19 Photos Of Life In A Divided Iraq

Men pose for pictures after joining a Shiite militia in Baghdad's Sadr City on June 14, 2014.

A Shiite militia fighter holds a weapon outside of the window of a Baghdad taxi on June 16, 2014.

An Iraqi Army soldier tries on a new uniform at a store selling military gear in central Baghdad. Kurdish and Shiite militia forces have filled the vacuum left by the defeat of Iraq's armed forces against ISIS last year, raising fears of intractable sectarian fighting.

Outside Baghdad's morgue on June 25, 2014, a grief-stricken Sunni family mourns for a 62-year-old Sunni man executed outside his home in western Baghdad. Taha Ahmed Shabab was shot four times in the head. His family claim that a Shiite militia, Asaib Ahl al-Haq, is responsible.

The body of a man killed by apparent gunshot wounds lies on a slab in the Baghdad morgue on June 25, 2014. Sectarian tensions are running high in the Iraqi capital, following the return of Shiite militias and execution-style killings to Baghdad's streets.

Adam, 23, in his bare room inside Baghdad's nervous Sunni enclave of Adhamiya on June 11, 2014. Adam, like many young Sunni men in the Iraqi capital, is afraid to venture outside his street for fear of being targeted by Shiite militia.

Women prepare to break their fast in Baghdad's Shiite suburb of Kadhimiya on June 14, 2014.

An Arab home ransacked by Kurdish forces in Gwer, Iraq, on Sept. 26, 2014. Gwer, a majority Arab town until a few months ago, has been emptied of its Arab residents and Kurds have refused to allow them to return to their homes.

A female fighter of the PKK (Kurdistan Workers' Party) poses for a portrait in the PKK's mountain stronghold of Qandil in Iraqi Kurdistan on Sept. 28, 2014.

US military personnel seen once more on Al Assad air base in Iraq's western province of Anbar on Dec. 28, 2014, three years after their American comrades withdrew. US forces are back in Iraq, training and advising Iraq's military in its fight against ISIS.

A Kurdish Explosive Ordnance Disposal (EOD) team stop traffic before detonating an improvised explosive device (IED) on the road to Mosul on March 10, 2015. ISIS is using IEDs in staggering numbers that have never been seen before in military history. The bombs are wreaking havoc on local forces fighting ISIS, slowing their advance and causing heavy casualties.

A peshmerga fighter spots a suspicious vehicle on the Kirkuk Mosul road on March 11, 2015.

A peshmerga fighter covers his ears after a Kurdish Explosive Ordnance Disposal (EOD) team detonates a car filled with explosives following the capture of the northern Iraqi town of Mullah Abdullah from ISIS militants on March 11, 2015.

A Shiite militiaman from Iraq's Badr Brigade in Iraq's Anbar province on March 15, 2015.

Families return to Tikrit after it was captured by Shia militia and Iraqi security forces.

Shia militiamen pose for pictures with a captured ISIS flag on the outskirts of the Iraqi city of Tikrit on March 17, 2015.

A Shia militiaman on the outskirts of the Iraqi city of Tikrit on March 17, 2015.

Shia militiamen fire celebratory gunfire on the outskirts of the Iraqi city of Tikrit on March 17, 2015. Shiite militia number around 100,000 across the country and have emerged as the strongest battlefield players, working in close coordination with Tehran.

A Shiite militiaman from Iraq's Rasaaloun brigade in Iraq's Anbar province on March 15, 2015.