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ALEPPO: SEPTEMBER 2012: A mother clings to her child as a plane circles above her house in East Aleppo. Minutes ago the plane had dropped a bomb on a building across the street, and shot up a car outside her door. Fortunately the bomb failed to explode. An ambulance will arrive shortly and take them to a different area.
MOSUL, IRAQ - NOVEMBER 4 2016: Sergeant Majid holds a rocket propelled grenade as his Humvee approaches the neighbourhood of Tahrir and Zahara, formerly named after Saddam Hussein, on the north eastern edge of Mosul, on November 4th, 2016, in Mosul Iraq. Iraqi forces made further gains on the east of the city as the offensive to retake Mosul from ISIS reached its 19th day.
Civilians fleeing from ISIL's last remaining territory in Syria after two days of heavy fighting wait at a gathering point where before being taken to internment camp, near Baghuz, in north eastern Syria, on March 5, 2019.
By the start of February 2019, the Syrian Defence Force (SDF), backed by the international coalition against ISIS, had fought ISIS into a final pocket between the Euphrates River and the Iraqi desert. The coalition had predicted the presence of some two thousand fighters and their families and a short fight to finish them off, but the fighting wouldn’t end for almost two months, in which tens of thousands of civilians, fighters and their families fled ISIS’s final enclave under terrible conditions.
Candid picture taken during a press visit to a screening point outside Baghouz, organised by the SDF.
BEIRUT - 18 OCTOBER 2019: Protestors unload tyres from a car which they'll burn to block a highway in Beirut, Lebanon during unrest sparked by economic difficulties.
Streets were blocked en-masse across Lebanon as the country woke up to the second day of what would become a wave of popular unrest against the Lebanese state.