars and rocket propelled grenades, recently occasional close quarter fighting has taken place as either side tests the defences of the other. Photo credit: Matt Cetti-Roberts/LNP
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  • © Licensed to London News Pictures. 28/09/2014. Al-Yarubiyah, Syria. A home made 12.7mm sniper rifle (.50 caliber), fabricated by Syrian-Kurdish YPG fighters, is seen near a firing position in use against ISIS insurgents in Rabia, Syria.<br />
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Facing each other across the Iraq-Syria border, the towns of Al-Yarubiyah, Syria, and Rabia, Iraq, were taken by Islamic State insurgents in August 2014. Since then The town of Al-Yarubiyah and parts of Rabia have been re-taken by fighters from the Syrian Kurdish YPG. At present the situation in the towns is static, but with large exchanges of sniper and heavy machine gun fire as well as mortars and rocket propelled grenades, recently occasional close quarter fighting has taken place as either side tests the defences of the other. Photo credit: Matt Cetti-Roberts/LNP
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  • © Licensed to London News Pictures. 28/09/2014. Rabia, Iraq. A female fighter belonging to the Syrian-Kurdish YPJ scans Islamic State territory from a YPG position in the Iraqi border town of Rabia.<br />
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Facing each other across the Iraq-Syria border, the towns of Al-Yarubiyah, Syria, and Rabia, Iraq, were taken by Islamic State insurgents in August 2014. Since then The town of Al-Yarubiyah and parts of Rabia have been re-taken by fighters from the Syrian Kurdish YPG. At present the situation in the towns is static, but with large exchanges of sniper and heavy machine gun fire as well as mortars and rocket propelled grenades, recently occasional close quarter fighting has taken place as either side tests the defences of the other. Photo credit: Matt Cetti-Roberts/LNP
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  • © Licensed to London News Pictures. 28/09/2014. Al-Yarubiyah, Syria. Using a home made 14.5mm rifle, a sniper belonging to Syrian Kurdish YPG forces in Al-Yarubiyah, Syria, fires at Islamic State positions across the border in Rabia, Iraq.<br />
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Facing each other across the Iraq-Syria border, the towns of Al-Yarubiyah, Syria, and Rabia, Iraq, were taken by Islamic State insurgents in August 2014. Since then The town of Al-Yarubiyah and parts of Rabia have been re-taken by fighters from the Syrian Kurdish YPG. At present the situation in the towns is static, but with large exchanges of sniper and heavy machine gun fire as well as mortars and rocket propelled grenades, recently occasional close quarter fighting has taken place as either side tests the defences of the other. Photo credit: Matt Cetti-Roberts/LNP
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  • © Licensed to London News Pictures. 28/09/2014. Rabia, Iraq. A fighter belonging to the Syrian-Kurdish YPG mans a heavy machine gun mounted on a pickup truck, both captured from Islamic State insurgents, as he waits for an order to fire at enemy positions in the Iraqi border town of Rabia.<br />
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Facing each other across the Iraq-Syria border, the towns of Al-Yarubiyah, Syria, and Rabia, Iraq, were taken by Islamic State insurgents in August 2014. Since then The town of Al-Yarubiyah and parts of Rabia have been re-taken by fighters from the Syrian Kurdish YPG. At present the situation in the towns is static, but with large exchanges of sniper and heavy machine gun fire as well as mortars and rocket propelled grenades, recently occasional close quarter fighting has taken place as either side tests the defences of the other. Photo credit: Matt Cetti-Roberts/LNP
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  • © Licensed to London News Pictures. 28/09/2014. Rabia, Iraq. A view of ground held by Islamic State insurgents is seen from a Syrian-Kurdish position in the Iraqi border town of Rabia.<br />
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Facing each other across the Iraq-Syria border, the towns of Al-Yarubiyah, Syria, and Rabia, Iraq, were taken by Islamic State insurgents in August 2014. Since then The town of Al-Yarubiyah and parts of Rabia have been re-taken by fighters from the Syrian Kurdish YPG. At present the situation in the towns is static, but with large exchanges of sniper and heavy machine gun fire as well as mortars and rocket propelled grenades, recently occasional close quarter fighting has taken place as either side tests the defences of the other. Photo credit: Matt Cetti-Roberts/LNP
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  • © Licensed to London News Pictures. 28/09/2014. Rabia, Syria.28/09/2014. Rabia, Iraq.<br />
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Facing each other across the Iraq-Syria border, the towns of Al-Yarubiyah, Syria, and Rabia, Iraq, were taken by Islamic State insurgents in August 2014. Since then The town of Al-Yarubiyah and parts of Rabia have been re-taken by fighters from the Syrian Kurdish YPG. At present the situation in the towns is static, but with large exchanges of sniper and heavy machine gun fire as well as mortars and rocket propelled grenades, recently occasional close quarter fighting has taken place as either side tests the defences of the other. Photo credit: Matt Cetti-Roberts/LNP
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  • © Licensed to London News Pictures. 28/09/2014. Rabia, Iraq. A fighter belonging to the Syrian-Kurdish YPJ walks back to her base at YPG positions in the Iraqi border town of Rabia.<br />
