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  • © Licensed to London News Pictures. 25/06/2014. Khanaqin, Iraq. Young Iraqi refugees are seen in the back of a car from Diyala Province, the scene of fierce fighting between insurgents and security forces on the road from 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
    LNP_KANI_TAZA_21_MCR.JPG
  • © 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 Kurdish peshmerga, having withdrawn to the mountain after the August 2014 ISIS offensive, now watch over Islamic State held territory from their sandbagged high-ground positions.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
    LNP_BASHIQA_18_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 Kurdish peshmerga, having withdrawn to the mountain after the August 2014 ISIS offensive, now watch over Islamic State held territory from their sandbagged high-ground positions.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. 11/12/2014. Sinjar Mountains, Iraq. Tents belonging to Yazidi refugees, stranded after being surrounded by Islamic State insurgents, are seen on Mount Sinjar.<br />
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Although a well publicised exodus of Yazidi refugees took place from Mount Sinjar in August 2014 many still remain on top of the 75 km long ridge-line, with estimates varying from 2000-8000 people, after a corridor kept open by Syrian-Kurdish YPG fighters collapsed during an Islamic State offensive. The mountain is now surrounded on all sides with winter closing in, the only chance of escape or supply being by Iraqi Air Force helicopters. Photo credit: Matt Cetti-Roberts/LNP
    LNP_SINJAR01_23_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. 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. 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. 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
    LNP_KANI_TAZA_06_MCR.JPG
  • © Licensed to London News Pictures. 25/06/2014. Khanaqin, Iraq. Two young Iraqi refugees play with burning rubbish at 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
    LNP_KANI_TAZA_17_MCR.JPG
  • © Licensed to London News Pictures. 25/06/2014. Khanaqin, Iraq. A young Iraqi refugee plays with a balloon at 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
    LNP_KANI_TAZA_20_MCR.JPG
  • © Licensed to London News Pictures. 25/06/2014. Khanaqin, Iraq. A young Iraqi refugee walks 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
    LNP_KANI_TAZA_15_MCR.JPG
  • © Licensed to London News Pictures. 25/06/2014. Khanaqin, Iraq. Iraqi refugees are seen at 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
    LNP_KANI_TAZA_10_MCR.JPG
  • © Licensed to London News Pictures. 25/06/2014. Khanaqin, Iraq. Young Iraqi refugees make use of a water tank provided by the International Red Cross at 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
    LNP_KANI_TAZA_02_MCR.JPG
  • © Licensed to London News Pictures. 25/06/2014. Khanaqin, Iraq. Tents and cars used by Iraqi refugees, who also inhabit much of the unfinished house, are seen at 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
    LNP_KANI_TAZA_04_MCR.JPG
  • © 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
    LNP_KANI_TAZA_07_MCR.JPG
  • © 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. 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 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. 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. 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 />
<br />
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. 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. 11/12/2014. Sinjar Mountains, Iraq. Yazidi refugees, stranded after being surrounded by Islamic State insurgents, are seen on Mount Sinjar.<br />
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Although a well publicised exodus of Yazidi refugees took place from Mount Sinjar in August 2014 many still remain on top of the 75 km long ridge-line, with estimates varying from 2000-8000 people, after a corridor kept open by Syrian-Kurdish YPG fighters collapsed during an Islamic State offensive. The mountain is now surrounded on all sides with winter closing in, the only chance of escape or supply being by Iraqi Air Force helicopters. Photo credit: Matt Cetti-Roberts/LNP
    LNP_SINJAR01_16_MCR.JPG
  • © Licensed to London News Pictures. 11/12/2014. Sinjar Mountains, Iraq. Yazidi refugees, stranded after being surrounded by Islamic State insurgents, are seen on Mount Sinjar.<br />
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Although a well publicised exodus of Yazidi refugees took place from Mount Sinjar in August 2014 many still remain on top of the 75 km long ridge-line, with estimates varying from 2000-8000 people, after a corridor kept open by Syrian-Kurdish YPG fighters collapsed during an Islamic State offensive. The mountain is now surrounded on all sides with winter closing in, the only chance of escape or supply being by Iraqi Air Force helicopters. Photo credit: Matt Cetti-Roberts/LNP
    LNP_SINJAR01_05_MCR.JPG
  • © Licensed to London News Pictures. 25/06/2014. Khanaqin, Iraq. Iraqi refugees are seen amongst tents in a barn at the 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
    LNP_KANI_TAZA_18_MCR.JPG
  • © Licensed to London News Pictures. 25/06/2014. Khanaqin, Iraq. Tents inhabited by Iraqi refugees are seen at 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
    LNP_KANI_TAZA_12_MCR.JPG
  • © Licensed to London News Pictures. 25/06/2014. Khanaqin, Iraq. A young Iraqi refugee walks along a road through 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
    LNP_KANI_TAZA_13_MCR.JPG
  • © Licensed to London News Pictures. 25/06/2014. Khanaqin, Iraq. An elderly Iraqi refugee walks past a Kurdish flag on the reception tent of 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
    LNP_KANI_TAZA_11_MCR.JPG
  • © Licensed to London News Pictures. 25/06/2014. Khanaqin, Iraq. A young Iraqi refugee walks between tents at 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
    LNP_KANI_TAZA_09_MCR.JPG
  • © Licensed to London News Pictures. 25/06/2014. Khanaqin, Iraq. Ali Farthal Rahim (40), a Sunni Arab Iraqi refugee from Sharaban Province, is pictured at the Kan Taza refugee camp near Khanaqin, Iraq. Formerly a labourer in his home town, Ali left his home with his wife, 6 children and his daughter-in-law on the 16th of June, traveling via Kirkuk to avoid ISIS occupied territory he arrived at Bahari Taza camp. 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
    LNP_KANI_TAZA_08_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. 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
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  • © 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
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  • © Licensed to London News Pictures. 25/06/2014. Khanaqin, Iraq. Iraqi refugees are seen at 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. 25/06/2014. Khanaqin, Iraq. Two young Iraqi refugees play with burning rubbish at 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. 25/06/2014. Khanaqin, Iraq. Iraqi refugees are seen at 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. 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. 01/09/2015. Bashiqa, Iraq. A puff of smoke marks the spot where a coalition aircraft dropped a bomb on ISIS vehicles moving through the town of Bashiqa, Iraq. The ISIS heald city of Mosul can be seen illuminated in the background.<br />
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Bashiqa Mountain, towering over the town of the same name, is now a heavily fortified front line. Kurdish peshmerga, having withdrawn to the mountain after the August 2014 ISIS offensive, now watch over Islamic State held territory from their sandbagged high-ground positions. Regular exchanges of fire take place between the Kurds and the Islamic militants with the occupied Iraqi city of Mosul forming the backdrop.<br />
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The town of Bashiqa, a formerly mixed town that had a population of Yazidi, Kurd, Arab and Shabak, now lies empty apart from insurgents. Along with several other urban sprawls the town forms one of the gateways to Iraq's second largest city that will need to be dealt with should the Kurds be called to advance on Mosul. Photo credit: Matt Cetti-Roberts/LNP
