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Kurdistan in the summer
Temperatures rising. Magnificent sunsets…
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- Taken from Zawa Mountain in Duhok looking south. In the foreground a medieval castle sits overlooking Sharia village and Sharia camp for around 19,000 Yazidies, who fled when Daesh took Sinjar in August 2014. In the background is the Mosul Dam Lake with the Dam behind the peninsula on the top right and Mosul 55 kilometres behind the mountain on the top left. Duhok, Kurdistan 2 July 2016
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- The ruins of an Assyrian castle on a ridgeline above Qalat Baadre in Duhok, Kurdistan
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- An empty 155 mm artillery shell used a weight on a boom gate in Soran, Kurdish region of Iraq.
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- An unexploded mortar in Zummar inside city. The mortar landed in the city as part of a Daesh bombardement of Zummar in 2014 and has yet tp be destroyed. Zummar, Iraq.