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In this Monday, Sept. 11, 2017 photo, water buffalo wade in the Chabaish marsh in Nasiriyah, about 200 miles (320 kilometers) southeast of Baghdad, Iraq. Iraq’s southern marshes, a lush remnant of the cradle of civilization, were reborn after the 2003 fall of Saddam Hussein when residents dismantled dams he had built a decade earlier to drain the area in order to root out Shiite rebels. (AP Photo/Nabil al-Jurani)

In this Monday, Sept. 11, 2017 photo, water buffalo wade in the Chabaish marsh in Nasiriyah, about 200 miles (320 kilometers) southeast of Baghdad, Iraq. Iraq’s southern marshes, a lush remnant of the cradle of civilization, were reborn after the 2003 fall of Saddam Hussein when residents dismantled dams he had built a decade earlier to drain the area in order to root out Shiite rebels. (AP Photo/Nabil al-Jurani)

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