Photographer based in Cairo, Egypt >> Shawn Baldwin

Iraq

An officer looks on as Iraqi Kurdish Peshmerga's, part of an Iraqi Anti-Terror Brigade based around the Kurdish capital of Suleimaniya, train at the Saraw (military) Camp outside of the city of Halabja in northern Iraq. Kurds swept into second place in Iraq's historic elections, well-placed to secure a major parliamentary presence and top government jobs after decades of struggle against successive Sunni regimes. February 2005.
An officer looks on as Iraqi Kurdish Peshmerga's, part of an Iraqi Anti-Terror Brigade based around the Kurdish capital of Suleimaniya, train at the Saraw (military) Camp outside of the city of Halabja in northern Iraq. Kurds swept into second place in Iraq's historic elections, well-placed to secure a major parliamentary presence and top government jobs after decades of struggle against successive Sunni regimes. February 2005.