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Forty-year-old Thatha and her four sons escaped ISIS-controlled Hawija, Iraq, to Kirkuk in June.  Recent military operations to retake ISIS-controlled areas have already uprooted 240,000 people from their homes in cities like Fallujah and the areas south of Mosul. Some 3 million Iraqis remain trapped, living under ISIS’s brutal rule.

Meet Marwan, one of tens of thousands of people who've fled the battle for Mosul. Under ISIS, he was forced to grow a beard. This is his first shave in two years.  

For two long years, women and girls in Mosul were kept inside by ISIS, away from the outside world – and each other. After escaping to camps east of the city, women say that what they need most is space to be together.

For over two years many of Mosul’s 1.5 million residents struggled to survive under ISIS’s harsh regime without an income. Meet one of the hundreds of families receiving emergency cash relief from the ̽»¨¾«Ñ¡.

Thousands of people are fleeing their homes as the Iraqi army, Kurdish Peshmerga and coalition forces fight to retake Mosul — Iraq's second largest city — from the ISIS militant group. The ̽»¨¾«Ñ¡ is providing emergency cash relief and other support to displaced families.

A Yazidi family from Iraq, one of the many ethnic minorities persecuted by ISIS, was preparing for a joyful reunion in the land of the free when a Trump Administration refugee ban changed everything. Here is their story.