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Facing each other across the Iraq-Syria border, the towns of Al-Yarubiyah, Syria, and Rabia, Iraq, were taken by Islamic State insurgents in August 2014. Since then The town of Al-Yarubiyah and parts of Rabia have been re-taken by fighters from the Syrian Kurdish YPG. At present the situation in the towns is static, but with large exchanges of sniper and heavy machine gun fire as well as mortars and rocket propelled grenades, recently occasional close quarter fighting has taken place as either side tests the defences of the other. Photo credit: Matt Cetti-Roberts/LNP
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  • © Licensed to London News Pictures. 28/09/2014. Rabia, Iraq. Fighters belonging to the Syrian-Kurdish YPG observe Islamic State territory from a YPG position in the Iraqi border town of Rabia.<br />
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Facing each other across the Iraq-Syria border, the towns of Al-Yarubiyah, Syria, and Rabia, Iraq, were taken by Islamic State insurgents in August 2014. Since then The town of Al-Yarubiyah and parts of Rabia have been re-taken by fighters from the Syrian Kurdish YPG. At present the situation in the towns is static, but with large exchanges of sniper and heavy machine gun fire as well as mortars and rocket propelled grenades, recently occasional close quarter fighting has taken place as either side tests the defences of the other. Photo credit: Matt Cetti-Roberts/LNP
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  • © Licensed to London News Pictures. 28/09/2014. Rabia, Iraq.<br />
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Facing each other across the Iraq-Syria border, the towns of Al-Yarubiyah, Syria, and Rabia, Iraq, were taken by Islamic State insurgents in August 2014. Since then The town of Al-Yarubiyah and parts of Rabia have been re-taken by fighters from the Syrian Kurdish YPG. At present the situation in the towns is static, but with large exchanges of sniper and heavy machine gun fire as well as mortars and rocket propelled grenades, recently occasional close quarter fighting has taken place as either side tests the defences of the other. Photo credit: Matt Cetti-Roberts/LNP
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  • © Licensed to London News Pictures. 28/09/2014. Al-Yarubiyah, Syria. A Chinese made Kalashnikov and American M4 rifle lean against a wall in a building occupied by Syrian Kurdish YPG fighters in Al-Yarubiyah, Syria.<br />
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Facing each other across the Iraq-Syria border, the towns of Al-Yarubiyah, Syria, and Rabia, Iraq, were taken by Islamic State insurgents in August 2014. Since then The town of Al-Yarubiyah and parts of Rabia have been re-taken by fighters from the Syrian Kurdish YPG. At present the situation in the towns is static, but with large exchanges of sniper and heavy machine gun fire as well as mortars and rocket propelled grenades, recently occasional close quarter fighting has taken place as either side tests the defences of the other. Photo credit: Matt Cetti-Roberts/LNP
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  • © Licensed to London News Pictures. 28/09/2014. Al-Yarubiyah, Syria. 12.7mm (.50 caliber) rounds, lie on the floor of a building in Al-Yarubiyah, Syria, as they wait to be used by Syrian-Kurdish YPG snipers firing at positions held by Islamic State insurgents in Rabia, Iraq.<br />
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Facing each other across the Iraq-Syria border, the towns of Al-Yarubiyah, Syria, and Rabia, Iraq, were taken by Islamic State insurgents in August 2014. Since then The town of Al-Yarubiyah and parts of Rabia have been re-taken by fighters from the Syrian Kurdish YPG. At present the situation in the towns is static, but with large exchanges of sniper and heavy machine gun fire as well as mortars and rocket propelled grenades, recently occasional close quarter fighting has taken place as either side tests the defences of the other. Photo credit: Matt Cetti-Roberts/LNP
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  • © Licensed to London News Pictures. 28/09/2014. Al-Yarubiyah, Syria. A Syrian-Kurdish YPG fighter watches television in the Syrian town of Al-Yarubiyah.<br />
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Facing each other across the Iraq-Syria border, the towns of Al-Yarubiyah, Syria, and Rabia, Iraq, were taken by Islamic State insurgents in August 2014. Since then The town of Al-Yarubiyah and parts of Rabia have been re-taken by fighters from the Syrian Kurdish YPG. At present the situation in the towns is static, but with large exchanges of sniper and heavy machine gun fire as well as mortars and rocket propelled grenades, recently occasional close quarter fighting has taken place as either side tests the defences of the other. Photo credit: Matt Cetti-Roberts/LNP
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  • © Licensed to London News Pictures. 28/09/2014. Rabia, Iraq. Two fighters belonging to the Syrian-Kurdish YPG react to incoming fire from Islamic State insurgents, as they wait for an order to return fire in the Iraqi border town of Rabia.<br />
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Facing each other across the Iraq-Syria border, the towns of Al-Yarubiyah, Syria, and Rabia, Iraq, were taken by Islamic State insurgents in August 2014. Since then The town of Al-Yarubiyah and parts of Rabia have been re-taken by fighters from the Syrian Kurdish YPG. At present the situation in the towns is static, but with large exchanges of sniper and heavy machine gun fire as well as mortars and rocket propelled grenades, recently occasional close quarter fighting has taken place as either side tests the defences of the other. Photo credit: Matt Cetti-Roberts/LNP
