Civilians who had remained in west Mosul during the battle to retake the city, lined up for an aid distribution in the Mamun neighbourhood. Iraq - March 2017
Some people fled the recently liberated Sukar neighbourhood, while others return having crossed a destroyed bridge that connects the area to the rest of the east Mosul. Iraq - January 2017
Civilians who had remained in west Mosul after their area had been liberated begged for food aid at an aid distribution in the Mamun neighbourhood of the city. Iraq - March 2017
Zaid Khalid Mohammed, 16, was buried beside his father Khalid Mohammed Qassim, 42, at the cemetery in the Gogjali suburb of Mosul. They were killed earlier that day when an bomb laid by ISIS militants went off near their home in east Mosul. Iraq - Jan 2017
Iraqi special forces soldiers moved cautiously on an early morning operation to clear the last remaining areas held by ISIS in the Jadidah neighbourhood of west Mosul. Iraq - March 2017
An Iraqi special forces soldier fired on ISIS positions from a rooftop on the frontline in the Shuhada neighbourhood of west Mosul. Iraq - March 2017
Iraqi special forces soldiers surveyed the aftermath of an ISIS suicide car bomb that managed to reach their lines in the Andalus neighbourhood of east Mosul. Iraq - January 2017
A man collapsed out of an armoured vehicle at a first aid station in east Mosul, holding the body of his younger brother who was killed moments earlier in an ISIS mortar attack. Iraq - November 2016
Iraqi special forces soldiers cleared a half-built Mosque in the Thaqafa neighbourhood of east Mosul, shortly after the area was liberated from ISIS militants. Iraq - January 2017
An Iraqi special forces soldier looked out over the river Tigris, towards ISIS controlled west Mosul from the balcony of a room at the Nineveh International Hotel. Iraq - January 2017
Vehicles blocking the edge of the frontline in the Rifai neighbourhood of west Mosul were seen through the window of a humvee as a sandstorm moved in. Iraq - May 2017
Iraqi men who had fled ISIS controlled areas in Hawija, waited to be questioned about possible links to the terror group by Kurdish security personnel at a base near Kirkuk. Iraq - December 2016
Civilians fled heavy clashes between Iraqi special forces and ISIS militants early in the morning in the Jadidah neighbourhood of west Mosul. Iraq - March 2017
A bombed out vehicle lay beside a massive crater after fierce fighting between Iraqi special forces and ISIS militants in the Jadidah neighbourhood of west Mosul. Iraq - March 2017
Civilians fleeing heavy clashes between Iraqi special forces and ISIS militants in the Jadidah neighbourhood of west Mosul walked past the body of an ISIS fighter killed in a airstrike the night before. Iraq - March 2017
An ISIS flag was found hanging above a bed in a house used by militants up until the day before in the Shuhada neighbourhood of west Mosul. Iraq - March 2017
A man called out to his relatives moments after he discovered that his father had been killed by an ISIS suicide car bomb in the Jadidah neighbourhood of west Mosul. Iraq - March 2017
Iraqi special forces soldiers rested as they assembled early in the morning before going on an offensive to clear the Saha neighbourhood of west Mosul. Iraq - May 2017
An Iraqi special forces soldier fired on ISIS militants from a defensive position on the edge of the Rifai neighbourhood of west Mosul. Iraq - May 2017
A woman screamed out in horror shortly after her son was killed in an ISIS mortar attack in the Jadidah neighbourhood of west Mosul. Iraq - March 2017
A homing pigeon and a canary bird rescued by Iraqi special forces soldiers sat on the couch of a deserted house in the Rifai neighbourhood of west Mosul. Iraq - May 2017
An Iraqi special forces soldier walked through a destroyed street in the Old City district of west Mosul, while smoke from an nearby airstrike settled in the background. Iraq - July 2017
A woman and young boy collapsed from fatigue after fleeing the last area of Mosul’s Old City still controlled by ISIS. Iraq - July 2017
