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Civilians walk past while Iraqi special forces inspect frontline defenses in the eastern section of Mosul, Iraq, Thursday, Dec. 29, 2016. Iraqi troops backed by U.S.-led airstrikes pushed deeper into eastern Mosul on Thursday in a multi-pronged assault after a two-week lull in the operation to retake the Islamic State-held city. (AP Photo/Hamza Hendawi)
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Iraqi army and special forces commanders gather to discuss battle plans in the eastern section of Mosul, Iraq, Thursday, Dec. 29, 2016. Iraqi troops backed by U.S.-led airstrikes pushed deeper into eastern Mosul on Thursday in a multi-pronged assault after a two-week lull in the operation to retake the Islamic State-held city. (AP Photo/Hamza Hendawi)
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In this Sunday, Dec. 18, 2016 file photo, a member of the Iraqi Special Forces shoots his machine gun against an Islamic State militant drone n the al-Barid district in Mosul, Iraq. Iraqi forces sitting for weeks on the edges of Mosul have been bolstered by reinforcements and are now ready, along with the elite special forces, to launch a stepped up, three-pronged assault against Islamic State group militants in the city’s eastern sector, ending a two-week lull in the fighting, a top Iraqi general told The Associated Press on Wednesday, Dec. 28, 2016. (AP Photo/Manu Brabo, File)
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An Iraqi boy waits with his father and grandfather to be transferred to a camp near Mosul, Iraq, Monday, Dec. 19, 2016. Hundreds of Iraqis were waiting to undergo a screening by the military outside Mosul on Monday before getting sent to displaced-people’s camps. The civilians, who had just arrived from Mosul, had their identity documents checked against a military database before loaded onto waiting trucks and sent to IDP camps east of the city. Thousands of people try to leave the city each day and the number of displaced now tops 120,000, according to the Iraqi ministry of migration and displacement.(AP Photo/Manu Brabo)
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Displaced Iraqis are reflected in a puddle near Mosul, Iraq, Monday, Dec. 19, 2016. Hundreds of Iraqis were waiting to undergo a screening by the military outside Mosul on Monday before getting sent to displaced-people’s camps. The civilians, who had just arrived from Mosul, had their identity documents checked against a military database before loaded onto waiting trucks and sent to IDP camps east of the city. Thousands of people try to leave the city each day and the number of displaced now tops 120,000, according to the Iraqi ministry of migration and displacement.(AP Photo/Manu Brabo)
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Displaced Iraqis warm themselves by a fire before being transferred to a camp near Mosul, Iraq, Monday, Dec. 19, 2016. Hundreds of Iraqis were waiting to undergo a screening by the military outside Mosul on Monday before getting sent to displaced-people’s camps. The civilians, who had just arrived from Mosul, had their identity documents checked against a military database before loaded onto waiting trucks and sent to IDP camps east of the city. Thousands of people try to leave the city each day and the number of displaced now tops 120,000, according to the Iraqi ministry of migration and displacement.(AP Photo/Manu Brabo)
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In this Sunday, Dec. 18, 2016 photo, Iraqi civilians are seen reflected in puddle made in the hole produced by a bomb in the al-Barid district in Mosul, Iraq. In a part of Mosul that had been reclaimed from the Islamic State group (IS) days ago, Iraqi special forces were attacked on Sunday by drones operated by IS fighters inside the city.(AP Photo/Manu Brabo)
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In this Sunday, Dec. 18, 2016 photo, an Iraqi soldier waves to comrades in a humvee heading to the front line in the al-Barid district in Mosul, Iraq. In a part of Mosul that had been reclaimed from the Islamic State group (IS) days ago, Iraqi special forces were attacked on Sunday by drones operated by IS fighters inside the city.(AP Photo/Manu Brabo)
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This Sunday, Dec. 18, 2016 photo shows a drawing of Mickey Mouse with its face painted over by Islamic States militants on the wall of a kindergarten n the al-Barid district in Mosul, Iraq. In a part of Mosul that had been reclaimed from the Islamic State group (IS) days ago, Iraqi special forces were attacked on Sunday by drones operated by IS fighters inside the city.(AP Photo/Manu Brabo)