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  • © Licensed to London News Pictures. 28/06/2012. LONDON, UK. The front of the Greenwich Peninsula Emirates Air-Line terminal is seen in East London today (28/06/12) at the launch of London's first cable car system. The new cable car system, running across the River Thames between the Greenwich Peninsula and the Royal Docks in East London, was today opened to the public, despite fears that it would not be ready in time for the London 2012 Olympics. Photo credit: Matt Cetti-Roberts/LNP
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  • © Licensed to London News Pictures. 28/06/2012. LONDON, UK. The front of the Greenwich Peninsula Emirates Air-Line terminal is seen in East London today (28/06/12) at the launch of London's first cable car system. The new cable car system, running across the River Thames between the Greenwich Peninsula and the Royal Docks in East London, was today opened to the public, despite fears that it would not be ready in time for the London 2012 Olympics. Photo credit: Matt Cetti-Roberts/LNP
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  • © Licensed to London News Pictures. 29/04/2017. London, UK. Met Police officer Tom Harrison, 41, known as "Mr Gorilla", celebrates in The Mall, in front of Buckingham Palace, after finally completing the London Marathon after six days of crawling and raising £23,900 for The Gorilla Organisation.   Photo credit : Stephen Chung/LNP
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  • © Licensed to London News Pictures. 29/04/2017. London, UK. Met Police officer Tom Harrison, 41, known as "Mr Gorilla", celebrates in The Mall, in front of Buckingham Palace, after finally completing the London Marathon after six days of crawling and raising £23,900 for The Gorilla Organisation.   Photo credit : Stephen Chung/LNP
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  • © Licensed to London News Pictures. 29/04/2017. London, UK. Met Police officer Tom Harrison, 41, known as "Mr Gorilla", celebrates in The Mall, in front of Buckingham Palace, after finally completing the London Marathon after six days of crawling and raising £23,900 for The Gorilla Organisation.   Photo credit : Stephen Chung/LNP
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  • © licensed to London News Pictures. London, UK 13/03/2012. Mayor of London, Boris Johnson is posing in front of Crossrail tunnel boring machines as machines started to work for the first time in Westbourne Park this morning. Photo credit: Tolga Akmen/LNP
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  • © licensed to London News Pictures. London, UK 13/03/2012. Mayor of London, Boris Johnson is posing in front of Crossrail tunnel boring machines as machines started to work for the first time in Westbourne Park this morning. Photo credit: Tolga Akmen/LNP
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  • © licensed to London News Pictures. London, UK 13/03/2012. Mayor of London, Boris Johnson and Transport Secretary Justine Greening is posing in front of Crossrail tunnel boring machines as machines started to work for the first time in Westbourne Park this morning. Photo credit: Tolga Akmen/LNP
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  • © Licensed to London News Pictures. 06/05/2020. London, UK. Staff at Gladesmore Community School in Tottenham, north London make face shields which comply with the Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) standards for NHS staff and front line key workers, using technology equipment and a laser cutter. Over a thousand face screens have been delivered to local care homes in Tottenham and to Newham © Licensed to London News Pictures. 06/05/2020. London, UK. A member of staff at Gladesmore Community School in Tottenham, north London wears a face shield, which the school has been making for NHS staff and front line key workers, using technology equipment and a laser cutter. Over a thousand face screens have been delivered to local care homes in Tottenham and to Newham University Hospital. There is a shortage of PPE during the COVID-19 pandemic, many schools and clothing manufacturers producing equipment for the NHS and front line key workers. Photo credit: Dinendra Haria/LNP Hospital. There is a shortage of PPE during the COVID-19 pandemic, many schools and clothing manufacturers producing equipment for the NHS and front line key workers. Photo credit: Dinendra Haria/LNP
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  • © Licensed to London News Pictures. 06/05/2020. London, UK. A member of staff at Gladesmore Community School in Tottenham, north London wears a face shield, which the school has been making for NHS staff and front line key workers, using technology equipment and a laser cutter. Over a thousand face screens have been delivered to local care homes in Tottenham and to Newham University Hospital. There is a shortage of PPE during the COVID-19 pandemic, many schools and clothing manufacturers producing equipment for the NHS and front line key workers. Photo credit: Dinendra Haria/LNP
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  • © Licensed to London News Pictures. 06/05/2020. London, UK. A member of staff at Gladesmore Community School in Tottenham, north London wears a face shield, which the school has been making for NHS staff and front line key workers, using technology equipment and a laser cutter. Over a thousand face screens have been delivered to local care homes in Tottenham and to Newham University Hospital. There is a shortage of PPE during the COVID-19 pandemic, many schools and clothing manufacturers producing equipment for the NHS and front line key workers. Photo credit: Dinendra Haria/LNP
