My 2016 pictures in Iraq and Syria

Sinjar, March 2016. Photo by Benedetta Argentieri

Happy New Year!

I want to share some pictures of places I have seen and people I met during this past year.

Damascus, Syria, November 2016 Read about it here http://www.tpi.it/mondo/siria/damasco-regime-assad-siria
Damascus, Syria, November 2016
A militia fighter guards a water plant in Haj Ali, Iraq. Red here https://warisboring.com/villagers-return-to-a-town-freed-from-islamic-state-and-arm-themselves-7349d7d0e7e0#.yivmcns18
Refugees returning home. Iraq, October 2016
Workers at the Mosul Dam, Iraq. May 2016. Read about it here https://warisboring.com/theres-no-rush-to-save-the-world-s-most-dangerous-dam-79fd26749fb7#.rnkw15nml
Sinjar, Iraq. May, 2016 Read about it here http://news.trust.org/item/20160620125305-2m9x4
Sinjar, Iraq. May, 2016 Read about it here http://news.trust.org/item/20160620125305-2m9x4
Peshmerga playing volleyball while stationed in Sinjar, Iraq. May 2016
A Yazidi boy on mount Sinjar, Iraq. May 2016
At a HPG outpost on the frontline in Kirkuk, Iraq.
The PKK commander for the city of Kirkuk. May, 2016.
YJA Star guerrilla fighters while looking at ISIS. Kirkuk, Iraq, May 2016
A woman in Haj Ali, Iraq. (October 2016)
Kids watching the oil wells burning . October 2016. Read about it here http://www.aljazeera.com/news/2016/10/isil-retaliates-locals-torching-oil-wells-161029122306148.html
Kids in Qayyara, Iraq, October 2016
Kids in Qayyara, Iraq, October 2016 Read about the oil wells here http://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/the-day-the-sun-never-rose-bdfgpd93t
Dolma on a plate. Kirkuk, Iraq. May 2016 Read the culinary guide on the frontline https://warisboring.com/a-culinary-guide-to-the-kurdish-front-line-246009156b39#.7eixyem7m
Talking to an Iraqi woman in Haj Ali, Iraq. October 2016
Qayyara on fire. Iraq, October 2016
Iraqi children, October 2016.
A portrait of the Syrian president Bashar Al-Assad in Damascus, Syria. November 2016
Children playing in a market in Damascus, Syria. October 2016
Intisar Abdulhamid and her husband while telling me about their life as deaf and dumb. Read about it here http://news.trust.org/item/20160616010320-z51vy
Damascus, Syria. November 2016
Snuni, Iraq. March 2016
On the way to Sinjar, Iraq. March
Sinjar, Iraq, May 2016

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Benedetta Argentieri

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