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An overview of a tent city near Zakhu established as part of Operation Provide Comfort, an Allied effort to aid Kurdish refugees who fled the forces of Saddam Hussein in northern Iraq

A tent city sprawls across the plains on the outskirts of Zakhu. The encampment was established as part of Operation Provide Comfort, an Allied effort to aid Kurdish refugees who fled the forces of Saddam Hussein in northern Iraq

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 refugees help erect military tents 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 tent city sprawls across the plains on the outskirts of Zakhu. The encampment was established as part of Operation Provide Comfort, an Allied effort to aid Kurdish refugees who fled the forces of Saddam Hussein in northern Iraq

Kurdish refugees gather around stacks of supplies delivered to their tent city as part of Operation Provide Comfort, an Allied effort to aid the 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

The tents of Kurdish refugees line a valley near Zakhu during Operation Provide Comfort, an Allied effort to aid Kurdish refugees who fled from the forces of Saddam Hussein in northern Iraq

Kurdish refugees gather to collect purified water at their tent city in Zakhu. The camp was established as part of Operation Provide Comfort, an Allied effort to aid Kurdish refugees who fled the forces of Saddam Hussein in northern Iraq

An aerial view of a tent city near Zakhu. The city was established to shelter Kurdish refugees during Operation Provide Comfort, an Allied effort to aid the refugees who fled the forces of Saddam Hussein in northern Iraq

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Subject Operation/Series: PROVIDE COMFORT

Country: Iraq (IRQ)

Scene Camera Operator: JOC Marjie Shaw

Release Status: Released to Public

Combined Military Service Digital Photographic Files

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25/04/1991
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label_outline Explore Joc Marjie Shaw, Zakhu, Hussein

Kurdish men wait to begin a tour of a refugee camp near Zakhu, Iraq. U.S. and allied troops established the camp as part of Operation Provide Comfort, a multinational 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

A UH-60 Black Hawk (Blackhawk) helicopter patrols over a tent city near Zakhu that was established for Kurdish refugees. The encampment was erected as part of Operation Provide Comfort, an Allied effort to aid Kurds who fled the forces of Saddam Hussein in northern Iraq

U.S. Navy LT. CMDR. Jeff Weitz walks holding hands with two children who live in a tent city set up by Combined Joint Task Force-Horn of Africa (CJTF-HOA) in Dire Dawa, Ethiopia, after a severe flooding in Dire Dawa, on Dec. 2, 2006. CJTF-HOA is a unit of U.S. Central Command, which conducts operations and training to assist partner nations to combat terrorism. (U.S. Air Force photo by SENIOR AIRMAN Sarah Stegman) (Released)

Rwandans at the Kitali refugee camp in Goma. The refugees came to Goma after a civil war erupted in their country. An estimated 2000 refugees die daily because of the cholera epidemic. The situation improves as fresh water provided by US military teams reach the camps that house up to 1.2 million refugees

Two members of the Army's 284th Military Police Company search for unexploded ordnance along a dirt road. U.S. and coalition troops are in Zakhu as part of Operation Provide Comfort, a multinational effort to aid Kurdish refugees in northern Iraq and southern Turkey

An M998 High-Mobility Multipurpose Wheeled Vehicle (HMMWV) carrying U.S. military personnel enters Zakhu, part of convoy arriving to assist Kurdish refugees at a nerby tent city. The encampment was established as part of Operation Provide Comfort, an Allied effort to assist refugees who fled the forces of Saddam Hussein in northern Iraq

Bizara, a Kurdish refugee child, visits a well set up in a tent city near Zakhu. The site was established as part of Operation Provide Comfort, an Allied effort to aid the refugees who fled the forces of Saddam Hussein in northern Iraq

Konik One, a refugee camp located right outside the

Local residents gather to watch as Marines from an explosive ordnance disposal (EOD) team attached to Marine Expeditionary Unit (MEU) Service Support Group 24 (MSSG-24) as they load ordnance into the back of an M998 High-Mobility Multipurpose Wheeled Vehicle (HMMWV). The disposal of discarded Iraqi munitions is being conducted in conjunction with Operation Provide Comfort, a multinational effort to aid the refugees in northern Iraq and southern Turkey

CPL Darryl F. Fuller, Marine Service Support Group 24 (MSSG-24), mans an M-2 .50-caliber machine gun from his post atop an M-934 5-ton cargo truck as a convoy of Marines and Navy medical personnel enters Zakhu. The convoy has arrived to assist Kurdish refugees inhabiting a tent city set up as part of Operation Provide Comfort, an Allied effort to aid the refugees who fled the forces of Saddam Hussein in northern Iraq.

U.S. Marines armed with M-16A2 rifles patrol on the outskirts of a tent city near Zakhu that was established for Kurdish refugees. An encampment was erected as part of Operation Provide Comfort, an Allied effort to aid Kurds who fled the forces of Saddam Hussein in northern Iraq

040831-F-9926N-005 (Aug. 31, 2004)US Air Force (USAF), TECH SGT. Zig Sanchez, Civil Engineering Squadron (CES), 3rd Air Expeditionary Group (AEG), guides a bulldozer to level grade inside tent city. Kwang-Ju Air Base (AB), Republic of Korea (KOR). U.S. Air Force photo by STAFF SGT. Steven R. Nabor (RELEASED)

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