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  • © Licensed to London News Pictures. 06/05/2020. London, UK. A member of staff at Gladesmore Community School in Tottenham, north London makes face shield which comply with the Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) standards for NHS staff and front line key workers, using technology equipment and a laser cutter. Over a thousand face screens have been delivered to local care homes in Tottenham and to Newham University Hospital. There is a shortage of PPE during the COVID-19 pandemic, many schools and clothing manufacturers producing equipment for the NHS and front line key workers. Photo credit: Dinendra Haria/LNP
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  • © Licensed to London News Pictures. 06/05/2020. London, UK. A member of staff at Gladesmore Community School in Tottenham, north London makes face shield which comply with the Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) standards for NHS staff and front line key workers, using technology equipment and a laser cutter. Over a thousand face screens have been delivered to local care homes in Tottenham and to Newham University Hospital. There is a shortage of PPE during the COVID-19 pandemic, many schools and clothing manufacturers producing equipment for the NHS and front line key workers. Photo credit: Dinendra Haria/LNP
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  • © Licensed to London News Pictures. 06/05/2020. London, UK. Staff at Gladesmore Community School in Tottenham, north London make face shields which comply with the Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) standards for NHS staff and front line key workers, using technology equipment and a laser cutter. Over a thousand face screens have been delivered to local care homes in Tottenham and to Newham University Hospital. There is a shortage of PPE during the COVID-19 pandemic, many schools and clothing manufacturers producing equipment for the NHS and front line key workers. Photo credit: Dinendra Haria/LNP
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  • © Licensed to London News Pictures. 06/05/2020. London, UK. Staff at Gladesmore Community School in Tottenham, north London make face shields which comply with the Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) standards for NHS staff and front line key workers, using technology equipment and a laser cutter. Over a thousand face screens have been delivered to local care homes in Tottenham and to Newham University Hospital. There is a shortage of PPE during the COVID-19 pandemic, many schools and clothing manufacturers producing equipment for the NHS and front line key workers. Photo credit: Dinendra Haria/LNP
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  • © Licensed to London News Pictures. 06/05/2020. London, UK. Staff at Gladesmore Community School in Tottenham, north London make face shields which comply with the Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) standards for NHS staff and front line key workers, using technology equipment and a laser cutter. Over a thousand face screens have been delivered to local care homes in Tottenham and to Newham University Hospital. There is a shortage of PPE during the COVID-19 pandemic, many schools and clothing manufacturers producing equipment for the NHS and front line key workers. Photo credit: Dinendra Haria/LNP
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  • © Licensed to London News Pictures. 06/05/2020. London, UK. A member of staff at Gladesmore Community School in Tottenham, north London wears a face shield, which the school has been making for NHS staff and front line key workers, using technology equipment and a laser cutter. Over a thousand face screens have been delivered to local care homes in Tottenham and to Newham University Hospital. There is a shortage of PPE during the COVID-19 pandemic, many schools and clothing manufacturers producing equipment for the NHS and front line key workers. Photo credit: Dinendra Haria/LNP
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  • © Licensed to London News Pictures. 06/05/2020. London, UK. Staff at Gladesmore Community School in Tottenham, north London make face shields which comply with the Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) standards for NHS staff and front line key workers, using technology equipment and a laser cutter. Over a thousand face screens have been delivered to local care homes in Tottenham and to Newham University Hospital. There is a shortage of PPE during the COVID-19 pandemic, many schools and clothing manufacturers producing equipment for the NHS and front line key workers. Photo credit: Dinendra Haria/LNP
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  • © Licensed to London News Pictures. 06/05/2020. London, UK. A member of staff at Gladesmore Community School in Tottenham, north London makes face shield which comply with the Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) standards for NHS staff and front line key workers, using technology equipment and a laser cutter. Over a thousand face screens have been delivered to local care homes in Tottenham and to Newham University Hospital. There is a shortage of PPE during the COVID-19 pandemic, many schools and clothing manufacturers producing equipment for the NHS and front line key workers. Photo credit: Dinendra Haria/LNP
