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SINJAR CITY - DESTRUCTION IN LIMBO

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There’s a strange and desolate beauty to Sinjar City. Stuck in limbo since its liberation from ISIS in November 2015, when airstrikes destroyed much of the old town, its rubble strewn streets lie peacefully under the warm spring sunshine. Not much other than sparrows break the silence. Very few members of its original, largely Yezidi, population have moved back. Most prefer to remain in camps on top of Mount Sinjar or further afield. There’s little for them to come back to, and those who do face an almost total lack of amenities and services such as electricity and water, education and healthcare. The risk of arriving to find their home no more than a heap of broken masonry and twisted rebar, all their possessions gone or ruined, is high. It’s been 18 months and literally nothing has been done to rebuild this once bustling city. 

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A lecture theatre damaged during the liberation of Sinjar City from ISIS in November 2015. Iraq, May 2017
Sinjar Town Hall. Iraq, May 2017
Looking up through destroyed floors of Sinjar City Town Hall. This is what airstrike damage looks like. Iraq, May 2017
Sinjar City Town Hall, eighteen months after being hit by an airstrike as the city was liberated from ISIS in a fierce battle...
The main temple of the Yezidi in Sinjar was raised to the ground by ISIS when they invaded the city in August 2014
Flowery PKK graffiti
This is what happens to personal belongings when an airstrike hits. Sinjar City, Iraq, May 2017
A shepherd waiting for his sheep to finish drinking from a spring in the middle of the destroyed old town of Sinjar. Iraq, Ma...
Sheep taking a drink of spring water amid the destruction of Sinjar City Old Town. Iraq, May 2017
The shops are open all right - open to the sky. But there's not much that can be bought in this ghost town of a city. Sinjar,...
Someone's home, Sinjar, Iraq, May 2017
Blackened ruins and piles of rubble are all that remain of much of Sinjar City. Iraq, May 2017
A plastic chair has escaped relatively unscathed on a destroyed street in Sinjar, eighteen months after the city was liberate...
The old town of Sinjar City remains a rubble wasteland eighteen months after the destruction occured during airstrikes as the...
The final frontline still exactly as it was when Sinjar City was liberated from ISIS in November 2014. Iraq, May 2017
The thistles at least are having a field day. Sinjar City, Iraq, May 2017
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