An unidentified young boy who was carried out of the last ISIS controlled area in the Old City, by a man suspected of being a militant, was cared for by Iraqi Special Forces soldiers. Iraq - July 2017
Iraqi special forces soldiers carried away an injured ISIS fighter who had surrendered, moments after they dragged him out of the basement of a destroyed building in the Maydan area of Mosul’s Old City. Iraq - July 2017
The heavily destroyed Maydan area of Mosul’s Old City, where the last ISIS militants were corralled and eventually killed by Iraqi security forces. Iraq - July 2017
Displaced men waited to be questioned at a security screening centre near Kirkuk in Kurdish controlled Iraq after fleeing the last remaining ISIS held areas in the province of Hawija. Iraq - October 2017
The day before the city was announced liberated from ISIS, SDF soldiers sat in a destroyed building they used as a base in west Raqqa. Syria - Oct 2017
25-year-old Mohammed Sheko fed his SDF comrade, 18-year-old Salah Al Raqawi, at a hospital for injured fighters in Kurdish controlled Syria. The men were both injured in the previous week while fighting ISIS in Raqqa. Syria - Oct 2017
SDF comrades and family members mourned during the burial of Adhem Sheko, who was killed fighting in Raqqa, at the martyrs cemetery in Kobane. Syria - October 2017
An SDF soldier rested at a base near the frontline in east Raqqa just days before the city fell. Syria - October 2017
Iraqi Civil Defence workers searched for the bodies of five of Leyla Hasan Said’s relatives in the Old City of Mosul. They were killed by what she said were multiple airstrikes targeting ISIS militants who were positioned nearby. Iraq - September 2017
Iraqi civil defense workers recovered the body of Sondus Mazaal’s mother who was killed by an airstrike in Mosul’s Old City in June. Iraq - September 2017
Fouad Mohammed Sadi wept as he helped to lower the bodies of his wife, daughter and two brothers into the ground. They were all killed in separate air and artillery strikes during the final stages of the fight for Mosul and their bodies had remained buried under the rubble for months afterwards. Iraq - September 2017
Mosul Swat troops searched the compound of a man identified as being a member of ISIS who they were seeking to arrest during a late night raid in the village of Badush, northwest of Mosul. Iraq - May 2018
Suspected ISIS members who were detained by Mosul Swat forces in a series of late night raids were unloaded back at the unit’s base in east Mosul. Iraq - May 2018
A group of volunteers worked to collect unclaimed bodies, most of them suspected of being those of ISIS members, from the ruins of the Old City district where the militants made their last stand. Iraq - February 2018
Young boys cooled off in the summer heat in the Euphrates river, under a destroyed bridge in Raqqa. The river borders the South of the city and the only two bridges are still destroyed after being bombed during the operation to defeat ISIS. Syria - June 2018
Mohammed Haj Ali was busy in the run up to the Muslim holiday of Eid, cutting the hair of some of the few residents who had returned to his neighbourhood in Raqqa. Syria - June 2018
Less than 6 months after the end of the battle for Mosul, young men smoked hookah pipes and hung out at the recently opened Freedom Cafe in the west of the city. Iraq - December 2017
Students chatted and walked through a partially repaired section of Mosul university during lunch break. The prestigious university was badly damaged in the fight to retake the city from ISIS but students began to return as soon as the city was liberated. Iraq - December 2017
A group of teenage girls enjoyed a chair ride at a small amusement park in Raqqa on the first day of the Muslim holiday of Eid. Syria - June 2018
Eissa al-Ali and his family returned home to their heavily destroyed neighbourhood in Raqqa after years of being displaced. The battle to liberate the city from ISIS destroyed 80% of building and likely killed thousands of civilians. Syria - June 2018
Nadhira Rasoul looked on as Iraqi Civil Defence workers dug out the bodies of her sister and niece from her house in the Old City of Mosul, where they were killed by an airstrike in June 2017. Iraq - September 2017