Iraq-Syria Wall
Andrea DiCenzo01A member of the SDF pauses in a destroyed building in Hajin.
Andrea DiCenzo02The air in both countries is tinged with metal, the essence of bullets and exposed rebar that will linger for some while, whether or not there is a wall, whether or not ISIS departs or remains.
Andrea DiCenzo03Rashé Darbasiyah and two female fighters with the YPJ, or Women’s Protection Units within the SDF, relax between tactical movements within ten miles of the border. “Right now the fighting has stopped,” Darbasiyah says.
Andrea DiCenzo04Artillery or airstrike craters in Hajin, Syria, stipple the road to the Islamic State’s final redoubt on the banks of the Euphrates River.
Andrea DiCenzo05Civilians who have returned to the village of Hajin. The village was liberated from Islamic State rule in earlier this year.
06[Women gather rocks from an abandoned neighbor’s home](https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/44214/preludes-56d22338dc954) to build a new wall around their courtyard.
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