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Dr Mansour Marouf stands in the door of the morgue in Qayara hospital 35 miles south of Mosul. The hospital receives so many corpses from Mosul, where fighting continues between Iraqi forces and Islamic Statemilitants, that sometimes they do not fit in the morgue and are left in the corridors. (AP Photo/Mstyslav Chernov)
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A medical technician stands next to a dead body outside the refrigerator unit in Qayara hospital 35 miles south of Mosul. The hospital receives so many corpses from Mosul, where fighting continues between Iraqi forcesand Islamic State militants, that sometimes they do not fit in the morgue and are left in the corridors. (AP Photo/Mstyslav Chernov)
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FILE - In this Friday, March 24, 2017, file photo, residents carry the bodies of several people killed during fighting between Iraq security forces and Islamic State militants on the western side of Mosul, Iraq. Iraqis in the northern city of Mosul are still burying their dead after a U.S. airstrike allegedly killed more than 100 people last week, and rights groups are expressing alarm over a recent spike in civilian deaths. Iraqi officials have defended their conduct in the war against the Islamic State group, and their advice to civilians is to shelter in place as U.S.-backed forces seek to drive the extremists from their last urban stronghold in the country (AP Photo/Felipe Dana)
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FILE - In this Friday, March 24, 2017, file photo, residents carry the body of several people killed during fighting between Iraq security forces and Islamic State militants on the western side of Mosul, Iraq. Iraqis in the northern city of Mosul are still burying their dead after a U.S. airstrike allegedly killed more than 100 people last week, and rights groups are expressing alarm over a recent spike in civilian deaths. Iraqi officials have defended their conduct in the war against the Islamic State group, and their advice to civilians is to shelter in place as U.S.-backed forces seek to drive the extremists from their last urban stronghold in the country (AP Photo/Felipe Dana)
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FILE - In this March 2, 2017 file photo, Displaced Iraqis, who fled fighting between Iraqi security forces and Islamic State militants, gather for food at a camp for internally displaced people, in Hamam al-Alil, some 10 kilometers south of Mosul, Iraq. Some 40 square kilometers on the western bank of the Tigris River is the Islamic State group’s last major stand in Iraq. In addition to Mosul’s so-called right bank, IS still controls a handful of small pockets of Iraqi territory and a swath of Syria’s north including the group’s self-proclaimed capital, Raqqa.(AP Photo/ Khalid Mohammed)
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FILE - In this March 1, 2017 file photo, An Iraqi soldier inspects a recently-discovered train tunnel that belonged to the former Baghdad to Mosul line, that was turned it to a training camp for Islamic State fighters, in western Mosul, Iraq. Some 40 square kilometers on the western bank of the Tigris River is the Islamic State group’s last major stand in Iraq. In addition to Mosul’s so-called right bank, IS still controls a handful of small pockets of Iraqi territory and a swath of Syria’s north including the group’s self-proclaimed capital, Raqqa. (AP Photo/Khalid Mohammed, File)
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FILE - In this March 2, 2017 file photo, families flee clashes between Iraqi forces and Islamic State group militants in western Mosul. Some 40 square kilometers on the western bank of the Tigris River is the Islamic State group’s last major stand in Iraq. In addition to Mosul’s so-called right bank, IS still controls a handful of small pockets of Iraqi territory and a swath of Syria’s north including the group’s self-proclaimed capital, Raqqa. (AP Photo/Susannah George, File)
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FILE - In this Nov. 16, 2016 file photo, a car bomb explodes next to Iraqi special forces armored vehicles as they advance towards Islamic State held territory in Mosul, Iraq. Some 40 square kilometers on the western bank of the Tigris River is the Islamic State group’s last major stand in Iraq. In addition to Mosul’s so-called right bank, IS still controls a handful of small pockets of Iraqi territory and a swath of Syria’s north including the group’s self-proclaimed capital, Raqqa. (AP Photo/Felipe Dana, File)
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FILE - In this March 12, 2017 file photo, displaced Iraqis gather by the fence to buy food and supplies from vendors standing outside the newly opened Chamakor camp, east of Mosul, Iraq. Some 40 square kilometers on the western bank of the Tigris River is the Islamic State group’s last major stand in Iraq. In addition to Mosul’s so-called right bank, IS still controls a handful of small pockets of Iraqi territory and a swath of Syria’s north including the group’s self-proclaimed capital, Raqqa.(AP Photo/Felipe Dana, File)
