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Alice Martins

Alice Martins is a photojournalist whose photographs have appeared in Harper's, the Washington Post and Time.

Salih reports that ISIS “looted all movable objects” from this tunnel at ancient Nineveh.

The Salvation of Mosul

An Iraqi archaeologist braved ISIS snipers and booby-trapped ruins to rescue cultural treasures in the city and nearby legendary Nineveh and Nimrud