View of a Peshmerga outpost at the frontline in Bashika, around ten miles to the outskirts of Mosul, Iraqi Kurdistan, May 2016. (Manu Brabo/MEMO)
A Peshmerga soldier gets ready for his watch in an outpost in Bashika, May 2016. (Manu Brabo/MEMO)
A Kurdish Peshmerga fighter is seen reflected in a mirror while praying in Bashika, May 2016. (Manu Brabo/MEMO)
Peshmerga soldiers from the PAK (Iran) train at their positions at the frontline in Hawiya, about ten miles from Kirkuk, Iraqi Kurdistan, May 2016. (Manu Brabo/MEMO)
Members of Peshmerga special units, know as Task Force Black, stand at position behind a concrete wall during clashes between Kurdish and Shia militants in the town of Tuz Khourmatu, Iraqi Kurdistan, April 2016. (Manu Brabo/MEMO)
Hazel, a young inhabitant who escaped his village, which has been under ISIS control. Kurdish soldiers help him to enter the Peshmerga positions near Makhmour, Iraqi Kurdistan, April 2016. (Manu Brabo/MEMO)
Mohammed, a young man who fled the ISIS-held village of Nasr, is helped into a pickup truck. Makhmour, Iraqi Kurdistan, April 2016. (Manu Brabo/MEMO)