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FILE - In this Feb. 25, 2017 file photo, Iraqi special forces arrest a suspected Islamic State fighter in Mosul, Iraq. Some 40 square kilometers on the western bank of the Tigris River is the Islamic State group’s last major stand in Iraq. In addition to Mosul’s so-called right bank, IS still controls a handful of small pockets of Iraqi territory and a swath of Syria’s north including the group’s self-proclaimed capital, Raqqa. (AP Photo/Khalid Mohammed, File)
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FILE - In this March 7, 2017 file photo, Iraqi federal policemen open the road towards the government complex as Iraqi security forces advance during fighting against Islamic State militants in Dawasa neighborhood in western Mosul, Iraq. Some 40 square kilometers on the western bank of the Tigris River is the Islamic State group’s last major stand in Iraq. In addition to Mosul’s so-called right bank, IS still controls a handful of small pockets of Iraqi territory and a swath of Syria’s north including the group’s self-proclaimed capital, Raqqa. (AP Photo/Khalid Mohammed, File)
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In this March 1, 2017, file photo, an Iraqi soldier inspects a recently discovered train tunnel, adorned with an Islamic State group flag, that belonged to the former Baghdad to Mosul line, that was turned into a training camp for IS fighters, in western Mosul, Iraq. (AP Photo/Khalid Mohammed, File)
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FILE - In this March 9, 2017 file photo, a large cloud of smoke rises during fighting between Iraqi security forces and Islamic State militants as civilians walk toward Iraqi security forces after fleeing their homes on the western side of Mosul, Iraq. Some 40 square kilometers on the western bank of the Tigris River is the Islamic State group’s last major stand in Iraq. In addition to Mosul’s so-called right bank, IS still controls a handful of small pockets of Iraqi territory and a swath of Syria’s north including the group’s self-proclaimed capital, Raqqa. (AP Photo/Khalid Mohammed, File)
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Iraqi federal police inspect the inside of Mosul's heavily damaged museum. Most of the artifacts inside the building appeared to be completely destroyed. The basement level that was the museum's library had been burned. The floors were covered in the ashes of ancient manuscripts, in western Mosul, Iraq, Wednesday, March 8, 2017. (AP Photo/Khalid Mohammed)
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Iraqi federal police inspect the inside of Mosul's heavily damaged museum. Most of the artifacts inside the building appeared to be completely destroyed. The basement level that was the museum's library had been burned. The floors were covered in the ashes of ancient manuscripts, in western Mosul, Iraq, Wednesday, March 8, 2017. (AP Photo/Khalid Mohammed)
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Burned ancient books and manuscripts are seen inside Mosul's heavily damaged museum. Most of the artifacts inside the building appeared to be completely destroyed. The basement level that was the museum's library had been burned. The floors were covered in the ashes of ancient manuscripts, in western Mosul, Iraq, Wednesday, March 8, 2017. (AP Photo/Khalid Mohammed)
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Ancient destroyed artifacts are seen inside Mosul's heavily damaged museum. Most of the artifacts inside the building appeared to be completely destroyed. The basement level that was the museum's library had been burned. The floors were covered in the ashes of ancient manuscripts, in western Mosul, Iraq, Wednesday, March 8, 2017. (AP Photo/Khalid Mohammed)
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Iraqi federal police inspect the inside of Mosul's heavily damaged museum. Most of the artifacts inside the building appeared to be completely destroyed. The basement level that was the museum's library had been burned. The floors were covered in the ashes of ancient manuscripts, in western Mosul, Iraq, Wednesday, March 8, 2017. (AP Photo/Khalid Mohammed)
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Iraqi federal policemen inspect the inside of Mosul's heavily damaged museum. Most of the artifacts inside the building appeared to be completely destroyed. The basement level that was the museum's library had been burned. The floors were covered in the ashes of ancient manuscripts, in western Mosul, Iraq, Wednesday, March 8, 2017. (AP Photo/Khalid Mohammed)
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Ancient destroyed artifacts are seen inside Mosul's heavily damaged museum. Most of the artifacts inside the building appeared to be completely destroyed. The basement level that was the museum's library had been burned. The floors were covered in the ashes of ancient manuscripts, in western Mosul, Iraq, Wednesday, March 8, 2017. (AP Photo/Khalid Mohammed)