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  • © Licensed to London News Pictures. 27/07/2014. Hamdaniyah, Iraq. An Iraqi Christian priest delivers mass to Iraqi Christians, many of them recent refugees from Mosul, at a church in Hamdaniyah, Iraq.<br />
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Having taken over Mosul Iraq's second largest city in June 2014, fighter of the Islamic State (formerly known as ISIS) have systematically expelled the cities Christian population. Despite having been present in the city for more than 1600 years, Christians in the city were given just days to either convert to Islam, pay a tax for being Christian or leave; many of those that left were also robbed at gunpoint as they passed through ISIS checkpoints. Photo credit: Matt Cetti-Roberts/LNP
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  • © Licensed to London News Pictures. 27/07/2014. Hamdaniyah, Iraq. An Iraqi Christian priest delivers mass to Iraqi Christians, many of them recent refugees from Mosul, at a church in Hamdaniyah, Iraq.<br />
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Having taken over Mosul Iraq's second largest city in June 2014, fighter of the Islamic State (formerly known as ISIS) have systematically expelled the cities Christian population. Despite having been present in the city for more than 1600 years, Christians in the city were given just days to either convert to Islam, pay a tax for being Christian or leave; many of those that left were also robbed at gunpoint as they passed through ISIS checkpoints. Photo credit: Matt Cetti-Roberts/LNP
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  • © Licensed to London News Pictures. Hamdaniyah, Iraq. 26/07/2014. Kurdish Zeravani soldiers pump water from a petrol tanker as they distribute drinking water to Christian refugees who recently escaped from Mosul in Hamdaniyah, Iraq.<br />
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Having taken over Mosul Iraq's second largest city in June 2014, fighter of the Islamic State (formerly known as ISIS) have systematically expelled the cities Christian population. Despite having been present in the city for more than 1600 years, Christians in the city were given just days to either convert to Islam, pay a tax for being Christian or leave; many of those that left were also robbed at gunpoint as they passed through Islamic State checkpoints.. Photo credit : Matt Cetti-Roberts/LNP
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  • © Licensed to London News Pictures. Hamdaniyah, Iraq. 26/07/2014. Lunch is seen cooking on a gas cooker used by 17 members of an extended family of Iraqi Christian refugees from Mosul in their partially built house in Hamdaniyah, Iraq. The family left Mosul on Friday the 18th of July when Islamic State fighters issued an ultimatum to the city's Christian community. When the family left they were forced to pay a tax for their car, and one son (19) was threatened at knifepoint to ensure they handed over all of their possessions including family photographs.<br />
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Having taken over Mosul Iraq's second largest city in June 2014, fighter of the Islamic State (formerly known as ISIS) have systematically expelled the cities Christian population. Despite having been present in the city for more than 1600 years, Christians in the city were given just days to either convert to Islam, pay a tax for being Christian or leave; many of those that left were also robbed at gunpoint as they passed through Islamic State checkpoints.. Photo credit : Matt Cetti-Roberts/LNP
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  • © Licensed to London News Pictures. Hamdaniyah, Iraq. 26/07/2014. Sahira Samir Kamal, an Iraqi Christian refugee from Mosul, brushes her the hair of her daughter, Dilar (9), after being resupplied with fresh drinking water by Kurdish Zeravani soldiers at the partially built home they share with 15 other family members in Hamdaniyah, Iraq. Sahira and her family left Mosul on Friday the 18th of July when Islamic State fighters issued an ultimatum to the city's Christian community. When the family left they were forced to pay a tax for their car, their son (19) was threatened at knifepoint to ensure they handed over all of their possessions including family photographs.<br />
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Having taken over Mosul Iraq's second largest city in June 2014, fighter of the Islamic State (formerly known as ISIS) have systematically expelled the cities Christian population. Despite having been present in the city for more than 1600 years, Christians in the city were given just days to either convert to Islam, pay a tax for being Christian or leave; many of those that left were also robbed at gunpoint as they passed through Islamic State checkpoints.. Photo credit : Matt Cetti-Roberts/LNP
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  • © Licensed to London News Pictures. Hamdaniyah, Iraq. 26/07/2014. Iraqi Christian refugees from Mosul fill water containers from a tanker provided by Kurdish Zeravani soldiers in Hamdaniyah, Iraq.<br />
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Having taken over Mosul Iraq's second largest city in June 2014, fighter of the Islamic State (formerly known as ISIS) have systematically expelled the cities Christian population. Despite having been present in the city for more than 1600 years, Christians in the city were given just days to either convert to Islam, pay a tax for being Christian or leave; many of those that left were also robbed at gunpoint as they passed through Islamic State checkpoints.. Photo credit : Matt Cetti-Roberts/LNP
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  • © Licensed to London News Pictures. Hamdaniyah, Iraq. 26/07/2014. Christian refugee Ra'id Samir Kamal (45), formerly a driver in Mosul, waits for a bucket of water to clean his kitchen after Kurdish Zeravani soldiers distributed fresh supplies of drinking water to refugee families living in partially built houses in Hamdaniyah, Iraq. Samir left Mosul on Friday the 18th of July when Islamic State fighters issued an ultimatum to the city's Christian community. When the family left they were forced to pay a tax for their car, their son (19) was threatened at knifepoint to ensure they handed over all of their possessions including family photographs.<br />
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Having taken over Mosul Iraq's second largest city in June 2014, fighter of the Islamic State (formerly known as ISIS) have systematically expelled the cities Christian population. Despite having been present in the city for more than 1600 years, Christians in the city were given just days to either convert to Islam, pay a tax for being Christian or leave; many of those that left were also robbed at gunpoint as they passed through Islamic State checkpoints.. Photo credit : Matt Cetti-Roberts/LNP
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  • © Licensed to London News Pictures. Hamdaniyah, Iraq. 25/07/2014.  A young female Christian refugee from Mosul, stands in the garden of the home she now shares with the 16 other members of her extended family in Hamdaniyah, Iraq. She left Mosul on Friday the 18th of July when Islamic State fighters issued an ultimatum to the city's Christian community. When the family left they were forced to pay a tax for their car, and one member was threatened at knifepoint to ensure they handed over all of their possessions.<br />
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Having taken over Mosul Iraq's second largest city in June 2014, fighter of the Islamic State (formerly known as ISIS) have systematically expelled the cities Christian population. Despite having been present in the city for more than 1600 years, Christians in the city were given just days to either convert to Islam, pay a tax for being Christian or leave; many of those that left were also robbed at gunpoint as they passed through Islamic State checkpoints.. Photo credit : Matt Cetti-Roberts/LNP
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  • © Licensed to London News Pictures. Hamdaniyah, Iraq. 25/07/2014. A picture of Jesus Christ is seen on the wall of a room inhabited by Iraqi Christians from Mosul in Hamdaniyah, Iraq.<br />
