Fighting back in Sinjar


  • Photographer
    Tracey Shelton
  • Prize
    Honorable Mention
  • Company/Studios
    Freelance
  • Date of Photograph
    January 2015

Kurdish Peshmerga fighters battle with Islamic State militants on the Sinjar frontline in Northern Iraq. Many Yazidi men joined the Kurdish armed forces after the Islamic State overran this Iraqi minority groups homeland executing thousands of men and kidnapping around 5,000 Yazidi women and girls to be used as sex slaves or sold into forced marriages.

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