Ismael Adnan

Thou­sands of wor­ship­pers light can­dles at Lal­ish Tem­ple to cel­e­brate the start of the New Year.

Ra­madan in the north­ern Iraqi city of Mo­sul has a flavour dif­fer­ent from any­where else in the coun­try.

The Iraqi city’s Chris­t­ian com­mu­ni­ty was dri­ven out by an ISIL oc­cu­pa­tion and suc­ces­sive waves of vi­o­lence.