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  • © Licensed to London News Pictures. 06/05/2020. London, UK. Staff at Gladesmore Community School in Tottenham, north London make face shields which comply with the Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) standards for NHS staff and front line key workers, using technology equipment and a laser cutter. Over a thousand face screens have been delivered to local care homes in Tottenham and to Newham University Hospital. There is a shortage of PPE during the COVID-19 pandemic, many schools and clothing manufacturers producing equipment for the NHS and front line key workers. Photo credit: Dinendra Haria/LNP
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  • © Licensed to London News Pictures. 06/05/2020. London, UK. A member of staff at Gladesmore Community School in Tottenham, north London wears a face shield, which the school has been making for NHS staff and front line key workers, using technology equipment and a laser cutter. Over a thousand face screens have been delivered to local care homes in Tottenham and to Newham University Hospital. There is a shortage of PPE during the COVID-19 pandemic, many schools and clothing manufacturers producing equipment for the NHS and front line key workers. Photo credit: Dinendra Haria/LNP
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  • © Licensed to London News Pictures. 06/05/2020. London, UK. Staff at Gladesmore Community School in Tottenham, north London make face shields which comply with the Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) standards for NHS staff and front line key workers, using technology equipment and a laser cutter. Over a thousand face screens have been delivered to local care homes in Tottenham and to Newham University Hospital. There is a shortage of PPE during the COVID-19 pandemic, many schools and clothing manufacturers producing equipment for the NHS and front line key workers. Photo credit: Dinendra Haria/LNP
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  • © Licensed to London News Pictures. 06/05/2020. London, UK. A member of staff at Gladesmore Community School in Tottenham, north London makes face shield which comply with the Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) standards for NHS staff and front line key workers, using a laser cutter. Over a thousand face screens have been delivered to local care homes in Tottenham and to Newham University Hospital. There is a shortage of PPE during the COVID-19 pandemic, many schools and clothing manufacturers producing equipment for the NHS and front line key workers. Photo credit: Dinendra Haria/LNP
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  • © Licensed to London News Pictures. 06/05/2020. London, UK. Staff at Gladesmore Community School in Tottenham, north London make face shields which comply with the Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) standards for NHS staff and front line key workers, using technology equipment and a laser cutter. Over a thousand face screens have been delivered to local care homes in Tottenham and to Newham University Hospital. There is a shortage of PPE during the COVID-19 pandemic, many schools and clothing manufacturers producing equipment for the NHS and front line key workers. Photo credit: Dinendra Haria/LNP
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  • © Licensed to London News Pictures. 06/05/2020. London, UK. A member of staff at Gladesmore Community School in Tottenham, north London makes face shield which comply with the Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) standards for NHS staff and front line key workers, using technology equipment and a laser cutter. Over a thousand face screens have been delivered to local care homes in Tottenham and to Newham University Hospital. There is a shortage of PPE during the COVID-19 pandemic, many schools and clothing manufacturers producing equipment for the NHS and front line key workers. Photo credit: Dinendra Haria/LNP
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  • © Licensed to London News Pictures. 06/05/2020. London, UK. Staff at Gladesmore Community School in Tottenham, north London make face shields which comply with the Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) standards for NHS staff and front line key workers, using technology equipment and a laser cutter. Over a thousand face screens have been delivered to local care homes in Tottenham and to Newham University Hospital. There is a shortage of PPE during the COVID-19 pandemic, many schools and clothing manufacturers producing equipment for the NHS and front line key workers. Photo credit: Dinendra Haria/LNP
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  • © Licensed to London News Pictures. 06/05/2020. London, UK. A member of staff at Gladesmore Community School in Tottenham, north London wears a face shield, which the school has been making for NHS staff and front line key workers, using technology equipment and a laser cutter. Over a thousand face screens have been delivered to local care homes in Tottenham and to Newham University Hospital. There is a shortage of PPE during the COVID-19 pandemic, many schools and clothing manufacturers producing equipment for the NHS and front line key workers. Photo credit: Dinendra Haria/LNP
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  • © Licensed to London News Pictures. 25/06/2014. Khanaqin, Iraq. Five year old Aya (L) and one year old Bilal Madi, Iraqi refugees from the front line town of Jalawla, sleep in the shade of a barn at the Bahari Taza refugee camp in Iraq. Aya and Bilal escaped the town with their Tukman family after fighting commenced between ISIS and Kurdish Peshmerga forces. Located on the outskirts of Khanaqin, a town just 20 minutes from the front-line of the battle with ISIS insurgents, the Bahari Taza refugee camp, and its satellite camps, now house around 600 families from southern Iraq. Built by the local village leader to meet the influx of refugees from nearby Jalawla and Saidia, where intense fighting is still taking place.Turkman, Arab and Kurd, both Sunni and Shia, all live together in tents, barns and unfinished buildings waiting for the conflict to end. Photo credit: Matt Cetti-Roberts/LNP
