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Distro - Rojava & Bashur: After Islamic State 

Moises Saman 

Magnum photographer Moises Saman visited Iraqi Kurdistan, known as “Bashur”, or southern Kurdistan to Kurds, and to Kurdish-controlled parts of northern Syria, collectively known to Kurds as Rojava, or western Kurdistan, to document the latest phase of the Kurds’ battle against the Islamic State. In Rojava, he traveled to Kobane, where six months ago the main Kurdish group in Syria, the YPG, drove IS out in a battle that quickly attained epic proportions. Most of Kobane was reduced to rubble by coalition airstrikes and the intense fighting, and today remains firmly in YPG hands but almost entirely... 

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Kobane, Syria. August 7, 2015. 

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Kobane, Syria. August 8, 2015. 

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Kobane, Syria. August 6, 2015. 

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Tal Abyad, Syria. August 8, 2015.
Men seek shade under a palm... 

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Kobane, Syria. August 8, 2015. 

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Ranya, Iraq. August 4, 2015. 

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Serikaniyeh, Syria. August 5, 2015. 

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Zakho, Iraq. August 4, 2015. 

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Kobane, Syria. August 6, 2015. 

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Kobane, Syria. August 8, 2015.
A painting remains hanging in... 

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Kobane, Syria. August 8, 2015. 

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Kobane, Syria. August 8, 2015. 

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Kobane, Syria. August 8, 2015. 

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Kobane, Syria. August 8, 2015. 

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Tal Abyad, Syria. August 8, 2015. 

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Kobane, Syria. August 7, 2015. 

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Sarrin, Syria. August 9, 2015.
A YPG fighter prepares to take... 

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SYRIA. Kobane. August 7, 2015.
A man sleeps in a hospital bed... 

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Sarrin, Syria. August 9, 2015. 

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Sarrin, Syria. August 9, 2015. 

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Kobane, Syria. August 6, 2015.
A man stands at the entrance to... 

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Kobane, Syria. August 8, 2015. 

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Kobane, Syria. August 8, 2015. 

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Kobane, Syria. August 6, 2015. 

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Sarrin, Syria. August 9, 2015. 

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Zergele, Iraq. August 1, 2015. 

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Zergele, Iraq. August 1, 2015. 

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Qandil Mountains, Iraq. August 4, 2015. 

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Qandil Mountains, Iraq. July 30, 2015. 

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Dohuk, Iraq. August 3, 2015. 

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Sarrin, Syria. August 9, 2015. 

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Sarrin, Syria. August 9, 2015.
A YPG fighter sits on the eastern... 

Moises Saman 2015

Sarrin, Syria. August 9, 2015.
A YPG fighter walks up a hill... 

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Sarrin, Syria. August 9, 2015. 

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Kobane, Syria. August 6, 2015. 

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Sarrin, Syria. August 9, 2015.
A fighter affiliated with the... 

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Ranya, Iraq. August 4, 2015. 
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