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In this Sunday, Dec. 18, 2016 photo, Iraqi children look at the body of a half-buried Islamic State militant while talking to an Iraqi soldier in the al-Barid district in Mosul, Iraq. In a part of Mosul that had been reclaimed from the Islamic State group (IS) days ago, Iraqi special forces were attacked on Sunday by drones operated by IS fighters inside the city.(AP Photo/Manu Brabo)
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In this Sunday, Dec. 18, 2016 photo, a aember of the Iraqi Special Forces shoots his machine gun against an Islamic State militant drone n the al-Barid district in Mosul, Iraq. In a part of Mosul that had been reclaimed from the Islamic State group (IS) days ago, Iraqi special forces were attacked on Sunday by drones operated by IS fighters inside the city.(AP Photo/Manu Brabo)
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People watch as safety workers try to extinguish fire from a burning oil field in Qayara, south of Mosul, Iraq, Thursday, Nov. 3, 2016. A senior military commander says more than 5,000 civilians have been evacuated from newly-retaken eastern parts of the Islamic State group-held city of Mosul and taken to camps. (AP Photo/Felipe Dana)
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EDS NOTE: GRAPHIC CONTENT -- The bodies of two Islamic State militants lay on a street in Gogjali, an eastern district of Mosul, Iraq, Wednesday, Nov. 2, 2016. Iraqi special forces paused their advance in the eastern district of Mosul on Wednesday to clear a neighborhood of any remaining Islamic State militants, killing at least eight while carrying out house-to-house searches. (AP Photo/Marko Drobnjakovic)
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LOOKOUT: Iraqi forces are poised to enter Mosul in an offensive to drive out the Islamic State after sweeping into the city's eastern edge Monday.
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An Iraqi special forces soldier holds a rocket propelled grenade launcher in Bazwaya, some 8 kilometers from the center of Mosul, Iraq, Monday, Oct. 31, 2016. Iraqi special forces stood poised to enter Mosul in an offensive to drive out Islamic State militants after sweeping into the last village on the city's eastern edge Monday while fending off suicide car bombs without losing a soldier. (AP Photo/Marko Drobnjakovic)
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FILE - In this Sunday, Oct. 23, 2016 file photo, youths ride bicycles next to a burning oil well in Qayara, about 31 miles (50 km) south of Mosul, Iraq. The Islamic State group has pioneered brutally innovative tactics and launched diversionary attacks that have shocked its opponents, and now many fear it has more surprises in store as Iraqi forces close in on Mosul. Last week’s assault on the northern city of Kirkuk offers a glimpse at the kind of asymmetrical response it might mount as Iraqi forces close in on Mosul, its last major urban bastion in the country. (AP Photo/Marko Drobnjakovic, File)
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FILE - In this Sunday, Oct. 23, 2016 file photo, youths ride bicycles next to a burning oil well in Qayara, about 31 miles (50 km) south of Mosul, Iraq. The Islamic State group has pioneered brutally innovative tactics and launched diversionary attacks that have shocked its opponents, and now many fear it has more surprises in store as Iraqi forces close in on Mosul. Last weeks assault on the northern city of Kirkuk offers a glimpse at the kind of asymmetrical response it might mount as Iraqi forces close in on Mosul, its last major urban bastion in the country. (AP Photo/Marko Drobnjakovic, File)
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A member of Iraq's elite counterterrorism forces pauses as they advance towards the city of Mosul, Iraq, Thursday, Oct. 20, 2016. Iraq’s special forces, which barreled into a town east of Mosul on Thursday despite a wave of suicide attacks, are the country’s most professional and least sectarian fighting force. Officially known as the Counter Terrorism Service, the troops have played a key role in wresting back towns and cities from IS, and are expected to lead the charge in Mosul. (AP Photo/Khalid Mohammed)
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Iraqi forces are deployed during an offensive to retake Mosul from Islamic State militants outside Mosul, Iraq, Tuesday, Oct. 18, 2016. The pace of operations slowed on Tuesday as Iraqi forces began pushing toward larger villages and encountering civilian populations on the second day of a massive operation to retake the northern Iraqi city of Mosul from the Islamic State group. (AP Photo)
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Smoke rises from Islamic state positions after an airstrike by coalition forces in Mosul, Iraq, Monday, Oct. 17, 2016. Iraqi government and Kurdish forces, backed by U.S.-led coalition air and ground support, launched coordinated military operations early on Monday as the long-awaited fight to wrest the northern city of Mosul from Islamic State fighters got underway.(AP Photo/Khalid Mohammed)
