Juan Carlos

Photographer
      
Future Fighters
Location: San Salvador, El Salvador
Nationality: USA/El Salvador
Biography: I am a freelance photographer, born in El Salvador, Central America but immigrated to the United States during the mid-1980's. I have developed a vocation as a photojournalist and over the course of my career I have documented human rights... MORE
Private Story
Future Fighters
Copyright Juan Carlos . 2024
Date of Work Nov 2016 - Nov 2016
Updated Sep 2017
Topics Children, Combat, Documentary, Editorial, Environment, Military, Photography, Photojournalism, Portraiture, Violence, War, Youth

The town of Al-Qayyarah was invaded by the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL, also known as ISIS) in June 2014, this area is rich in oil, having more than 60 wells. Approximately 20,000 residents with a predominantly Sunni population  and lived under the ISIS's rule for more than two years two years. Six months after the first phase of the Operation Conquest or Operation Fatah was launched the city was liberated by the Iraqi troops supported by U.S.-led coalition but as Daesh, as is known in the Arab world, fighters retreated they blew up more than a dozen oil wells some in the middle of a residential areas causing a major environmental and health disaster. Inside of the this residential area where one of the oil well kept burning months after there was a group of kids playing with petrol residue  all over their body and clothes, the were pretending to be Iraqi soldiers fighting against the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant. 

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