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  • © Licensed to London News Pictures. 25/06/2014. Khanaqin, Iraq. 37 year old Salh Madi (2L) is pictured with his family, Malak (3), Aya (5), his wife Rafida Ha'di (23) and their one year old son Bilal, all Iraqi refugees from the front line town of Jalawla, at the Bahari Taza refugee camp in Iraq. Salh and Rafida escaped the town with their Tukman family after fighting commenced between ISIS and Kurdish Peshmerga forces. Located on the outskirts of Khanaqin, a town just 20 minutes from the front-line of the battle with ISIS insurgents, the Bahari Taza refugee camp, and its satellite camps, now house around 600 families from southern Iraq. Built by the local village leader to meet the influx of refugees from nearby Jalawla and Saidia, where intense fighting is still taking place. Turkman, Arab and Kurd, both Sunni and Shia, all live together in tents, barns and unfinished buildings waiting for the conflict to end. Photo credit: Matt Cetti-Roberts/LNP
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  • © Licensed to London News Pictures. 14/04/20. Rotherham, UK. Craig Pickard has chalked his entire house in the colours of the rainbow in tribute to UK front line health workers fighting the coronavirus outbreak.  Craig from Maltby in Rotherham spent 16 hours over 2 days  to complete the work which was inspired by pictures of rainbows in neighbours’ windows. Photo credit: Scott Merrylees/LNP
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  • © Licensed to London News Pictures. 14/04/20. Rotherham, UK. Craig Pickard has chalked his entire house in the colours of the rainbow in tribute to UK front line health workers fighting the coronavirus outbreak.  Craig from Maltby in Rotherham spent 16 hours over 2 days  to complete the work which was inspired by pictures of rainbows in neighbours’ windows. Photo credit: Scott Merrylees/LNP
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  • © Licensed to London News Pictures. 14/04/20. Rotherham, UK. Craig Pickard has chalked his entire house in the colours of the rainbow in tribute to UK front line health workers fighting the coronavirus outbreak.  Craig from Maltby in Rotherham spent 16 hours over 2 days  to complete the work which was inspired by pictures of rainbows in neighbours’ windows. Photo credit: Scott Merrylees/LNP
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  • © Licensed to London News Pictures. 14/04/20. Rotherham, UK. Craig Pickard has chalked his entire house in the colours of the rainbow in tribute to UK front line health workers fighting the coronavirus outbreak.  Craig from Maltby in Rotherham spent 16 hours over 2 days  to complete the work which was inspired by pictures of rainbows in neighbours’ windows. Photo credit: Scott Merrylees/LNP
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  • © Licensed to London News Pictures. 14/04/20. Rotherham, UK. Craig Pickard has chalked his entire house in the colours of the rainbow in tribute to UK front line health workers fighting the coronavirus outbreak.  Craig from Maltby in Rotherham spent 16 hours over 2 days  to complete the work which was inspired by pictures of rainbows in neighbours’ windows. Photo credit: Scott Merrylees/LNP
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  • © Licensed to London News Pictures. 14/04/20. Rotherham, UK. Craig Pickard has chalked his entire house in the colours of the rainbow in tribute to UK front line health workers fighting the coronavirus outbreak.  Craig from Maltby in Rotherham spent 16 hours over 2 days  to complete the work which was inspired by pictures of rainbows in neighbours’ windows. Photo credit: Scott Merrylees/LNP
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  • © Licensed to London News Pictures. 25/06/2014. Khanaqin, Iraq. Maya (3) and her mother Rafida Ha'di (23), both Iraqi refugees from the front line town of Jalawla walk through wasteland next to a refugee camp on the outskirts of Bahari Taza village in Iraq. Located on the outskirts of Khanaqin, a town just 20 minutes from the front-line of the battle with ISIS insurgents, the Bahari Taza refugee camp, and its satellite camps, now house around 600 families from southern Iraq. Built by the local village leader to meet the influx of refugees from nearby Jalawla and Saidia, where intense fighting is still taking place. Turkman, Arab and Kurd, both Sunni and Shia, all live together in tents, barns and unfinished buildings waiting for the conflict to end. Photo credit: Matt Cetti-Roberts/LNP
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  • © Licensed to London News Pictures. 29/09/2015. Kirkuk, Iraq. A Kurdish peshmerga fighter rests on a sandbag wall at a front line near to Kirkuk, Iraq, the evening before an offensive to take 11 villages from the Islamic State.<br />
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Supported by large amounts of coalition airstrikes, members of the Iraqi-Kurdish peshmerga today (29/09/2015) 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. 04/11/2016. Hamdaniyah, Iraq. Burnt shop fronts and smashed windows are seen in the centre of 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. 29/06/2014. Khanaqin, UK Khanaqin, Iraq. Kurdish peshmerga fighters prepare to head out and relieve troops at the front line in Jalawla at a Kurdish peshmerga base in Khanaqin, Iraq. Counted by Kurds as part of their homeland, fighting in the town of Jalawla now consists of occasional skirmishes and exchanges of fire between snipers and heavy machine guns on both sides.<br />