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Having taken over Mosul Iraq's second largest city in June 2014, fighter of the Islamic State (formerly known as ISIS) have systematically expelled the cities Christian population. Despite having been present in the city for more than 1600 years, Christians in the city were given just days to either convert to Islam, pay a tax for being Christian or leave; many of those that left were also robbed at gunpoint as they passed through Islamic State checkpoints.. Photo credit : Matt Cetti-Roberts/LNP
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  • © Licensed to London News Pictures. Hamdaniyah, Iraq. 25/07/2014. Suffering from a fever due to the severe summer heat, Yusef's family had most of their possession stolen by Islamic State fighters at a checkpoint when they left Mosul, one fighter also snatched 250 Iraqi Dinars (US$ .50) from Yusef's hand as they exited the city limits.<br />
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Having taken over Mosul Iraq's second largest city in June 2014, fighter of the Islamic State (formerly known as ISIS) have systematically expelled the cities Christian population. Despite having been present in the city for more than 1600 years, Christians in the city were given just days to either convert to Islam, pay a tax for being Christian or leave; many of those that left were also robbed at gunpoint as they passed through Islamic State checkpoints.. Photo credit : Matt Cetti-Roberts/LNP
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  • © Licensed to London News Pictures. Hamdaniyah, Iraq. 25/07/2014. Hamdaniyah, Iraq.Some of the members of a 17 strong Iraqi Christian refugee family are seen in a room of the unfinished house they now inhabit in Hamdaniyah, Iraq. The family all left Mosul on Friday the 18th of July when Islamic State fighters issued an ultimatum to the city's Christian community. When the family left they were forced to pay a tax for their car, and one member was threatened at knifepoint to ensure they handed over all of their possessions.<br />
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Having taken over Mosul Iraq's second largest city in June 2014, fighter of the Islamic State (formerly known as ISIS) have systematically expelled the cities Christian population. Despite having been present in the city for more than 1600 years, Christians in the city were given just days to either convert to Islam, pay a tax for being Christian or leave; many of those that left were also robbed at gunpoint as they passed through Islamic State checkpoints.. Photo credit : Matt Cetti-Roberts/LNP
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  • © Licensed to London News Pictures. Hamdaniyah, Iraq. 25/07/2014. Hamdaniyah, Iraq. A Christian nun rings the doorbell of a doctor's surgery in the Iraqi Christian town of Hamdaniyah. Although located close to the front line with the Islamic State the relatively peaceful town has seen over 600 Christian families arrive from nearby Mosul, with many crammed into unfinished houses.<br />
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Having taken over Mosul Iraq's second largest city in June 2014, fighter of the Islamic State (formerly known as ISIS) have systematically expelled the cities Christian population. Despite having been present in the city for more than 1600 years, Christians in the city were given just days to either convert to Islam, pay a tax for being Christian or leave; many of those that left were also robbed at gunpoint as they passed through Islamic State checkpoints.. Photo credit : Matt Cetti-Roberts/LNP
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  • © Licensed to London News Pictures. 27/07/2014. Hamdaniyah, Iraq. Dilar Minowar Salim (9), an Iraqi Christian refugee from Mosul, looks back as she leaves a service held at a church in Hamdaniyah, Iraq.<br />
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Having taken over Mosul Iraq's second largest city in June 2014, fighter of the Islamic State (formerly known as ISIS) have systematically expelled the cities Christian population. Despite having been present in the city for more than 1600 years, Christians in the city were given just days to either convert to Islam, pay a tax for being Christian or leave; many of those that left were also robbed at gunpoint as they passed through ISIS checkpoints. Photo credit: Matt Cetti-Roberts/LNP
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  • © Licensed to London News Pictures. 27/07/2014. Hamdaniyah, Iraq. Rania Minowar Salim (9), an Iraqi Christian refugee from Mosul, walks to church with her father, Ra'id Samir Kamal (45), in Hamdaniyah, Iraq.<br />
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Having taken over Mosul Iraq's second largest city in June 2014, fighter of the Islamic State (formerly known as ISIS) have systematically expelled the cities Christian population. Despite having been present in the city for more than 1600 years, Christians in the city were given just days to either convert to Islam, pay a tax for being Christian or leave; many of those that left were also robbed at gunpoint as they passed through ISIS checkpoints. Photo credit: Matt Cetti-Roberts/LNP
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  • © Licensed to London News Pictures. 27/07/2014. Hamdaniyah, Iraq. Rania Minowar Salim (9), an Iraqi Christian refugee from Mosul, stands on a wall outside the partially built house she shares with her extended family of 17 in Hamdaniyah, Iraq.<br />
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Having taken over Mosul Iraq's second largest city in June 2014, fighter of the Islamic State (formerly known as ISIS) have systematically expelled the cities Christian population. Despite having been present in the city for more than 1600 years, Christians in the city were given just days to either convert to Islam, pay a tax for being Christian or leave; many of those that left were also robbed at gunpoint as they passed through ISIS checkpoints. Photo credit: Matt Cetti-Roberts/LNP
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  • © Licensed to London News Pictures. Hamdaniyah, Iraq. 26/07/2014. Lunch is seen cooking on a gas cooker used by 17 members of an extended family of Iraqi Christian refugees from Mosul in their partially built house in Hamdaniyah, Iraq. The family left Mosul on Friday the 18th of July when Islamic State fighters issued an ultimatum to the city's Christian community. When the family left they were forced to pay a tax for their car, and one son (19) was threatened at knifepoint to ensure they handed over all of their possessions including family photographs.<br />
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Having taken over Mosul Iraq's second largest city in June 2014, fighter of the Islamic State (formerly known as ISIS) have systematically expelled the cities Christian population. Despite having been present in the city for more than 1600 years, Christians in the city were given just days to either convert to Islam, pay a tax for being Christian or leave; many of those that left were also robbed at gunpoint as they passed through Islamic State checkpoints.. Photo credit : Matt Cetti-Roberts/LNP
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  • © Licensed to London News Pictures. Hamdaniyah, Iraq. 26/07/2014. Some of the members of a 17 strong Iraqi Christian refugee family eat lunch in the kitchen of the unfinished house they now inhabit in Hamdaniyah, Iraq. The family all left Mosul on Friday the 18th of July when Islamic State fighters issued an ultimatum to the city's Christian community. When the family left they were forced to pay a tax for their car, and one member was threatened at knifepoint to ensure they handed over all of their possessions.<br />
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Having taken over Mosul Iraq's second largest city in June 2014, fighter of the Islamic State (formerly known as ISIS) have systematically expelled the cities Christian population. Despite having been present in the city for more than 1600 years, Christians in the city were given just days to either convert to Islam, pay a tax for being Christian or leave; many of those that left were also robbed at gunpoint as they passed through Islamic State checkpoints.. Photo credit : Matt Cetti-Roberts/LNP
