Iraqi Kurdistan

In September 2014, as ISIS advanced on northern Iraq, more than 150,000 people fled from Mosul to Zakho in just two weeks, nearly half the town's own population.
Parks and schools became refugee camps overnight. Families arrived with a few clothes and a little food, and began new lives in makeshift tents.

When I visited the camps, children ran straight to my camera.
Perhaps they had already grown used to it. Or perhaps, to them, this was just another move, like changing homes. I could not tell.

The United States had just begun supporting the Peshmerga, and the fighting had eased slightly. For the people there, the crisis was far from over.