Yazidi refugee kids near Dohuk (Northern Iraq), 2017. They had to leave their homes to flee from ISIS.
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Yazidi refugees in Sharya, 2017. They fled from ISIS from their home in the Iraqi Sinjar region.
Havraz from Sulaymaniyah in Iraqi Kurdistan came to Germany in early 2016 at the height of the refugee crisis. He says that he wanted to escape some problems he had at home. He managed to make it to Greece by boat and reached Germany through the Balkan route. He then…
A Kurdish student couple on a school field trip. By a waterfall near Amadiya.
“We have never been living in peace. The Iraqi authorities always fought against us, Saddam wanted to kill us, then Islamists like ISIS tried to annihilate us … I had to rebuild our house several times”. Ahmed (name changed) grew up during the Iraqi-Kurdish wars in the 1960s and 70s…