Mahdi Mahmoud, a shepherd from the village of Qabir al-Abid, is gagged and suspended by his wrists from the ceiling inside an Iraqi Emergency Response Division reconnaissance branch near his home as his interrogation begins on Nov. 23, 2016. Star readers voted 76 per cent in support of publishing this photo by Ali Arkady when he was embedded with U.S.-trained Iraqi special forces, as it depicts hard truths about terror and torture.
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