SAM TARLING

Kurdish Peshmerga drive a tank that was abandoned by the Iraqi army toward Kirkuk in Northern Iraq, near the current front line between ISIS and Kurdish forces near the town of Hwaija, on June 12, 2014. [Sam tarling for the Telegraph]

A young girl from Tal Affar stands in the construction site she is now staying in with many other families that have been displaced by fighting, in Sinjar, Iraq, on June 17, 2014. The area has been flooded with displaced families after some 50,000 people fled Tal Affar, which was taken over by Sunni militants two days ago. [Sam Tarling for the Telegraph]

Civilians who fled their homes in Sinjar after the town was captured by the Islamic State are taught how to assemble an AK-47 rifle by Kurdish PYG fighters at a training camp in the autonomous Kurdish region of northern Syria on August 15, 2014. The PYG hope that training the displaced Sinjaris will allow them to keep hold of the strategic Mt Sinjar, and possibly allow them to retake their homes. [Sam Tarling for The Telegraph]

Displaced Yazidis pass through Faysh Kharbur in Iraqi Kurdistan on on August 9, 2014. Tens of thousands of Yazidis, members of an obscure Zoroastrianism religion, fled the town of Sinjar in northern Iraq after it was taken by Islamic militant fighters a week ago and have made their way on foot to here. Some hid out on Mt Sinjar, others walked to the Kurdish area of Syria. Tens of thousands of refugees have passed here in the last six days. ISIS threatened them with death if they did not convert to Islam. Currently many more Yazidis are sheltering on Mount Sinjar amid extremely harsh conditions. [Sam Tarling/ The Telegraph]

Tents are reflected in flood water at an informal Syrian refugee camp in Minieh, North Lebanon, on 13 january 2013. [Sam Tarling] Picture taken on 18 July, 2013.

Wahak, 13, carries her 6-month old brother Khaled in a makeshift tented community in Lebanon's Bekaa valley that has become home to some 150 families who have fled the conflict in neighboring Syria. Wahak arrived here with her family 6 months ago. The families here live with little protection from the elements in homes made of plastic sheeting and scavenged materials, such as burlap sacks and old billboard banners. Despite the cold already setting in, many of the children still lack proper winter clothes and footwear to adequately protect them from the cold. Nov 21 2012 [Sam Tarling] Picture taken on 18 July, 2013.

A woman reacts as a syrian air force jet bombs the streets surrounding her house in the neighbourhood of Ahadarea, Aleppo, Syria on Thursday 13 September [Sam Tarling]

The body of a child is pulled from rubble after an aerial bombardment gin the neighbourhood of Ahadarea, Aleppo, Syria, on Tuesday 11 September [Sam Tarling]

A member of the Free Syrian Army enjoys an ice cream on the road from Azaz to Aleppo, Syria, on Monday 10th of September [Sam Tarling]

A member of the Free Syrian Army sends a message from his phone while sitting on top of a destroyed tank in the town of Azaz, Syria, on Monday 10th of September [Sam Tarling]

A palestinian protester demonstrating for his right to return reacts after Israeli soldiers opened fire on demonstrators on the Lebanese border at Maroun ar Ras on Sunday 15 May 2011. Israeli soldiers opened fire on the protesters, killing between 5 and 10 throughout the day [Sam Tarling]