One source of the Arab-Kurd conflict (among many). An oil rig in northeastern Syria’s oil-rich Hasakah governorate where mainly Arab opposition groups and the Kurdish militia have been fighting since mid-July.

Things are grim in Syria but the fighting between the mainly Arab rebels and the Kurds is, to my mind, perhaps the grimmest news of all. This isn’t a full-fledged ethnic conflict yet but it could soon develop into one. On this picture, taken a week ago, a Kurdish sniper of the YPG militia aims his…

There is perhaps something naturally tacky about the imagery of liberation struggles, and nowhere so much as in the Middle East. Still, this Kurdish family in the northeast of Syria definitely digs Öcalan.

Never leave a golfclub behind. A contractor stands by the helicopter landing zone at a forward operating base in Ghazni province, Afghanistan.