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  • © Licensed to London News Pictures. Hamdaniyah, Iraq. 26/07/2014. Dilar Minowar Salim, 9, pours water over her head after being resupplied with fresh drinking water by Kurdish Zeravani soldiers at the partially built home she shares with 16 other family members in Hamdaniyah, Iraq. Dilar and her family left Mosul on Friday the 18th of July when Islamic State fighters issued an ultimatum to the city's Christian community. When the family left they were forced to pay a tax for their car and the eldest son (19) was threatened at knifepoint to ensure they handed over all of their possessions including family photographs.<br />
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Having taken over Mosul Iraq's second largest city in June 2014, fighter of the Islamic State (formerly known as ISIS) have systematically expelled the cities Christian population. Despite having been present in the city for more than 1600 years, Christians in the city were given just days to either convert to Islam, pay a tax for being Christian or leave; many of those that left were also robbed at gunpoint as they passed through Islamic State checkpoints.. Photo credit : Matt Cetti-Roberts/LNP
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  • © Licensed to London News Pictures. Hamdaniyah, Iraq. 26/07/2014. Christian refugee Ra'id Samir Kamal (45), formerly a driver in Mosul, empties a container of water over his head after Kurdish Zeravani soldiers distributed fresh supplies of drinking water to refugee families living in partially built houses in Hamdaniyah, Iraq. Samir left Mosul on Friday the 18th of July when Islamic State fighters issued an ultimatum to the city's Christian community. When the family left they were forced to pay a tax for their car, their son (19) was threatened at knifepoint to ensure they handed over all of their possessions including family photographs.<br />
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Having taken over Mosul Iraq's second largest city in June 2014, fighter of the Islamic State (formerly known as ISIS) have systematically expelled the cities Christian population. Despite having been present in the city for more than 1600 years, Christians in the city were given just days to either convert to Islam, pay a tax for being Christian or leave; many of those that left were also robbed at gunpoint as they passed through Islamic State checkpoints.. Photo credit : Matt Cetti-Roberts/LNP
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  • © Licensed to London News Pictures. Hamdaniyah, Iraq. 26/07/2014.  An Iraqi Christian refugee from Mosul talks to a Kurdish Zeravani solder  as he fills water containers from a tanker in Hamdaniyah, Iraq.<br />
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Having taken over Mosul Iraq's second largest city in June 2014, fighter of the Islamic State (formerly known as ISIS) have systematically expelled the cities Christian population. Despite having been present in the city for more than 1600 years, Christians in the city were given just days to either convert to Islam, pay a tax for being Christian or leave; many of those that left were also robbed at gunpoint as they passed through Islamic State checkpoints.. Photo credit : Matt Cetti-Roberts/LNP
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  • © Licensed to London News Pictures. Hamdaniyah, Iraq. 26/07/2014.  Iraqi Christian refugee Dilar Minowar Salim, 9 (C), watches as her family receives fresh drinking water from Kurdish Zeravani soldiers at the partially built home she shares with 16 other family members in Hamdaniyah, Iraq. Dilar left Mosul on Friday the 18th of July with her family when Islamic State fighters issued an ultimatum to the city's Christian community. When the family left they were forced to pay a tax for their car, and her elder brother (19) was threatened at knifepoint to ensure they handed over all of their possessions including family photographs.<br />
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Having taken over Mosul Iraq's second largest city in June 2014, fighter of the Islamic State (formerly known as ISIS) have systematically expelled the cities Christian population. Despite having been present in the city for more than 1600 years, Christians in the city were given just days to either convert to Islam, pay a tax for being Christian or leave; many of those that left were also robbed at gunpoint as they passed through Islamic State checkpoints.. Photo credit : Matt Cetti-Roberts/LNP
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  • © Licensed to London News Pictures. Hamdaniyah, Iraq. 25/07/2014. Hamdaniyah, Iraq. Christian refugees from Mosul stand on the doorstep of the unfinished house they shares with 14 other members of their extended family in Hamdaniyah, Iraq. The family left Mosul on Friday the 18th of July when Islamic State fighters issued an ultimatum to the city's Christian community. When they left they were forced to pay a tax for their car and one family member was threatened at knifepoint to ensure they handed over all of their possessions  including family photographs.<br />
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Having taken over Mosul Iraq's second largest city in June 2014, fighter of the Islamic State (formerly known as ISIS) have systematically expelled the cities Christian population. Despite having been present in the city for more than 1600 years, Christians in the city were given just days to either convert to Islam, pay a tax for being Christian or leave; many of those that left were also robbed at gunpoint as they passed through Islamic State checkpoints.. Photo credit : Matt Cetti-Roberts/LNP
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  • © Licensed to London News Pictures. Hamdaniyah, Iraq. 25/07/2014. Hamdaniyah, Iraq. A Christian religious icon is seen at the entrance to the Christian academy in the Iraqi town of Hamdaniyah. Located close to the front line with Islamic State, the relatively peaceful predominantly Christian town has seen over 600 Christian families arrive from nearby Mosul, with many crammed into unfinished houses.<br />
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Having taken over Mosul Iraq's second largest city in June 2014, fighter of the Islamic State (formerly known as ISIS) have systematically expelled the cities Christian population. Despite having been present in the city for more than 1600 years, Christians in the city were given just days to either convert to Islam, pay a tax for being Christian or leave; many of those that left were also robbed at gunpoint as they passed through Islamic State checkpoints.. Photo credit : Matt Cetti-Roberts/LNP
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  • © Licensed to London News Pictures. Hamdaniyah, Iraq. 25/07/2014. Hamdaniyah, Iraq. A Christian nun rings the doorbell of a doctor's surgery in the Iraqi Christian town of Hamdaniyah. Although located close to the front line with the Islamic State the relatively peaceful town has seen over 600 Christian families arrive from nearby Mosul, with many crammed into unfinished houses.<br />
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Having taken over Mosul Iraq's second largest city in June 2014, fighter of the Islamic State (formerly known as ISIS) have systematically expelled the cities Christian population. Despite having been present in the city for more than 1600 years, Christians in the city were given just days to either convert to Islam, pay a tax for being Christian or leave; many of those that left were also robbed at gunpoint as they passed through Islamic State checkpoints.. Photo credit : Matt Cetti-Roberts/LNP
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  • © Licensed to London News Pictures. Hamdaniyah, Iraq. 25/07/2014. Hamdaniyah, Iraq. A Christian nun rings the doorbell of a doctor's surgery in the Iraqi Christian town of Hamdaniyah. Although located close to the front line with the Islamic State the relatively peaceful town has seen over 600 Christian families arrive from nearby Mosul, with many crammed into unfinished houses.<br />
