Institute for Young Revolutionaries in Terbespe. Everyday, PYD (the Democratic Union Party of Syria), an affiliate of PKK (Kurdistan Workers’ Party), gathers young people from the Rojava area and t (...)
eaches them its ideology. Many of these teenagers will soon be drafted into YPJ and YPG armies. Terbespe, Rojava, Syria. 2015. © Newsha Tavakolian / Magnum Photos
People in the local market of Terbespe, passing by a moral wall-painting with embedded pictures of female martyrs of the YPJ next to the portrait of Abdullah Ocalan. The words above Ocalan’s image (...)
translate as “the path towards the sun.” Terbespe, Rojava, Syria. © Newsha Tavakolian / Magnum Photos
Raymond Hubbard was injured in Baghdad on July 4, 2006, when a Russian-made 122mm rocket crashed twenty feet from the guard post where he was stationed. “After I was hit, I was in a coma for almost (...)
a month. I was having a series of massive hallucinations,” Hubbard said. Darien, Wisconsin. USA. 2007. © Peter van Agtmael / Magnum Photos
Soldiers from the 10th Mountain Division wait for a flight at the end of a sixteen-month tour of duty. As they arrived at the airfield from their outpost, a sagging black body bag was carried past (...)
them to a waiting helicopter, the body of a soldier killed from their replacement unit. Jalalabad, Afghanistan. 2007. © Peter van Agtmael / Magnum Photos
Institute for Young Revolutionaries in Terbespe. Everyday, PYD (the Democratic Union Party of Syria), an affiliate of PKK (Kurdistan Workers’ Party), gathers young people from the Rojava area and t (...)
eaches them its ideology. Many of these teenagers will soon be drafted into YPJ and YPG armies. Terbespe, Rojava, Syria. 2015. © Newsha Tavakolian / Magnum Photos