Syrian Democratic Forces’ (SDF) fighters tried to shoot down an explosive laden ISIS drone that was trying to target their position on the outskirts of the village of Baghuz in Deir al-Zour, south east Syria.
Women and children, suspected of being the wives and family members of ISIS militants, who fled the last ISIS-held area in south east Syria, waited to be screened by Kurdish and coalition forces at a mustering point in the desert near the village of Baghuz.
6-year-old Mohammed Ameri was treated for multiple injuries, by volunteer medics with the organisation known as the ‘Free Burma Rangers’, after his mother managed to get him out of the last ISIS-held village of Baghuz in Deir al-Zour, south east Syria.
Men who had fled the last area of ISIS control around the village of Baghuz, waited to be questioned about their links to the terror group by American and Kurdish intelligence officers at a screening point in the desert 25km north of the frontline.
A group of shell shocked women and children, suspected of being the wives and family members of ISIS militants, who had fled the last area of ISIS control around the village of Baghuz, were crammed onto buses by Kurdish security forces at a screening point in the desert before being transported to secure camps further north.
Abdulrahman Salam changed the dressing on his father Salam Abid's badly wounded face at a screening point for people who had fled the last ISIS controlled village in eastern Syria.
A Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) vehicle drove towards the frontline of fighting, during the final weeks of the operation to defeat ISIS, as plumes of smoke from artillery strikes rose in the distance.
During a lull in fighting, Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) soldiers monitored ISIS positions in the village of Baghuz, just days before the operation re-started.
A convoy of trucks carrying hundreds of exhausted, dust covered people, many of them Syrian and Iraqi civilians, who had been evacuated from the last remaining patch of ISIS territory, stopped on the way to secure detention camps further north.
A young boy glared back as the convoy he was travelling in, full of hundreds of people who had been evacuated from the last area of ISIS control in south east Syria, drove through the desert in Deir al-Zour to detention camps further north.
Two young girls languished inside the foreigners section for the wives and children of ISIS members at al-Hol detention camp in north east Syria. At its peak more than eighty thousand people were held in al-Hol, with more than ten thousand of that number being foreigners, that is not from Syria or Iraq.
Women and children from all over the world, many of them suspected of being the wives and family members of ISIS militants, who had escaped the final months of the caliphate in south east Syria, moved around in the foreigners section at al-Hol detention camp in Kurdish controlled northern Syria.
A malnourished child who had escaped the last ISIS-held area in south east Syria, stood in the foreigners section at al-Hol detention camp in Kurdish controlled northern Syria.
Two men walked through a heavily destroyed neighbourhood in Raqqa, where only four families had returned to live since the cities liberation from ISIS more than a year before. The war to rid Iraq and Syria of ISIS came at a terrible cost.
A portrait of a martyred Kurdish fighter, who died during the fight against ISIS, sat amidst a sea of graves at the martyrs cemetery in Kobani, northern Syria. The US backed Syrian democratic forces released a statement claiming that they had lost more than 11,000 fighters over the course of the nearly five year battle to defeat ISIS.
A young Kurdish SDF fighter was visited by his girlfriend for the first time, after he had been badly burnt during a battle with Turkish forces on the Syrian-Turkish border several days before. Initially she was unable to enter the room because she was so horrified by his injuries. Eventually she was coaxed into the room by a nurse and managed to hold his hand a have a short conversation.
Men accused of being ISIS members, who were captured during the final months of fighting in south east Syria in early 2019, were crammed inside a large cell at a prison controlled by Kurdish forces in north east Syria.
Young boys of various ethnicities, stood for a picture in the crowded, dark cell where they were being held at a prison for suspected ISIS members in north east Syria.