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Extreme Tolerance In The Face Of Extreme Intolerance: Hiza Agre Fire Force Unit 80
Iraq / Places We Go

Extreme Tolerance In The Face Of Extreme Intolerance: Hiza Agre Fire Force Unit 80

Posted on July 14, 2016 by Justin • 3 Comments

This is the English language version of our article published in LiberoReporter. The Hiza Agre Fire Force Unit 80 is a Peshmerga unit holding a front line position on the outskirts of Mosul that is unique in a number of ways. Despite often being compelled to fight with weapons they have been able to capture … Continue reading →

The Mystery Of The Last Survivor Of Telskuf
Kurdistan (Iraq) / Places We Go

The Mystery Of The Last Survivor Of Telskuf

Posted on June 27, 2016 by Justin • 2 Comments

This is the English language version of our article published today in Il Giornale’s The Eyes Of War. The old woman huddled on the floor in front of us is wiping away her tears with hands adorned in tattoos of Christian crosses.  She is beseeching us, however no one present knows what she is so … Continue reading →

Capture Of Suspected ISIS Fighters Near Mosul
Miscellaneous

Capture Of Suspected ISIS Fighters Near Mosul

Posted on April 23, 2016 by Justin • 3 Comments

Our Peshmerga friends in the Hiza Agre Fire Force Unit 80 just sent these pictures over to us, which The Velvet Rocket audience may find interesting… A group of suspected Islamic State members detained by Hiza Agre volunteers this morning while trying to sneak across the front lines from the ISIS-controlled territory around Mosul: The … Continue reading →

The Coming Storm: The Peshmerga In Combat
Favorites / Iraq / Places We Go

The Coming Storm: The Peshmerga In Combat

Posted on March 21, 2016 by Justin • 8 Comments

The rapid-fire invasion of Iraq and then Kurdistan by ISIS, as the Islamic State was calling itself at the time, stunned the world. For several hours, it even presented an existential crisis for Kurdistan itself as the momentum of the invasion by ISIS brought them to within mere kilometers of Erbil – with little standing … Continue reading →

Iraq / Places We Go

Another Day On The Front Lines: The Kurdish Peshmerga In Combat

Posted on March 15, 2016 by Justin • Leave a comment

  * The Kurdish Peshmerga have fought their way deep into Iraq, to the edge of Mosul, and are now dug in, just waiting for the order to join in the final assault to take the city back from the Islamic State…       Continue reading →

Photo Of The Day: The Sentinel
Iraq / Places We Go

Photo Of The Day: The Sentinel

Posted on March 14, 2016 by Justin • 1 Comment

A Kurdish Peshmerga fighter stands watch over a “no man’s land” between an outpost the Peshmerga have established inside of Iraqi territory and ISIS positions outside of Mosul: Continue reading →

Art

Photo Of The Day: João Silva

Posted on May 24, 2012 by Justin • 1 Comment

Marsh Arab – Kurmashia Marsh, Iraq: Continue reading →

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