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Mourners carry the coffin of a victim killed by a suicide bomber, during a funeral in Najaf, on June 12th. Photograph by Alaa Al-Marjani/Reuters.
The scenes from Iraq in the past week, since the fall of Mosul to militants associated with the Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham (ISIS), have been ones of sudden violence and abrupt displacement. Forces that have been building for years have become more visible than ever before, yielding an unfolding crisis that Dexter Filkins writes about in this week’s issue of The New Yorker. Here is a slide show of images from a country in turmoil.
