Peter van Agtmael A Dwekh Nawsha Assyrian Christian militia unit at the front lines tries to resettle Kamala Karim Shaya to a house near their barracks. Three elderly women have refused to leave the front line town (...)
and live in separate houses. Two were convinced to resettle until the violence calms. Telskuf, Iraq. 2015. © Peter van Agtmael | Magnum Photos
Peter van Agtmael LEBANON. Beirut. 2015. A Christian family mourns the death of funeral of Benjamin Ishaya, an 87-year-old Assyrian Christian who’d arrived in Lebanon as part of a group of refugees from Syria and al (...)
legedly died of complications after he was hit in Syria by a passing motorbike of extremist militants. © Peter van Agtmael | Magnum Photos
Peter van Agtmael LEBANON. Beirut. 2015. A Christian family mourns the death of funeral of Benjamin Ishaya, an 87-year-old Assyrian Christian who’d arrived in Lebanon as part of a group of refugees from Syria and al (...)
legedly died of complications after he was hit in Syria by a passing motorbike of extremist militants. © Peter van Agtmael | Magnum Photos
Peter van Agtmael LEBANON. Beirut. 2015. A Christian family mourns the death of funeral of Benjamin Ishaya, an 87-year-old Assyrian Christian who’d arrived in Lebanon as part of a group of refugees from Syria and al (...)
legedly died of complications after he was hit in Syria by a passing motorbike of extremist militants. © Peter van Agtmael | Magnum Photos
Peter van Agtmael IRAQ. Dohuk. 2015. General Abboush Sakania (with gun) is a former high-ranking general in Saddam Hussein’s army and an Assyrian Christian who fled Qaraqosh last summer. He is now in charge of milit (...)
ary affairs for one of the three main Assyrian militias, the Nineveh Plains Protection Unit, a 350-member force based in the Kurdish city of Dohuk.
An NPU (an Assyrian Christian political party) training course for senior Non Commission Officers of their small militia. The training is being conducted by 'James,' a former U.S. Army soldier and veteran of Iraq and Afghanistan under the auspices of the Sons of Liberty. © Peter van Agtmael | Magnum Photos
Peter van Agtmael An NPU (an Assyrian Christian political party) training course for the senior Non Commission Officers of their small militia. The training is being conducted by 'James,' a former U.S. Army soldier (...)
and veteran of Iraq and Afghanistan under the auspices of the Sons of Liberty. This training exercise concentrates on house clearance and uses airsoft guns. Dohuk, Iraq. 2015. © Peter van Agtmael | Magnum Photos
Peter van Agtmael IRAQ. Dohuk. 2015. An NPU (an Assyrian Christian political party) training course for the senior Non Commission Officers of their small militia. The training is being conducted by 'James,' a forme (...)
r U.S. Army soldier and veteran of Iraq and Afghanistan under the auspices of the Sons of Liberty. This training exercise concentrates on house clearance and uses airsoft guns. © Peter van Agtmael | Magnum Photos
Peter van Agtmael An NPU (an Assyrian Christian political party) training course for the senior Non Commission Officers of their small militia. The training is being conducted by 'James,' a former U.S. Army soldier (...)
and veteran of Iraq and Afghanistan under the auspices of the Sons of Liberty. This training exercise concentrates on house clearance and uses airsoft guns. Matthew van Dyke is pictured peering out. Dohuk, IRaq. 2015. © Peter van Agtmael | Magnum Photos
Peter van Agtmael An NPU (an Assyrian Christian political party) training course for the senior Non Commission Officers of their small militia. The training is being conducted by 'James,' a former U.S. Army soldier (...)
and veteran of Iraq and Afghanistan under the auspices of the Sons of Liberty. This training exercise concentrates on house clearance and uses airsoft guns. Dohuk, Iraq. 2015. © Peter van Agtmael | Magnum Photos