Gallery: Conflict Photographer's Best Pictures Are Some of Humanity's Worst Moments
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*Rebels gather for the funeral of a fellow fighter in the rebel-held Salahedin district. Aleppo, Syria. March 21, 2013. Photo: Moises Saman/MAGNUM*
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*A man marching with a group of pro-Muslim Brotherhood demonstrators in the Maadi district of Cairo walks past graffiti that shows a hand raising four fingers, a symbol of the Rabaa massacre. Cairo, Egypt. August 18, 2013. Photo: Moises Saman/MAGNUM*
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*Searching for survivors among the rubble of a residential building targeted by a regime airstrike in the rebel-held Al-Sukri district of Aleppo, Syria. March 19, 2013. Photo: Moises Saman/MAGNUM*
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*A protestor stands by a burning car during clashes near Tahrir Square, Cairo, Egypt. November 20, 2011. Photo: Moises Saman/MAGNUM*
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*A wounded Pro-Muslim Brotherhood protestor covered in an Egyptian flag inside the Fatah mosque in the Ramses district of Cairo, Egypt. August 16, 2013. Photo: Moises Saman/MAGNUM*
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*Fatma Al-Krama is surrounded by family members as she sits next to the body of her dead son, 25-year-old Habib Al-Krama, tortured and killed by pro-Assad militias in the city of Aleppo. Habib's body was found dumped on a city street and brought back to his village for burial. Marea, Aleppo Province, Syria. July 23, 2012. Photo: Moises Saman/MAGNUM*
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*Fellow demonstrators carry the lifeless body of a man fatally wounded during clashes between pro-Muslim Brotherhood demonstrators and Egyptian security forces in the Ramses district of Cairo, Egypt. August 16, 2013. Photo: Moises Saman/MAGNUM*
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*A man selling pretzels climbs the wall of a destroyed house damaged during clashes between youth protestors and Egyptian police near Tahrir Square on the second anniversary of the January 25th revolution. Cairo, Egypt. January 25, 2013. Photo: Moises Saman/MAGNUM*
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*Clashes between youth protestors and Egyptian police near Tahrir Square on the second anniversary of the January 25th revolution. Cairo, Egypt. January 25, 2013. Photo: Moises Saman/MAGNUM*
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*Protestors throw rocks at Egyptian security forces protecting the area near the US embassy in Cairo, Egypt. September 14, 2012. Photo: Moises Saman/MAGNUM*
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*A nurse and her patient inside a Muslim Brotherhood operated hospital in the Shobra district of Cairo, Egypt. January 2012. Photo: Moises Saman/MAGNUM*
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*A Syrian boy inside the Al-Muhamra tent settlement in north Lebanon. June 2013. Photo: Moises Saman/MAGNUM*
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*Thin mattresses and pillows used as beds inside a one-room apartment that houses an extended family of seven Syrian refugees in East Amman, Jordan. June 2013. Photo: Moises Saman/MAGNUM*
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*A villager upset at the government complaints to Afghan President Hamid Karzai during a visit to Marja after it was retaken by U.S. and Afghan forces from the Taliban, Marja, Helmad Province, Afghanistan. March 7, 2010. Photo: Moises Saman/MAGNUM*
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*Afghan soldiers carry a wounded comrade into an American medevac helicopter after a Taliban ambush near the village of Tsunek, Kunar Province, Afghanistan. March 2010. Photo: Moises Saman/MAGNUM*
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*Marja's new district chief Hagi Zahir (far left-top) meets with local elders in Marja's district center. Marja, Helmand Province, Afghanistan. March 2010. Photo: Moises Saman/MAGNUM*
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*A German soldier burns a flare at a temporary campsite in the desert of Kunduz Province, Afghanistan. October 2009. Photo: Moises Saman/MAGNUM*
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*A boy covers his eyes during a sandstorm in the southern city of Kandahar, Afghanistan. March 2005. Photo: Moises Saman/MAGNUM*
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*Omar Ben Brahim Ahmad, 73, lost sight in his right eye from a mining accident in 1987 while working inside the underground phosphate mines on the outskirts of Metlaoui, Gafsa Province, Tunisia. February 24, 2013. Photo: Moises Saman/MAGNUM*
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*A boy covers his head with a plastic bag during a rain storm, Jalalabad, Afghanistan. March 30, 2004. Photo: Moises Saman/MAGNUM*
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*An Afghan girl recovers from burns to hear face caused by a kerosene explosion inside her home. Kerosene, a dangerous combustible, remains a cheap source of heating for poor Afghan families. Gardez, Afghanistan. May 22, 2005. Photo: Moises Saman/MAGNUM*
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*Congolese women living at the Buhimba camp for Internally displaced people outside Goma, Democratic Republic of Congo. September 2009. Photo: Moises Saman/MAGNUM*
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*An Iraqi man walks by the scene of an attack on U.S. Army Humvees that caused several American casualties in the Al-Waziriyah neighborhood of Baghdad, Iraq. Monday, April 26, 2004. Photo: Moises Saman/MAGNUM*
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*A man tries to tame an Arabian horse looted from one of Saddam Hussein's palaces in Baghdad, now being kept in the backyard of a house in the Sadr City district of Baghdad, Iraq. July 2004. Photo: Moises Saman/MAGNUM*
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*Iraqis search for a suspected American pilot that was reported shot down over the Tigris River in Baghdad during the first days of the war. Baghdad, Iraq. April 2003. Photo: Moises Saman/MAGNUM*
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*Funeral procession for Essam Ali Atta, 23, a petty criminal that was killed by prison guards while serving a two-year term in Cairo's high-security Tora prison following his conviction in a military tribunal earlier this year for an apparently petty crime. Essam was reportedly attacked by prison guards after trying to smuggle a mobile phone sim card into his cell. Cairo, Egypt. October 28, 2011. Photo: Moises Saman/MAGNUM*
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*A Qaddafi supporter holds a portrait of the Libyan leader as fireworks go up in the background on a soccer field in a suburb of Zawiyah where government minders took a group of foreign journalists to attend a staged celebration. Libya, March 9, 2011. Photo: Moises Saman/MAGNUM*
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*A Libyan Army tank belonging to the Khamis Brigade destroyed by NATO bombing on the outskirts of Tripoli, Libya. Kilometer 27. August 24, 2011. Photo: Moises Saman/MAGNUM*
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*A meeting room in an underground bunker used as a command center by Qaddafi security forces in Tripoli, Libya. September 16, 2011. Photo: Moises Saman/MAGNUM*
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*Mikele is an Eritrean survivor of torture camps in the Sinai. He poses for a photograph at a safe house in Cairo, covering his face with a cross to hide his identity, and displaying multiple torture marks on his upper body. Cairo, Egypt. May 2, 2013. Photo: Moises Saman/MAGNUM*
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