Claire Thomas

Medics from around the world have been pro­vid­ing care to those in­jured in Iraq’s on­go­ing con­flict.

The courts of­fer as­sis­tance in ob­tain­ing es­sen­tial civ­il iden­ti­fi­ca­tion doc­u­ments for fam­i­lies who have fled ISIL.

Fire­fight­ers are still work­ing to ex­tin­guish the oil wells torched by ISIL as the group re­treat­ed from Qay­yara.

Pales­tini­ans in Iraq face an un­cer­tain fu­ture with lit­tle hope of es­cap­ing life as state­less refugees.

Iraqi forces re­took Qaraqosh from ISIL late last year, but for res­i­dents fi­nal­ly re­turn­ing home, the or­deal con­tin­ues.

Amid a heavy Is­raeli mil­i­tary pres­ence, al-Ibrahimiya kinder­garten of­fers chil­dren a safe space ‘just to be kids’.