Sunset colors in Jonnah's city.

Awful.

..and extremely painful, Have you Franz heard my whining ?

Ja.

Awful destruction just to gain unrestricted power, not possible at peace time. Its hard to believe that people are capable of such atrocities. Very sad! Even worth most people outside the region don't give a sh....

Devastation, lives ruined, innocent victims of contests to see who wins the contest for political power . . . all captured so the whole world can see. But the world is blind and - much worse - mute. Jonah is not at rest until the fighting ceases permanently.

It's important to keep this images in front of as many eyes as possible, especially those who do not live with anything resembling this reality that so much of your (and other) regions experience daily. Keep it up!

Andrew, Michael, and Gregory thank you so very much for showing your support to humanity irrespective of colors and faiths.

I can remember you saying you would need to stop posting as the conflict was approaching Mosul. I and I'm sure many others were relieved when you resumed your PN activity. Good luck for the future........................GC.

Thank toy so much Gerald, Yes ,but I am not who used to be, my city was destroyed, so many fine people were lost whom used to be more than friends, and the future, if there is any, became so much darker, ambiguous, and with a very little hope which so far away.

Appreciate your visit and comment.

SS.

this photo is so powerful....impossible to imagine what you have gone through - at loss for words.

I can tell, Three years in a big prison (the city under ISIS), four months under air raids, mortars and artillery bombardment during the approach of the army, and eight days ( freeing the neighborhood ) the whole family in an area that got some four walls surrounding it from all directions, the bathroom, and even this safe place got its windows broken over our head due to near bombardment sounds( air raids ) and the bullets sounds hit the surrounding wall. Overall , two mortars hit the house, one in the bedroom (mine) and one the fence and garden, no glass ever left unbroken in the whole house.

Now you got to imagine, I live in the safe area( I face nothing at all) at the left side of Tigris ,what you are seeing is the right side of Tigris, the freeing of their neighborhoods took four months.