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The peshmerga, roughly translated as those who fight, is at present engaged in fighting ISIS all along the borders of the relatively safe semi-automatous province of Iraqi-Kurdistan. Though a well organised and experienced fighting force they are currently facing ISIS insurgents armed with superior armament taken from the Iraqi Army after they retreated on several fronts. Photo credit : Matt Cetti-Roberts/LNP
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  • © Licensed to London News Pictures. 30/06/2014. Khanaqin, UK Khanaqin, Iraq. Kurdish peshmerga fighters receive supplies at the front line in Jalawla, Iraq. Counted by Kurds as part of their homeland, fighting in the town of Jalawla now consists of occasional skirmishes and exchanges of fire between snipers and heavy machine guns on both sides.<br />
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The peshmerga, roughly translated as those who fight, is at present engaged in fighting ISIS all along the borders of the relatively safe semi-automatous province of Iraqi-Kurdistan. Though a well organised and experienced fighting force they are currently facing ISIS insurgents armed with superior armament taken from the Iraqi Army after they retreated on several fronts. Photo credit : Matt Cetti-Roberts/LNP
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  • © Licensed to London News Pictures. 30/06/2014. Khanaqin, UKKhanaqin, Iraq. Kurdish peshmerga fighters walk from their positions to receive supplies at the front line in Jalawla, Iraq. Counted by Kurds as part of their homeland, fighting in the town of Jalawla now consists of occasional skirmishes and exchanges of fire between snipers and heavy machine guns on both sides.<br />
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The peshmerga, roughly translated as those who fight, is at present engaged in fighting ISIS all along the borders of the relatively safe semi-automatous province of Iraqi-Kurdistan. Though a well organised and experienced fighting force they are currently facing ISIS insurgents armed with superior armament taken from the Iraqi Army after they retreated on several fronts. Photo credit : Matt Cetti-Roberts/LNP
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  • © Licensed to London News Pictures. 30/06/2014. Khanaqin, UK Khanaqin, Iraq. A Kurdish peshmerga soldier mans a twin 14.5mm NSV heavy machine gun at a Kurdish peshmerga base in Khanaqin, Iraq, as fighters prepare to head out and relieve troops at the front line in Jalawla. Counted by Kurds as part of their homeland, fighting in the town of Jalawla now consists of occasional skirmishes and exchanges of fire between snipers and heavy machine guns on both sides.<br />
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The peshmerga, roughly translated as those who fight, is at present engaged in fighting ISIS all along the borders of the relatively safe semi-automatous province of Iraqi-Kurdistan. Though a well organised and experienced fighting force they are currently facing ISIS insurgents armed with superior armament taken from the Iraqi Army after they retreated on several fronts. Photo credit : Matt Cetti-Roberts/LNP
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  • 30/06/2014.  Khanaqin, Iraq. Kurdish peshmerga fighters prepare to head out and relieve troops at the front line in Jalawla at a Kurdish peshmerga base in Khanaqin, Iraq. Counted by Kurds as part of their homeland, fighting in the town of Jalawla now consists of occasional skirmishes and exchanges of fire between snipers and heavy machine guns on both sides.<br />
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The peshmerga, roughly translated as those who fight, is at present engaged in fighting ISIS all along the borders of the relatively safe semi-automatous province of Iraqi-Kurdistan. Though a well organised and experienced fighting force they are currently facing ISIS insurgents armed with superior armament taken from the Iraqi Army after they retreated on several fronts. © Matt Cetti-Roberts
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  • 30/06/2014.  Khanaqin, Iraq. Kurdish peshmerga fighters prepare to head out and relieve troops at the front line in Jalawla at a Kurdish peshmerga base in Khanaqin, Iraq. Counted by Kurds as part of their homeland, fighting in the town of Jalawla now consists of occasional skirmishes and exchanges of fire between snipers and heavy machine guns on both sides.<br />
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The peshmerga, roughly translated as those who fight, is at present engaged in fighting ISIS all along the borders of the relatively safe semi-automatous province of Iraqi-Kurdistan. Though a well organised and experienced fighting force they are currently facing ISIS insurgents armed with superior armament taken from the Iraqi Army after they retreated on several fronts. © Matt Cetti-Roberts
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  • © Licensed to London News Pictures. 30/06/2014. Khanaqin, UK  Khanaqin, Iraq. Kurdish peshmerga fighters prepare to head out and relieve troops at the front line in Jalawla at a Kurdish peshmerga base in Khanaqin, Iraq. Counted by Kurds as part of their homeland, fighting in the town of Jalawla now consists of occasional skirmishes and exchanges of fire between snipers and heavy machine guns on both sides.<br />
