In this Wednesday Oct 26, 2016 photo, Bakr Mahmoud Mahdi, a presenter at the private Nineveh TV talks to callers on his live studio show, in Irbil, Iraq. Mahdi prepares to go live with a show called “Freedom Studio,” which he says allows victims of war to vent. Television stations in Iraq have been hosting call-in shows that offer a rare line of communication between Mosul residents who have been displaced and those still residing in the Islamic State-held city. But as Iraqi forces push closer to the city and the militants viciously enforce a ban on phones and the internet, voices from inside Mosul are falling silent. (AP Photo/Fay Abuelgasim)
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Hegseth joins veterans, generals to mark 80th anniversary of battle of Iwo Jima
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