These pictures offer a rare glimpse into the front-line battle against ISIS.

Veteran shutterbug Younes Mohammad recently spent three days with Kurdish fighters desperately trying to hold their position in Iraq.

While these Peshmerga combatants only hold a tiny portion of Sinjar, Iraq, they’ve been hunkered down at their fortified base and have been able to identify ISIS positions for coalition airstrikes, according to Barcroft Media.

Mohammad captured the images of the fighters — armed with AK-47s and shoulder-mounted rocket launchers — in daily battles with ISIS and dust storms.