ナショナルジオグラフィックのインスタグラム(natgeo) - 3月9日 22時30分

photo by @yuri.kozyrev | words by @neilshea13 — One more set before battle. Or after. In between. Black smoke bends over the frontline and lays ash on the bedrolls and bunkhouses of the Kurdish soldiers. In the cook shacks kettles boil, tea is brewed, and out along the edges of camp war dogs roam for scraps with litters of sand-colored pups following. Cigarettes, bullets, flip-flops, games. All afternoon the cars roll in from Kirkuk, sedans and taxis, dropping soldiers. They bring old weapons and good cheer, big mustaches. Tiny Korans in their pockets. They hug and salute and are quick to give the names of their children, their sons. Their reasons. One man named his boy Muhammad, after the Prophet. Another is called Carbine, after the rifle. Across the line, little more than one bullet away, ISIS fighters wait in captured houses. Once they might have played too, maybe football, but now they hide during daylight for fear of airstrikes. And anyway such games are probably haram, forbidden, as is joy, save for the savage kind that comes from killing. I will not pretend there are two sides to this story. I will not say these causes might be variously interpreted. Whoever comes to the desert sees. The ground is scored by treads of tanks and trucks. A great earthen wall keeps ISIS out and behind it men still work the oil fields. Later, middle of night, there will be gunfire. The father of Carbine will hurry past, wide-eyed and carrying an armload of rockets. Farther down the line, eastward, the sky will brighten with bomb-light. For now, there’s a spike, a block, a burst of laughter. Here is war as we know it. A ball spinning away across the sand.
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This is the first post in an Instagram series on Kurdistan, which follows our feature article in the March 2016 issue of @ナショナルジオグラフィック magazine. For the next week we’ll be sharing stories from our continuing coverage of life, hope, and conflict in northern Iraq, as the Kurds battle ISIS and struggle to preserve their young democracy. Join us @neilshea13 and @yuri.kozyrev for more from The Other Iraq.
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