A member of Iraqi counterterrorism forces stands guard near Islamic State militant graffiti in Fallujah, Iraq, Monday, June 27, 2016. Thick clouds of black smoke billowed over northwest Fallujah Monday as dozens of homes continued to burn a day after the city was declared “fully liberated” from the Islamic State group. Iraqi special forces Lt. Gen. Abdel Wahab al-Saadi who led the operation to retake the city, said that IS militants torched hundreds of houses in Fallujah's north and west as they fled Sunday, just as the fighters did in many of the city's other neighborhoods over the course of the operation. (AP Photo/Hadi Mizban)
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