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Having taken over Mosul Iraq's second largest city in June 2014, fighter of the Islamic State (formerly known as ISIS) have systematically expelled the cities Christian population. Despite having been present in the city for more than 1600 years, Christians in the city were given just days to either convert to Islam, pay a tax for being Christian or leave; many of those that left were also robbed at gunpoint as they passed through Islamic State checkpoints.. Photo credit : Matt Cetti-Roberts/LNP
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  • © Licensed to London News Pictures. 27/07/2014. Hamdaniyah, Iraq. An Iraqi Christian priest delivers mass to Iraqi Christians, many of them recent refugees from Mosul, at a church in Hamdaniyah, Iraq.<br />
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Having taken over Mosul Iraq's second largest city in June 2014, fighter of the Islamic State (formerly known as ISIS) have systematically expelled the cities Christian population. Despite having been present in the city for more than 1600 years, Christians in the city were given just days to either convert to Islam, pay a tax for being Christian or leave; many of those that left were also robbed at gunpoint as they passed through ISIS checkpoints. Photo credit: Matt Cetti-Roberts/LNP
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  • © Licensed to London News Pictures. 27/07/2014. Hamdaniyah, Iraq. An Iraqi Christian priest delivers mass to Iraqi Christians, many of them recent refugees from Mosul, at a church in Hamdaniyah, Iraq.<br />
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Having taken over Mosul Iraq's second largest city in June 2014, fighter of the Islamic State (formerly known as ISIS) have systematically expelled the cities Christian population. Despite having been present in the city for more than 1600 years, Christians in the city were given just days to either convert to Islam, pay a tax for being Christian or leave; many of those that left were also robbed at gunpoint as they passed through ISIS checkpoints. Photo credit: Matt Cetti-Roberts/LNP
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  • © Licensed to London News Pictures. 27/07/2014. Hamdaniyah, Iraq. An Iraqi Christian priest delivers mass to Iraqi Christians, many of them recent refugees from Mosul, at a church in Hamdaniyah, Iraq.<br />
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Having taken over Mosul Iraq's second largest city in June 2014, fighter of the Islamic State (formerly known as ISIS) have systematically expelled the cities Christian population. Despite having been present in the city for more than 1600 years, Christians in the city were given just days to either convert to Islam, pay a tax for being Christian or leave; many of those that left were also robbed at gunpoint as they passed through ISIS checkpoints. Photo credit: Matt Cetti-Roberts/LNP
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  • © Licensed to London News Pictures. 27/07/2014. Hamdaniyah, Iraq. An Iraqi Christian priest delivers mass to Iraqi Christians, many of them recent refugees from Mosul, at a church in Hamdaniyah, Iraq.<br />
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Having taken over Mosul Iraq's second largest city in June 2014, fighter of the Islamic State (formerly known as ISIS) have systematically expelled the cities Christian population. Despite having been present in the city for more than 1600 years, Christians in the city were given just days to either convert to Islam, pay a tax for being Christian or leave; many of those that left were also robbed at gunpoint as they passed through ISIS checkpoints. Photo credit: Matt Cetti-Roberts/LNP
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  • © Licensed to London News Pictures. 27/07/2014. Hamdaniyah, Iraq. 5 year old Iraqi Christian Mosul refugee Rania Minowar Salim (L) looks up during a service held at a church in Hamdaniyah, Iraq.<br />
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Having taken over Mosul Iraq's second largest city in June 2014, fighter of the Islamic State (formerly known as ISIS) have systematically expelled the cities Christian population. Despite having been present in the city for more than 1600 years, Christians in the city were given just days to either convert to Islam, pay a tax for being Christian or leave; many of those that left were also robbed at gunpoint as they passed through ISIS checkpoints. Photo credit: Matt Cetti-Roberts/LNP
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  • © Licensed to London News Pictures. 27/07/2014. Hamdaniyah, Iraq. Dilar Minowar Salim, 9, an Iraqi Christian refugee from Mosul, talks to her sister, Rania, 5, on the road outside the partially built house they inhabit with 15 members of their extended family in Hamdaniyah, Iraq.<br />
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Having taken over Mosul Iraq's second largest city in June 2014, fighter of the Islamic State (formerly known as ISIS) have systematically expelled the cities Christian population. Despite having been present in the city for more than 1600 years, Christians in the city were given just days to either convert to Islam, pay a tax for being Christian or leave; many of those that left were also robbed at gunpoint as they passed through ISIS checkpoints. Photo credit: Matt Cetti-Roberts/LNP
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  • © Licensed to London News Pictures. Hamdaniyah, Iraq. 26/07/2014. A Kurdish Zeravani soldier fills water tanks on the roof of a partially finished house in Hamdaniyah, Iraq, where Christian refugees who recently fled from Mosul now live.<br />
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Having taken over Mosul Iraq's second largest city in June 2014, fighter of the Islamic State (formerly known as ISIS) have systematically expelled the cities Christian population. Despite having been present in the city for more than 1600 years, Christians in the city were given just days to either convert to Islam, pay a tax for being Christian or leave; many of those that left were also robbed at gunpoint as they passed through Islamic State checkpoints.. Photo credit : Matt Cetti-Roberts/LNP
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  • © Licensed to London News Pictures. Hamdaniyah, Iraq. 26/07/2014. Christian refugee Ra'id Samir Kamal, 45 (R kneeling), formerly a driver in Mosul, east lunch with some of the members of his extended family in the partially built house they inhabit in Hamdaniyah, Iraq. Samir left Mosul on Friday the 18th of July when Islamic State fighters issued an ultimatum to the city's Christian community. When the family left they were forced to pay a tax for their car, their son (19) was threatened at knifepoint to ensure they handed over all of their possessions including family photographs.<br />
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Having taken over Mosul Iraq's second largest city in June 2014, fighter of the Islamic State (formerly known as ISIS) have systematically expelled the cities Christian population. Despite having been present in the city for more than 1600 years, Christians in the city were given just days to either convert to Islam, pay a tax for being Christian or leave; many of those that left were also robbed at gunpoint as they passed through Islamic State checkpoints.. Photo credit : Matt Cetti-Roberts/LNP
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  • © Licensed to London News Pictures. Hamdaniyah, Iraq. 26/07/2014. Lunch is seen cooking on a gas cooker used by 17 members of an extended family of Iraqi Christian refugees from Mosul in their partially built house in Hamdaniyah, Iraq. The family left Mosul on Friday the 18th of July when Islamic State fighters issued an ultimatum to the city's Christian community. When the family left they were forced to pay a tax for their car, and one son (19) was threatened at knifepoint to ensure they handed over all of their possessions including family photographs.<br />
