Iraqi Kurdistan
Peshmerga (meaning "those who face death" in Kurdish) fighters atop their mountain positions along the Shinirwe front line with Ansar al-Islam. Ansar al-Islam are Islamic extremists who have been linked with Al-Qaeda. They control a mountainous enclave along the border with Iran from where they carry out numerous attacks and assassination attempts in Iraqi Kurdistan...Halabja, Iraqi Kurdistan. 20/11/2002...Photo © J.B. Russell
