"After a long drive I reached the oil #fire in Qayyarah and I gave myself only a very limited amount of time to take pictures because of concerns about security. I took a few frames then this boy cycled past, stopped, and looked at me curiously. He hung around for a while then cycled away. Like other children in the area, his face was dirty with soot from the fire." - carl_court _ Getty Images news photographer Carl Court has been on the ground covering the conflict in #Iraq as joint forces battle to retake the city of #Mosul from #ISIS. | October 21, 2016 | #GettyImagesNews #PhotographerTakeover