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Having taken over Mosul Iraq's second largest city in June 2014, fighter of the Islamic State (formerly known as ISIS) have systematically expelled the cities Christian population. Despite having been present in the city for more than 1600 years, Christians in the city were given just days to either convert to Islam, pay a tax for being Christian or leave; many of those that left were also robbed at gunpoint as they passed through Islamic State checkpoints.. Photo credit : Matt Cetti-Roberts/LNP
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  • © Licensed to London News Pictures. Hamdaniyah, Iraq. 26/07/2014. Christian refugee Ra'id Samir Kamal (45), formerly a driver in Mosul, washes his youngest daughter after Kurdish Zeravani soldiers distributed fresh supplies of drinking water to refugee families living in partially built houses in Hamdaniyah, Iraq. Samir left Mosul on Friday the 18th of July when Islamic State fighters issued an ultimatum to the city's Christian community. When the family left they were forced to pay a tax for their car, their son (19) was threatened at knifepoint to ensure they handed over all of their possessions including family photographs.<br />
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Having taken over Mosul Iraq's second largest city in June 2014, fighter of the Islamic State (formerly known as ISIS) have systematically expelled the cities Christian population. Despite having been present in the city for more than 1600 years, Christians in the city were given just days to either convert to Islam, pay a tax for being Christian or leave; many of those that left were also robbed at gunpoint as they passed through Islamic State checkpoints.. Photo credit : Matt Cetti-Roberts/LNP
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  • © Licensed to London News Pictures. Hamdaniyah, Iraq. 26/07/2014. An Iraqi Christian refugee from Mosul fills water containers from a tanker provided by Kurdish Zeravani soldiers in Hamdaniyah, Iraq.<br />
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Having taken over Mosul Iraq's second largest city in June 2014, fighter of the Islamic State (formerly known as ISIS) have systematically expelled the cities Christian population. Despite having been present in the city for more than 1600 years, Christians in the city were given just days to either convert to Islam, pay a tax for being Christian or leave; many of those that left were also robbed at gunpoint as they passed through Islamic State checkpoints.. Photo credit : Matt Cetti-Roberts/LNP
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  • © Licensed to London News Pictures. Hamdaniyah, Iraq. 26/07/2014.  A row of partially built houses, home to Christian refugees from Mosul, are seen in the Christian town of Hamdaniyah, Iraq.<br />
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Having taken over Mosul Iraq's second largest city in June 2014, fighter of the Islamic State (formerly known as ISIS) have systematically expelled the cities Christian population. Despite having been present in the city for more than 1600 years, Christians in the city were given just days to either convert to Islam, pay a tax for being Christian or leave; many of those that left were also robbed at gunpoint as they passed through Islamic State checkpoints.. Photo credit : Matt Cetti-Roberts/LNP
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  • © Licensed to London News Pictures. Hamdaniyah, Iraq. 25/07/2014.  A young female Christian refugee from Mosul, stands in the garden of the home she now shares with the 16 other members of her extended family in Hamdaniyah, Iraq. She left Mosul on Friday the 18th of July when Islamic State fighters issued an ultimatum to the city's Christian community. When the family left they were forced to pay a tax for their car, and one member was threatened at knifepoint to ensure they handed over all of their possessions.<br />
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Having taken over Mosul Iraq's second largest city in June 2014, fighter of the Islamic State (formerly known as ISIS) have systematically expelled the cities Christian population. Despite having been present in the city for more than 1600 years, Christians in the city were given just days to either convert to Islam, pay a tax for being Christian or leave; many of those that left were also robbed at gunpoint as they passed through Islamic State checkpoints.. Photo credit : Matt Cetti-Roberts/LNP
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  • © Licensed to London News Pictures. Hamdaniyah, Iraq. 25/07/2014. Suffering from a fever due to the severe summer heat, Yusef's family had most of their possession stolen by Islamic State fighters at a checkpoint when they left Mosul, one fighter also snatched 250 Iraqi Dinars (US$ .50) from Yusef's hand as they exited the city limits.<br />
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Having taken over Mosul Iraq's second largest city in June 2014, fighter of the Islamic State (formerly known as ISIS) have systematically expelled the cities Christian population. Despite having been present in the city for more than 1600 years, Christians in the city were given just days to either convert to Islam, pay a tax for being Christian or leave; many of those that left were also robbed at gunpoint as they passed through Islamic State checkpoints.. Photo credit : Matt Cetti-Roberts/LNP
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  • © Licensed to London News Pictures. Hamdaniyah, Iraq. 25/07/2014. Christian refugee Ra'id Samir Kamal (45), formerly a driver in Mosul, stands in the doorway of the home he now shares with 16 other members of his extended family in Hamdaniyah, Iraq. Samir left Mosul on Friday the 18th of July when Islamic State fighters issued an ultimatum to the city's Christian community. When the family left they were forced to pay a tax for their car, their son (19) was threatened at knifepoint to ensure they handed over all of their possessions.<br />
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Having taken over Mosul Iraq's second largest city in June 2014, fighter of the Islamic State (formerly known as ISIS) have systematically expelled the cities Christian population. Despite having been present in the city for more than 1600 years, Christians in the city were given just days to either convert to Islam, pay a tax for being Christian or leave; many of those that left were also robbed at gunpoint as they passed through Islamic State checkpoints.. Photo credit : Matt Cetti-Roberts/LNP
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  • © Licensed to London News Pictures. Hamdaniyah, Iraq. 25/07/2014. Christian refugee Ra'id Samir Kamal (45), formerly a driver in Mosul, holds his five year old daughter, Rania, at the home they now share with 15 other members of their extended family in Hamdaniyah, Iraq. Samir left Mosul on Friday the 18th of July when Islamic State fighters issued an ultimatum to the city's Christian community. When the family left they were forced to pay a tax for their car, their son (19) was threatened at knifepoint to ensure they handed over all of their possessions including family photographs.<br />
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Having taken over Mosul Iraq's second largest city in June 2014, fighter of the Islamic State (formerly known as ISIS) have systematically expelled the cities Christian population. Despite having been present in the city for more than 1600 years, Christians in the city were given just days to either convert to Islam, pay a tax for being Christian or leave; many of those that left were also robbed at gunpoint as they passed through Islamic State checkpoints.. Photo credit : Matt Cetti-Roberts/LNP
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  • © Licensed to London News Pictures. Hamdaniyah, Iraq. 25/07/2014. Hamdaniyah, Iraq.  Dilar Minowar Salim (9), a female Iraqi Christian refugee holds a young relative inside the kitchen of the unfinished house they share with their extended family in Hamdaniyah, Iraq. She left Mosul on Friday the 18th of July when Islamic State fighters issued an ultimatum to the city's Christian community. When the family left they were forced to pay a tax for their car, and one member was threatened at knifepoint to ensure they handed over all of their possessions.<br />
