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A tent city spreads out over the fields outside Zakhu during Operation Provide Comfort. The settlement is providing shelter for Kurdish refugees who fled the forces of Saddam Hussein in northern Iraq
Kurdish refugee children prepare to take containers to a well at their tent city near Zakhu. The camp was established as part of Operation Provide Comfort, an Allied effort to aid refugees who fled the forces of Saddam Hussein in northern Iraq
Marines pass by a sick call tent established for Kurdish refugees as part of Operation Provide Comfort, an Allied effort to aid the refugees who fled the forces of Saddam Hussein in northern Iraq. A smoke ring rises above as confiscated Iraqi ordnance is exploded in the area
Soldiers, journalist and Kurds gather on a hillside for a briefing at a refugee camp near Zakhu, Iraq. U.S. and allied troops established the camp as part of Operation Provide Comfort, a multination effort to aid the thousands of Kurds who fled their homes after fighting broke out between Kurdish groups and Iraqi government forces following Operation Desert Storm
Tents fill a clearing at one of the refugee camps established near Turkey's border with Iraq by Kurds who fled their homes in northern Iraq to escape Iraqi government forces. Troops from the U.S. and other nations have come to the camps to distribute aid and prepare the refugees for a move to organized camps within Iraq as part of Operation Provide Comfort
Kurdish refugee children play on a Soviet-built ZPU-4 anti-aircraft gun which was abandoned by Iraqi forces during Operation Desert Storm. The children live in a nearby camp established as part of Operation Provide Comfort, an Allied effort to aid the refugees who fled the forces of Saddam Hussein in northern Iraq
A Kurdish woman makes bread in a tent city set up by Allied forces as part of Operation Provide Comfort, an effort to aid the refugees who fled the forces of Saddam Hussein in northern Iraq
U.S. Army UH-60 Black Hawk helicopters patrol over a Marine camp near Zakhu. The Marines assisted in setting up a nearby tent city on the Turkey-Iraq border as part of Operation Provide Comfort, an Allied effort to aid Kurdish refugees who fled from the forces of Saddam Hussein in northern Iraq
Kurdish refugees assist a member of U.S. Navy Beachmaster Unit 2 in dragging a tent during the establishment of a tent city near Zakhu. The encampment is being erected as part of Operation Provide Comfort, an Allied effort to aid Kurds who fled the forces of Saddam Hussein in northern Iraq
A cloud of smoke rises over a tent city for Kurdish refugees as explosive ordnance disposal (EOD) team members detonate Iraqi ordnance found near the camp. U.S. military personnel in the area are taking part in Operation Provide Comfort, an Allied effort to aid the refugees who fled from the forces of Saddam Hussein in northern Iraq
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Subject Operation/Series: PROVIDE COMFORT
Base: Zakhu
Country: Iraq(IRQ)
Scene Camera Operator: LTJG Don Savage
Release Status: Released to Public
Combined Military Service Digital Photographic Files
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Date
01/04/1991
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The U.S. National Archives
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