War in Iraq. Iraq 2003, Al-Mahawil. 05/16/03. Thousands of bodies exhumed at mass gravesites.
War in Iraq. Iraq, Baghdad, April 2003
War in Iraq. Iraq, 2003. Baghdad, 26/4/2003. US Marines take control of a weapons warehouse which has just been emptied and set on fire by looters.
War in Iraq. Iraq, baghdad, 2003. US Marines during an inspection.
War in Iraq. Iraq, 2003, Baghdad. A US soldier gives the thumbs up after the capture of numerous looters.
War in Iraq. Iraq, 2003, Al-Mahawil. 05/16/03. Thousands of bodies exhumed at mass gravesites.
War in Iraq. Iraq, 2003, Baghdad. 15/5/2003. Looters caught by US Marines emptying a warehouse.
War in Iraq. Iraq, Baghdad, 2003. US helicopters fly over the city.
War in Iraq. Iraq, Baghdad, 2003.
War in Iraq. Iraq, 2003, Karbala
Iraq, Kirkuk City. Just after the fall of Kirkuk. Hundreds of Kurdish refugees coming from Chamchamal city return home. April, 2004
War in Iraq. Iraq, Baghdad, 2003. Instruments of torture
War in Iraq. Iraq, 2003, Al-Mahawil. 05/16/03. Thousands of bodies exhumed at mass gravesites.
War in Iraq. Baghdad. 1/4/2003. Iraqis tear down the statue of Ahmed Hassan Al-Baker, the founder of the Baath Party.
War in Iraq. Iraq, Al-Mahawil. 11/5/2003. Thousands of bodies are exhumed at mass grave sites in al-Mahawil. Executions took place throughout the late 1970's and 1980's and in the weeks after the Gulf War in 1991, when American troops were still occupying much of southern Iraq. Saddam's government killed in purges aimed at specific political opposition groups, the Shiite majority, Communists, relatives of dissidents, Muslim clerics, Christians and Kurds.
War in Iraq. Iraqi Kurdistan. Kifri. 1/4/2003. Peshmerga fighter and civilians are targeted as they approach an Iraqi trench in southern Kurdistan (close to the city of Kirkuk) following the heaviest Iraqi shelling of the war to date. Anglo-American forces had bombed Iraqi trenches for several days. The Iraqis responded by shelling town residents.
War in Iraq. Iraq, Al-Mahawil, May 2003. Thousands of bodies are exhumed at mass grave sites in al-Mahawil. This woman is looking for the body of her son.
War in Iraq
Sulaimaniya, Iraqi Kurdistan. June 1997.
A woman is hospitalilzed for serious burns at the Teaching Hospital after a bomb exploded by the side of her house.
Iraqi Kurdistan is in northern Iraq. The Kurds have been persecuted throughout their history and have suffered abuse in Iraq, Iran and Syria. These photographs were taken in 1997/1998 at the end of the war between KDP (Kurdistan Democratic Party) and PUK (Patriotic Union of Kurdistan). The reportage shows the situation of the country 10 years after Saddam Hussein bombed the area. The images depict a population tormented by land mines and show the work of international aid organisations like Gino Strada's Emergency.
War in Iraq. Iraq. Crisis in Kurdistan. 2003. Iraqi kurdistan.Kifri.04.04.03. Bazar of Kifri.For several days American planes had attacked Iraqi positions near Kifri, 150 miles north of Baghdad. The Iraqis responded by shelling the town's residents.
War in Iraq. Iraq, Mosul city, 2003.04.12. Inside the city hospital a girl wounded during a crossfire btw us special forces and Iraqi army.
War in Iraq. Baghdad, April 2003
War in Iraq. Iraq, Karbala, 04/17/03. Karbala is the holy city for SCIRI (The Supreme Council of Islamic Revolution of Iraq). Shias make up two-thirds of Iraq's 26 million people. SCIRI boycotted a meeting of Iraqi religious and political leaders in Nasiriyah because its religious leaders refused any American presence in Iraq.
War in Iraq. Iraq, crisis in Kurdistan, 2003. Tikrit City. 14/4/2003. US troops reached the city of Tikrit in the early morning. They control the city and the main presidential palaces.
