A Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) fighter tries to shoot down an explosives-laden IS drone targeting their position in Baghuz, Syria.

Mohammed Ameri (6) is treated for multiple injuries by humanitarian volunteers after his mother managed to flee with him from the IS-held village of Baghuz, Syria. He survived his injuries.

Men who have fled a final area of IS control wait to be questioned near Baghuz, Syria, about their links to the group.

Women and children who have fled one of the last areas of IS control wait on a bus at a screening point near Baghuz, before being taken to a secure camp.

A convoy of trucks drives through the desert in Deir ez-Zour governorate, Syria, carrying people who escaped the battle for the last IS-held village of Baghuz, on their way to secure camps further north.

A woman and child stand at the fence of the foreigner’s section at Al-Hol detention camp, near the Syria-Iraq border, wanting to go to the market in another area of the camp, on 28 March.

Two men walk through a destroyed neighborhood in Raqqa, northern Syria. Very few families returned to live in Raqqa after the city’s liberation from IS.

Ahmed Ibrahim (18), an SDF fighter badly burned in conflict with Turkish forces, is visited by his girlfriend at a hospital in Al-Hasakah, on 20 October. She had at first been unable to enter the room, as she was horrified by his injuries, but a nurse encouraged her to go in to hold Ahmed’s hand and have a short conversation.

Men captured during the final months of fighting and accused of being members of IS are held in a prison controlled by Kurdish forces in northeastern Syria.

Young men and boys of various nationalities, orphaned or separated from their families and suspected of being associated with IS, stand in a prison cell in northeastern Syria.

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