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Having taken over Mosul Iraq's second largest city in June 2014, fighter of the Islamic State (formerly known as ISIS) have systematically expelled the cities Christian population. Despite having been present in the city for more than 1600 years, Christians in the city were given just days to either convert to Islam, pay a tax for being Christian or leave; many of those that left were also robbed at gunpoint as they passed through Islamic State checkpoints.. Photo credit : Matt Cetti-Roberts/LNP
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  • © Licensed to London News Pictures. Hamdaniyah, Iraq. 25/07/2014. Hamdaniyah, Iraq.Some of the members of a 17 strong Iraqi Christian refugee family gather in the kitchen of the unfinished house they now inhabit in Hamdaniyah, Iraq. The family all left Mosul on Friday the 18th of July when Islamic State fighters issued an ultimatum to the city's Christian community. When the family left they were forced to pay a tax for their car, and one member was threatened at knifepoint to ensure they handed over all of their possessions.<br />
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Having taken over Mosul Iraq's second largest city in June 2014, fighter of the Islamic State (formerly known as ISIS) have systematically expelled the cities Christian population. Despite having been present in the city for more than 1600 years, Christians in the city were given just days to either convert to Islam, pay a tax for being Christian or leave; many of those that left were also robbed at gunpoint as they passed through Islamic State checkpoints.. Photo credit : Matt Cetti-Roberts/LNP
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  • © Licensed to London News Pictures. Hamdaniyah, Iraq. 25/07/2014. Hamdaniyah, Iraq. A portrait of Yohanna Petros Mouche, the Syrian Catholic Archbishop of Mosul, sitting at his desk in the Christian academy in the Iraqi town of Hamdaniyah. Located close to the front line with the Islamic State, the relatively peaceful predominantly Christian town has seen over 600 Christian families arrive from nearby Mosul, with many crammed into unfinished houses.<br />
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Having taken over Mosul Iraq's second largest city in June 2014, fighter of the Islamic State (formerly known as ISIS) have systematically expelled the cities Christian population. Despite having been present in the city for more than 1600 years, Christians in the city were given just days to either convert to Islam, pay a tax for being Christian or leave; many of those that left were also robbed at gunpoint as they passed through Islamic State checkpoints.. Photo credit : Matt Cetti-Roberts/LNP
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  • © Licensed to London News Pictures. 27/07/2014. Hamdaniyah, Iraq. An Iraqi Christian priest delivers mass to Iraqi Christians, many of them recent refugees from Mosul, at a church in Hamdaniyah, Iraq.<br />
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Having taken over Mosul Iraq's second largest city in June 2014, fighter of the Islamic State (formerly known as ISIS) have systematically expelled the cities Christian population. Despite having been present in the city for more than 1600 years, Christians in the city were given just days to either convert to Islam, pay a tax for being Christian or leave; many of those that left were also robbed at gunpoint as they passed through ISIS checkpoints. Photo credit: Matt Cetti-Roberts/LNP
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  • © Licensed to London News Pictures. 27/07/2014. Hamdaniyah, Iraq. An Iraqi Christian priest delivers mass to Iraqi Christians, many of them recent refugees from Mosul, at a church in Hamdaniyah, Iraq.<br />
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Having taken over Mosul Iraq's second largest city in June 2014, fighter of the Islamic State (formerly known as ISIS) have systematically expelled the cities Christian population. Despite having been present in the city for more than 1600 years, Christians in the city were given just days to either convert to Islam, pay a tax for being Christian or leave; many of those that left were also robbed at gunpoint as they passed through ISIS checkpoints. Photo credit: Matt Cetti-Roberts/LNP
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  • © Licensed to London News Pictures. Hamdaniyah, Iraq. 26/07/2014. The tower of an Iraqi Christian church is seen in the predominantly Christian town of Hamdaniyah in Iraq.<br />
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Having taken over Mosul Iraq's second largest city in June 2014, fighter of the Islamic State (formerly known as ISIS) have systematically expelled the cities Christian population. Despite having been present in the city for more than 1600 years, Christians in the city were given just days to either convert to Islam, pay a tax for being Christian or leave; many of those that left were also robbed at gunpoint as they passed through Islamic State checkpoints.. Photo credit : Matt Cetti-Roberts/LNP
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  • © Licensed to London News Pictures. Hamdaniyah, Iraq. 26/07/2014. Sahira Samir Kamal (L), an Iraqi Christian refugee from Mosul, washes her daughter Dilar (9) after being resupplied with fresh drinking water by Kurdish Zeravani soldiers at the partially built home they share with 15 other family members in Hamdaniyah, Iraq. Sahira and her family left Mosul on Friday the 18th of July when Islamic State fighters issued an ultimatum to the city's Christian community. When the family left they were forced to pay a tax for their car, their son (19) was threatened at knifepoint to ensure they handed over all of their possessions including family photographs.<br />
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Having taken over Mosul Iraq's second largest city in June 2014, fighter of the Islamic State (formerly known as ISIS) have systematically expelled the cities Christian population. Despite having been present in the city for more than 1600 years, Christians in the city were given just days to either convert to Islam, pay a tax for being Christian or leave; many of those that left were also robbed at gunpoint as they passed through Islamic State checkpoints.. Photo credit : Matt Cetti-Roberts/LNP
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  • © Licensed to London News Pictures. Hamdaniyah, Iraq. 26/07/2014. A young Iraqi Christian refugee from Mosul hauls a water container from a tanker provided by Kurdish Zeravani soldiers in Hamdaniyah, Iraq.<br />
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Having taken over Mosul Iraq's second largest city in June 2014, fighter of the Islamic State (formerly known as ISIS) have systematically expelled the cities Christian population. Despite having been present in the city for more than 1600 years, Christians in the city were given just days to either convert to Islam, pay a tax for being Christian or leave; many of those that left were also robbed at gunpoint as they passed through Islamic State checkpoints.. Photo credit : Matt Cetti-Roberts/LNP
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  • © Licensed to London News Pictures. Hamdaniyah, Iraq. 26/07/2014. Iraqi Christian refugees from Mosul haul water containers from a tanker provided by Kurdish Zeravani soldiers in Hamdaniyah, Iraq.<br />
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Having taken over Mosul Iraq's second largest city in June 2014, fighter of the Islamic State (formerly known as ISIS) have systematically expelled the cities Christian population. Despite having been present in the city for more than 1600 years, Christians in the city were given just days to either convert to Islam, pay a tax for being Christian or leave; many of those that left were also robbed at gunpoint as they passed through Islamic State checkpoints.. Photo credit : Matt Cetti-Roberts/LNP
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  • © Licensed to London News Pictures. Hamdaniyah, Iraq. 26/07/2014.  Christian refugee Dilar Minowar Salim, 9, watches as her sister Rania (5) fills a container after being resupplied with fresh drinking water by Kurdish Zeravani soldiers at the partially built home they share with 15 other family members in Hamdaniyah, Iraq. Dilar and Rania left Mosul on Friday the 18th of July with their family when Islamic State fighters issued an ultimatum to the city's Christian community. When the family left they were forced to pay a tax for their car, their elder brother (19) was threatened at knifepoint to ensure they handed over all of their possessions including family photographs.<br />