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The peshmerga, roughly translated as those who fight, is at present engaged in fighting ISIS all along the borders of the relatively safe semi-automatous province of Iraqi-Kurdistan. Though a well organised and experienced fighting force they are currently facing ISIS insurgents armed with superior armament taken from the Iraqi Army after they retreated on several fronts. Photo credit : Matt Cetti-Roberts/LNP
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  • © Licensed to London News Pictures. 30/06/2014. Khanaqin, UK  Khanaqin, Iraq. Kurdish peshmerga fighters prepare to head out and relieve troops at the front line in Jalawla at a Kurdish peshmerga base in Khanaqin, Iraq. Counted by Kurds as part of their homeland, fighting in the town of Jalawla now consists of occasional skirmishes and exchanges of fire between snipers and heavy machine guns on both sides.<br />
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The peshmerga, roughly translated as those who fight, is at present engaged in fighting ISIS all along the borders of the relatively safe semi-automatous province of Iraqi-Kurdistan. Though a well organised and experienced fighting force they are currently facing ISIS insurgents armed with superior armament taken from the Iraqi Army after they retreated on several fronts. Photo credit : Matt Cetti-Roberts/LNP
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  • © Licensed to London News Pictures. 29/06/2014. Khanaqin, UK Khanaqin, Iraq. Kurdish peshmerga fighters prepare to head out and relieve troops at the front line in Jalawla at a Kurdish peshmerga base in Khanaqin, Iraq. Counted by Kurds as part of their homeland, fighting in the town of Jalawla now consists of occasional skirmishes and exchanges of fire between snipers and heavy machine guns on both sides.<br />
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The peshmerga, roughly translated as those who fight, is at present engaged in fighting ISIS all along the borders of the relatively safe semi-automatous province of Iraqi-Kurdistan. Though a well organised and experienced fighting force they are currently facing ISIS insurgents armed with superior armament taken from the Iraqi Army after they retreated on several fronts. Photo credit : Matt Cetti-Roberts/LNP
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  • © Licensed to London News Pictures. 29/06/2014. Khanaqin, UK Khanaqin, Iraq. Kurdish peshmerga fighters prepare to head out and relieve troops at the front line in Jalawla at a Kurdish peshmerga base in Khanaqin, Iraq. Counted by Kurds as part of their homeland, fighting in the town of Jalawla now consists of occasional skirmishes and exchanges of fire between snipers and heavy machine guns on both sides.<br />
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The peshmerga, roughly translated as those who fight, is at present engaged in fighting ISIS all along the borders of the relatively safe semi-automatous province of Iraqi-Kurdistan. Though a well organised and experienced fighting force they are currently facing ISIS insurgents armed with superior armament taken from the Iraqi Army after they retreated on several fronts. Photo credit : Matt Cetti-Roberts/LNP
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  • © Licensed to London News Pictures; 09/01/2021; Kingswood, South Gloucestershire, UK. Kingswood Health Centre near Bristol, which is vaccinating people against the Covid-19 coronavirus, was offered £5,000 by a London property company called The Hacking Trust as a charitable donation or to a specific individual at the GP practice for each spare covid vaccine for the Hacking Trust's staff. The Hacking Trust say they wanted to vaccinate their front line staff and had heard some vaccines at vaccination centres were being unused due to missed appointments. Kingswood Health Centre declined the offer. The NHS has a plan of which categories of people will get the vaccine first. Photo credit: Simon Chapman/LNP.
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  • © Licensed to London News Pictures; 09/01/2021; Kingswood, South Gloucestershire, UK. Kingswood Health Centre near Bristol, which is vaccinating people against the Covid-19 coronavirus, was offered £5,000 by a London property company called The Hacking Trust as a charitable donation or to a specific individual at the GP practice for each spare covid vaccine for the Hacking Trust's staff. The Hacking Trust say they wanted to vaccinate their front line staff and had heard some vaccines at vaccination centres were being unused due to missed appointments. Kingswood Health Centre declined the offer. The NHS has a plan of which categories of people will get the vaccine first. Kingswood Health Centre is also carrying out flu vaccinations. Photo credit: Simon Chapman/LNP.
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  • © Licensed to London News Pictures. 04/06/2018. LONDON, UK. A gallery staff member views "The Old German Front Line, Arras, 1916", 1919, by Charles Sims at a preview of "Aftermath:  Art in the wake of World War One" at Tate Britain.  The exhibition marks 100 years since the end of the First World War, exploring the impact of the conflict on British, German, and French art in over 150 works from 1916 to 1932.  The show runs 5 June to 23 September 2018.  Photo credit: Stephen Chung/LNP
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  • Licensed to London News Pictures. 02/04/2017. Mosul, Iraq. An Iraqi Federal Police marksman uses his rifle to search for an ISIS sniper in a position around 20 metres from the Islamic State front line.<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. 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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