Escape from Qaim
Before he escaped the self-proclaimed Islamic State, Jassim Mohammed witnessed the group's brutal rule, plunder, and commerce.
Iraqi soldiers patrol the Iraq-Syria border point, Albu Kamal, in Qaim, on July 22, 2012. It was in the hands of the rebel Free Syrian Army, but less than two years later the so-called Islamic State (IS) group had firm control. (AZHAR SHALLAL/AFP/GettyImages)
ERBIL - Soon after the self-proclaimed Islamic State (IS) took control of his home town of Qaim, Jassim Mohammed knew he and his family would have to flee.
A 53-year-old worker at the Qaim Phosphate Plant in Anbar province, near the Syrian border, Mohammed and his family escaped in October after living for nearly two years under the IS group's rule. (Mohammed declined to have his picture taken.)
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