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Having taken over Mosul Iraq's second largest city in June 2014, fighter of the Islamic State (formerly known as ISIS) have systematically expelled the cities Christian population. Despite having been present in the city for more than 1600 years, Christians in the city were given just days to either convert to Islam, pay a tax for being Christian or leave; many of those that left were also robbed at gunpoint as they passed through Islamic State checkpoints.. Photo credit : Matt Cetti-Roberts/LNP
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  • © Licensed to London News Pictures. Hamdaniyah, Iraq. 26/07/2014.  A row of partially built houses, home to Christian refugees from Mosul, are seen in the Christian town of Hamdaniyah, Iraq.<br />
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Having taken over Mosul Iraq's second largest city in June 2014, fighter of the Islamic State (formerly known as ISIS) have systematically expelled the cities Christian population. Despite having been present in the city for more than 1600 years, Christians in the city were given just days to either convert to Islam, pay a tax for being Christian or leave; many of those that left were also robbed at gunpoint as they passed through Islamic State checkpoints.. Photo credit : Matt Cetti-Roberts/LNP
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  • © Licensed to London News Pictures. Hamdaniyah, Iraq. 25/07/2014.  Two elderly Christian refugees from Mosul, both Coptic Christians originally from Egypt who came to work in Iraq around 10 years ago, make to shops located in the centre of Hamdaniyah, Iraq.<br />
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Having taken over Mosul Iraq's second largest city in June 2014, fighter of the Islamic State (formerly known as ISIS) have systematically expelled the cities Christian population. Despite having been present in the city for more than 1600 years, Christians in the city were given just days to either convert to Islam, pay a tax for being Christian or leave; many of those that left were also robbed at gunpoint as they passed through Islamic State checkpoints.. Photo credit : Matt Cetti-Roberts/LNP
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  • © Licensed to London News Pictures. Hamdaniyah, Iraq. 26/07/2014.  Christian refugee Dilar Minowar Salim, 9, watches as her sister Rania (5) fills a container after being resupplied with fresh drinking water by Kurdish Zeravani soldiers at the partially built home they share with 15 other family members in Hamdaniyah, Iraq. Dilar and Rania left Mosul on Friday the 18th of July with their family when Islamic State fighters issued an ultimatum to the city's Christian community. When the family left they were forced to pay a tax for their car, their elder brother (19) was threatened at knifepoint to ensure they handed over all of their possessions including family photographs.<br />
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Having taken over Mosul Iraq's second largest city in June 2014, fighter of the Islamic State (formerly known as ISIS) have systematically expelled the cities Christian population. Despite having been present in the city for more than 1600 years, Christians in the city were given just days to either convert to Islam, pay a tax for being Christian or leave; many of those that left were also robbed at gunpoint as they passed through Islamic State checkpoints.. Photo credit : Matt Cetti-Roberts/LNP
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  • © Licensed to London News Pictures. Hamdaniyah, Iraq. 25/07/2014. Hamdaniyah, Iraq.Christian refugee Ra'id Samir Kamal (45), formerly a driver in Mosul, holds his five year old daughter, Rania, at the home they now share with 15 other members of their extended family in Hamdaniyah, Iraq. Samir left Mosul on Friday the 18th of July when Islamic State fighters issued an ultimatum to the city's Christian community. When the family left they were forced to pay a tax for their car, their son (19) was threatened at knifepoint to ensure they handed over all of their possessions including family photographs.<br />
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Having taken over Mosul Iraq's second largest city in June 2014, fighter of the Islamic State (formerly known as ISIS) have systematically expelled the cities Christian population. Despite having been present in the city for more than 1600 years, Christians in the city were given just days to either convert to Islam, pay a tax for being Christian or leave; many of those that left were also robbed at gunpoint as they passed through Islamic State checkpoints.. Photo credit : Matt Cetti-Roberts/LNP
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  • © Licensed to London News Pictures. 30/09/2015. Kirkuk, Iraq. Kurdish peshmerga sharp shooters are seen on a hill during an offensive aimed at capturing 11 villages from the Islamic State near Kirkuk, Iraq.<br />
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Supported by large amounts of coalition airstrikes, members of the Iraqi-Kurdish peshmerga today (30/09/2015) took part in an offensive to take seven villages across a large front near Kirkuk, Iraq. By mid afternoon the Kurds had reached most of their objectives, but suffered around 10 casualties all to improvised explosive devices. All seven villages were originally Kurdish and settled with other ethnic groups during the Iraqi Arabisation process of the 1970's and 80's. Photo credit: Matt Cetti-Roberts/LNP
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  • © Licensed to London News Pictures. 11/09/2015. Kirkuk, Iraq. Kurdish peshmerga man an armoured humvee in the village of Zankhar, Iraq. The village was taken by the peshmerga during an offensive to expand a safety zone around Kirkuk, Iraq.<br />
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The offensive, which went unchallenged after ISIS left the area ahead of the attack, saw the peshmerga capture 15 villages along the Kirkuk front line. The objective of the offensive was to expand the safety zone around Kirkuk, stopping militants from firing missiles and rockets in to the city of Kirkuk. 3 peshmerga were killed and 24 wounded due to improvised explosive devices left behind by the militants. Photo credit: Matt Cetti-Roberts/LNP
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  • © Licensed to London News Pictures. 11/09/2015. Kirkuk, Iraq. Kurdish peshmerga fighters walk through the, previously Islamic State held, village of Zankhar. The village was captured during a peshmerga offensive to expand a safety zone around the city of Kirkuk, Iraq.<br />
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The offensive, which went unchallenged after ISIS left the area ahead of the attack, saw the peshmerga capture 15 villages along the Kirkuk front line. The objective of the offensive was to expand the safety zone around Kirkuk, stopping militants from firing missiles and rockets in to the city of Kirkuk. 3 peshmerga were killed and 24 wounded due to improvised explosive devices left behind by the militants. Photo credit: Matt Cetti-Roberts/LNP
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  • © Licensed to London News Pictures. 11/09/2015. Kirkuk, Iraq. Kurdish peshmerga watch from the top of an armoured humvee during an offensive by the peshmerga to expand a safety zone around Kirkuk, Iraq.<br />
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The offensive, which went unchallenged after ISIS left the area ahead of the attack, saw the peshmerga capture 15 villages along the Kirkuk front line. The objective of the offensive was to expand the safety zone around Kirkuk, stopping militants from firing missiles and rockets in to the city of Kirkuk. 3 peshmerga were killed and 24 wounded due to improvised explosive devices left behind by the militants. Photo credit: Matt Cetti-Roberts/LNP
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