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FILE - In this Feb. 4, 2003 file photo, an electrician works on the roof of a shop in the Northern Iraqi city of Mosul. In the background is the leaning minaret. Iraq’s ministry of defense says IS destroyed the al-Nuri mosque in Mosul and the adjacent iconic leaning minaret when fighters detonated explosives inside the structures late Wednesday night on June 21, 2017. (AP Photo/Jerome Delay, File)
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FILE - This Sept. 25, 1998 file photo shows the tilting al-Hadba minaret in Mosul, Iraq. Iraq’s ministry of defense says IS destroyed the al-Nuri mosque in Mosul and the adjacent iconic leaning minaret when fighters detonated explosives inside the structures late Wednesday night on June 21, 2017. (AP Photo/Jassim Mohammed, File)
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FILE - In this Monday, June 8, 2009 file photo, residents walk past the crooked minaret in a busy market area in Mosul, Iraq. Iraq’s ministry of defense says Islamic State militants destroyed the al-Nuri mosque in Mosul and the adjacent iconic leaning minaret when fighters detonated explosives inside the structures late Wednesday night on June 21, 2017. (AP Photo/Maya Alleruzzo, File)
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FILE -- In this Thursday, May 11, 2017 file photo, a girl sleeps in her father's arms in western Mosul, Iraq, after fleeing from fighting between Iraqi forces and the Islamic State group. Iraq’s fight to retake Mosul from the Islamic State group has been the largest and the longest operation against the extremists in the nearly three years since they overran a third of the country. (AP Photo/Bram Janssen, File)
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FILE -- In this Friday, May 26, 2017 file photo, a child plays among the ruins of a house in western Mosul that was destroyed in a March 17 coalition airstrike that killed more than 100 people. Iraq’s fight to retake Mosul from the Islamic State group has been the largest and the longest operation against the extremists in the nearly three years since they overran a third of the country. (AP Photo/Balint Szlanko, File)
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FILE -- In this Saturday, May 13, 2017 file photo, a displaced family passes an Islamic State militant banner in western Mosul. Iraq’s fight to retake Mosul from the Islamic State group has been the largest and the longest operation against the extremists in the nearly three years since they overran a third of the country. (AP Photo/Bram Janssen, File)
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FILE -- In this May 5, 2017 file photo, destroyed buildings from fighting between Iraqi forces and the Islamic State group are seen in western Mosul. Iraq’s fight to retake Mosul from the Islamic State group has been the largest and the longest operation against the extremists in the nearly three years since they overran a third of the country. (AP Photo/Bram Janssen, File)
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A woman climbs off of a truck after a perilous journey to flee heavy fighting in her neighborhood between Iraqi forces and Islamic State militants, at a processing center for the displaced, in west Mosul, Iraq, Thursday, May 18, 2017.(AP Photo/Maya Alleruzzo)
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A girl with a shaved head and her father cry as the family flees the al-Rifai neighborhood while Iraqi special forces battle Islamic State militants in western Mosul, Iraq, Wednesday, May 17, 2017.(AP Photo/Maya Alleruzzo)
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Brett McGurk, second right, the special presidential envoy for the global coalition against the Islamic State group, sits inside a military helicopter south of Mosul on Monday, May 15, 2017. The senior U.S. official says the fight to retake Mosul from the Islamic State group is approaching its "final stages." (AP Photo/Bram Janssen)
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Brett McGurk, the special presidential envoy for the global coalition against the Islamic State visits a water treatment plant south of Mosul on Monday, May 15, 2017. The senior U.S. official says the fight to retake Mosul from the Islamic State group is approaching its "final stages." (AP Photo/Bram Janssen)
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Brett McGurk, center, the special presidential envoy for the global coalition against the Islamic State visits water treatment plant south of Mosul on Monday, May 15, 2017. The senior U.S. official says the fight to retake Mosul from the Islamic State group is approaching its "final stages." (AP Photo/Bram Janssen)
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A federal police officer puts his machine gun on the edge of the bath in the Hamam Alil spa, south of Mosul, Iraq, Thursday April, 27, 2017. The spa reopened several months ago after the town was liberate from the Islamic State group. Many Iraqi soldiers visit the spa, located half an hour south of Mosul, in between fighting against the Islamic State group for relaxation. (AP Photo/Bram Janssen)
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In this March 23, 2017 photo, American medical volunteers attend to a civilian casualty of the battle to retake Mosul from Islamic State militants, in Bartella, Iraq. Situated on the outskirts of Mosul, the state-of-the-art field clinic was set up last December by Samaritan’s Purse, a Christian aid organization based in Boone, North Carolina. Its volunteer doctors receive those with the gravest injuries from the field clinics inside or at the very edge of Mosul, where casualties are initially treated. (AP Photo/Tomislav Skaro)
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In this March 23, 2017 photo, American medical volunteers attend to a civilian casualty of the battle to retake Mosul from Islamic State militants, at the the Samaritan’s Purse field hospital, in Bartella, Iraq. Situated on the outskirts of Mosul, the state-of-the-art field clinic was set up last December by Samaritan’s Purse, a Christian aid organization based in Boone, North Carolina. Its volunteer doctors receive those with the gravest injuries from the field clinics inside or at the very edge of Mosul, where casualties are initially treated. (AP Photo/Tomislav Skaro)
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In this March 23, 2017 photo, American medical volunteers attend to a civilian casualty of the battle to retake Mosul from Islamic State militants, at the the Samaritan’s Purse field hospital, in Bartella, Iraq. Situated on the outskirts of Mosul, the state-of-the-art field clinic was set up last December by Samaritan’s Purse, a Christian aid organization based in Boone, North Carolina. Its volunteer doctors receive those with the gravest injuries from the field clinics inside or at the very edge of Mosul, where casualties are initially treated. (AP Photo/Tomislav Skaro)
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In this March 23, 2017 photo, American medical volunteers attend to a civilian casualty of the battle to retake Mosul from Islamic State militants, at the the Samaritan’s Purse field hospital, in Bartella, Iraq. Situated on the outskirts of Mosul, the state-of-the-art field clinic was set up last December by Samaritan’s Purse, a Christian aid organization based in Boone, North Carolina. Its volunteer doctors receive those with the gravest injuries from the field clinics inside or at the very edge of Mosul, where casualties are initially treated. (AP Photo/Tomislav Skaro)
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Dr Mansour Marouf of Qayara hospital holds up an X-ray, showing a rifle bullet in the chest cavity, of a man who was injured in the ongoing fighting in Mosul between Iraqi forces and Islamic State militants. Qayara is the only public hospital within a 120-mile radius and struggles with the flow of injured and dead coming in from the battle of Mosul, in addition to its general-care duties. (AP Photo/Mstyslav Chernov)
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Dr Mansour Marouf, middle, stands over a patient in Qayara general hospital south of Mosul. Qayara is the only public hospital within a 120-mile radius and struggles with the flow of injured and dead coming in from the battle of Mosul, in addition to its general-care duties. (AP Photo/Mstyslav Chernov)
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Dr Mansour Marouf talks with a patient's relative as the patient looks on in Qayara general hospital south of Mosul. Qayara is the only public hospital within a 120-mile radius and struggles with the flow of injured and dead coming in from the battle of Mosul, in addition to its general-care duties. (AP Photo/Mstyslav Chernov)
