Inside a Syrian oil refinery - in pictures

Portraits and aerial shots provide a stark insight into the life of workers in the rudimentary facility

A worker at a primitive oil refinery poses for a picture at the facility in the town of al-Qahtaniya in Syria's Kurdish-controlled northeastern Hasakah province, near the border with Turkey. All photos: AFPShow less

All photos: AFP

A rudimentary oil refinery in Syria, and the workers who toil there, are the subject of this striking series of images. They were taken in al-Qahtaniyah in the Kurdish-controlled northeastern Hasakah province, near the border with Turkey.