Tags / aftermath of seige

A human skeleton emerge from the ground in a dump at the outskirsts of Qyyara used as mass grave by I.S.

A child with his book the first school day.

Women sign up their children at the school for the first day.

A teacher and her numerous pupils.

Children in the streets of Qayyarah. Despite de reopening of the school, many children must work to support the family.

Qayyara's young people.

An Iraqi soldier on the back of a vehicle

People waiting the drinking water distribution by a N.G.O.

Children with box of drinking water

A human bone in a dump at the outskirsts of Qyyara, this dump was used as mass grave by I.S.

The bulldozer move the burning oil on the surface.

Guardians at the checkpoint on the road to the burning oil wells.

In the afternoon the children playing on the streets, no many children have toys but some of them have these toy weapon, replicas of American M16.

I.S. destroyed the bridge on the road to Qayyara

A guy in front of the sports hall destroyed

Portrait of two brothers who lost their job, now they come to take bricks in the rubble to sell at the black market

Portrait of two brothers who lost their job, now they come to take bricks in the rubble to sell at the black market

The steaming crater of an extinct fire of an oil well set on fire by I.S.

Children near the crater of an extinct fire of an oil well.

An armed guardian on the road to a burning oil well.

Firefighters with the fire hoses in front of the burning.

A firefighter going up to a bulldozer for the exchange with his colleague.

Firefighters at the work.

The bulldozer move the burning oil on the surface.

Firefighters after the job light up a cigarette.

Photos from Homs in March 2014 show the destruction of Syria's third largest city toward the end of the three-year siege (May 2011 - May 2014).