Ed Kashi Marvin Wilson, 94, owns the only house left standing on the south side of town after a tornado nearly wiped out the small town of Spencer, South Dakota in 1998.
Ed Kashi His village destroyed in 1988, this Pesh Merga now lives on a guerilla base with his countrymen.
Ed Kashi In a makeshift court in Zakho, two boys plead their case before a judge (holding the knife). Such courts were created after the Gulf War of 1991, which was part of the Kurds' reclaiming authority over northern Iraq.
Ed Kashi This Kurdish family in Diyarbakir, Turkey, lost two of its children to confrontations with the Turkish army. Their son and daughter both belonged to the Kurdistan Workers Party, or PKK, which seeks to establish a Kurdish state.
Ed Kashi Girls in front of their makeshift tent in the Ziveh refugee camp in Iran. The camp was created in the 1970's to house Kurdish refugees from Iraqi persecution.
