Photography by mildsevenlights

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On the boat to Djibouti with Yemeni refugees

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Iraqi children from a liberated town from ISIS near Tikrit wave Iraqi flags around in support of the liberation.

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HPG (formerly known as the PKK) fighters increase their fortification along the frontlines of Shangal. They come from the four countries; Iran, Syria, Turkey and Iraq that Kurds exist yet do not have their own country to help battle ISIS. Most of their work are identifying ISIS strongholds and co-ordinating with the Peshmerga for US Allied airstrikes, to underground urban warfare and sniper positions.

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The battle for Anbar begins. It becomes increasingly difficult for the media to attend due to enforced checkpoints by Hashed Al Shabi or the Iraqi government forces.

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Family members of Amjed Wathah Aziz, 33, take his body to be buried in Wadi Al-Salaam in the holy city of Najaf. Wathah was shot and killed in a firefight with ISIS on Tuesday fighting with Hashd al-Shaabi in Al-Fatha near Tikrit. He left behind a wife and two sons. 

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Karbala

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Hashed Al Shabee and the Iraq National Army retake Tikrit from ISIS

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Peshmerga watch the US Coalition air planes fly in for a late afternoon strike in Shangal, in Sinjar province. Kurdistan

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Two American ex military, Aaron Core and Samuel Swann join the ranks of the Peshmerga to fight in Kurdistan against ISIS in Kirkuk region.

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An international volunteer fighting against ISIS looks at the opponent outpost at Baqofa, 13km from Mosul. Many have funded their own equipment, weapons and ammunition to fight.

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Searching for snipers on the highest front in Shangal, in Sinjar, Kurdistan. The peshmerga received new german rifles, the Heckler Koch G36 and 33A2 as well as Carl Gulastovs and Volga SP9s.

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Assessing the aftermath after firing an RPG at a ISIS stronghold. The Peshmerga have the upper advantage of control of the Sinjar mountain overlooking the town of Sinjar while ISIS has dug themselves in setting up numerous amounts of IED and booby traps. Assisting the Peshmerga are other Kurdish factions, the YPG from Syria and the PKK from Turkey as well as Coalition airstrikes.

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Iraqi National Army return back from the frontlines with ISIS, Diyala, Iraq

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The graffiti reads "Persevering despite destruction"

Aleppo, Syria

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A child recieve medical attention at a clinic made in rebel held Karen state of Burma/Myanmar. Several young medics help tend to the ill day and their is schooling for the next generation of medics and first responders to illness and wounded in the villages 

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Resistance militia Better Organisation train hundreds of new recruits to fight against ISIS. Better Organisation is not all Shia but consist of 40% Sunni fighters fighting to liberate Iraq from ISIS. They have been battling in Anbar, Kirkuk, Dhuluiya, and Samara

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The US Military conduct a six month program teaching the Iraqi National Army in tactics to be able to combat ISIS.