Viewfinder: Inside an Iraqi Refugee Camp

Author:: Pacific Standard Staff
Updated:: Jun 14, 2017
Original:: Mar 2, 2017

A young boy sits outside tents at the Hammam al-Alil camp for displaced people, south of Mosul, Iraq, on March 1st, 2017. — A young boy sits outside tents at the Hammam al-Alil camp for displaced people, south of Mosul, Iraq, on March 1st, 2017.
(Photo: Aris Messinis/AFP/Getty Images)

Iraqi forces arrive in the southern outskirts of Kirkuk on October 16th, 2017. Government troops clashed with Kurdish fighters Monday near the disputed city, seizing a military base and oil fields in a major operation sparked by a controversial independence referendum.

Iraqi forces arrive in the southern outskirts of Kirkuk on October 16th, 2017.

Syrian Kurds wave the Kurdish flag in the Syrian city of Qamishli on September 27th, 2017, during a gathering in support of the independence referendum in Iraq's northern Kurdish region.

Syrian Kurds wave the Kurdish flag in the Syrian city of Qamishli on September 27th, 2017, during a gathering in support of the independence referendum in Iraq's northern Kurdish region.

A member of the Iraqi forces covers his ears as he fires a mortar against Kurdish Peshmerga positions near the Turkish and Syrian borders in the Iraqi Kurdish autonomous region on October 26th, 2017.

A member of the Iraqi forces covers his ears as he fires a mortar against Kurdish Peshmerga positions near the Turkish and Syrian borders in the Iraqi Kurdish autonomous region on October 26th, 2017.

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