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FILE - In this Aug. 4, 2011 file photo, refugees walk amongst huts at a refugee camp in Dadaab, Kenya. Earlier in 2017, some Somali refugees whose resettlement in the United States was stopped by President Donald Trump's executive order were sent back to the Dadaab refugee camp in northern Kenya. A federal judge in Hawaii further weakened the already-diluted travel ban in a ruling Thursday, July 13, 2017, by vastly expanding the list of U.S. family relationships that visitors from six Muslim-majority countries, Syria, Sudan, Somalia, Libya, Iran and Yemen, can use to get into the country. (AP Photo/Schalk van Zuydam, File)

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In this July 9, 2017 photo, destroyed buildings sit on the Old City of Mosul, Iraq. Iraq’s U.S.-backed forces succeeded in wresting Mosul from the Islamic State group but at the cost of enormous destruction. The nearly 9-month fight culminated in a crescendo of devastation _ the blasting of the historic Old City to root out the militants’ final pockets.(AP Photo/Felipe Dana)

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In this July 11, 2017 photo, people walk through a damaged neighborhood as the sun sets on the west side of Mosul, Iraq. Iraq’s U.S.-backed forces succeeded in wresting Mosul from the Islamic State group but at the cost of enormous destruction. The nearly 9-month fight culminated in a crescendo of devastation _ the blasting of the historic Old City to root out the militants’ final pockets. (AP Photo/Felipe Dana)

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In this July 13, 2017 photo, Saddam Salih Ahmed, who was injured when his house was hit by an explosion, sits on his damaged street on the west side of Mosul, Iraq. Iraq’s U.S.-backed forces succeeded in wresting Mosul from the Islamic State group but at the cost of enormous destruction. The nearly 9-month fight culminated in a crescendo of devastation _ the blasting of the historic Old City to root out the militants’ final pockets. (AP Photo/Felipe Dana)

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In this July 4, 2017 photo, fleeing Iraqi civilians walk past the heavily damaged al-Nuri mosque during fights between Iraqi security forces and Islamic State militants in the Old City of Mosul, Iraq. Iraq’s U.S.-backed forces succeeded in wresting Mosul from the Islamic State group but at the cost of enormous destruction. The nearly 9-month fight culminated in a crescendo of devastation _ the blasting of the historic Old City to root out the militants’ final pockets. (AP Photo/Felipe Dana)

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In this July 4, 2017 photo, the heavily damaged al-Nuri mosque sits as smoke from explosions billow from the Old City of Mosul, Iraq. Iraq’s U.S.-backed forces succeeded in wresting Mosul from the Islamic State group but at the cost of enormous destruction. The nearly 9-month fight culminated in a crescendo of devastation _ the blasting of the historic Old City to root out the militants’ final pockets. (AP Photo/Felipe Dana)

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In this July 13, 2017 photo, Ali Mahdi, 9, poses for a photo while playing on his damaged street on the west side of Mosul, Iraq. Iraq’s U.S.-backed forces succeeded in wresting Mosul from the Islamic State group but at the cost of enormous destruction. The nearly 9-month fight culminated in a crescendo of devastation _ the blasting of the historic Old City to root out the militants’ final pockets. (AP Photo/Felipe Dana)

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In this July 11, 2017 photo, damaged buildings are lit by the setting sun on the west side of Mosul, Iraq. Iraq’s U.S.-backed forces succeeded in wresting Mosul from the Islamic State group but at the cost of enormous destruction. The nearly 9-month fight culminated in a crescendo of devastation _ the blasting of the historic Old City to root out the militants’ final pockets. (AP Photo/Felipe Dana)

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In this July 13, 2017 photo, members of the Salih Ahmed family stand on the roof of their partially damaged house in the west side of Mosul, Iraq. Iraq’s U.S.-backed forces succeeded in wresting Mosul from the Islamic State group but at the cost of enormous destruction. The nearly 9-month fight culminated in a crescendo of devastation _ the blasting of the historic Old City to root out the militants’ final pockets.(AP Photo/Felipe Dana)

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In this July 13, 2017 photo, Samaher Saddam cleans the entrance of her damaged house in the west side of Mosul, Iraq. The 9-month fight to defeat the Islamic State group in Mosul ended in a crescendo of devastation: bombardment that damaged or destroyed a third of its historic Old City in just three weeks. The cost of uprooting the militants was the destruction of large swaths of Iraq’s second largest city, leaving a population that is displaced, exhausted and potentially embittered if there is no reconstruction. (AP Photo/Felipe Dana)

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In this July 11, 2017 photo, destroyed buildings are framed by the window of a damaged hotel on the west side of Mosul, Iraq. Iraq’s U.S.-backed forces succeeded in wresting Mosul from the Islamic State group but at the cost of enormous destruction. The nearly 9-month fight culminated in a crescendo of devastation _ the blasting of the historic Old City to root out the militants’ final pockets. (AP Photo/Felipe Dana)

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In this July 4, 2017 photo, Iraqi civilians flee fighting between Iraqi forces and Islamic State militants through the rubble of destroyed houses in the Old City of Mosul, Iraq. The population of the city, once numbering 3 million, has been left battered and exhausted, with hundreds of thousands displaced. (AP Photo/Felipe Dana)

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In this July 11, 2017 photo, the sun sets behind destroyed buildings in the west side of Mosul, Iraq. The 9-month fight to defeat the Islamic State group in Mosul ended in a crescendo of devastation: bombardment that damaged or destroyed a third of its historic Old City in just three weeks. The cost of uprooting the militants was the destruction of large swaths of Iraq’s second largest city, leaving a population that is displaced, exhausted and potentially embittered if there is no reconstruction. (AP Photo/Felipe Dana)

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Bella Preister, left, of Omaha, Neb., hugs her father, Maj. Jeremy Preister, as he steps off a bus to a welcoming ceremony, Thursday, July 13, 2017, in Lincoln, Neb. About 90 Nebraska Army National Guard soldiers, members of the 1st Infantry Division Main Command Post-Operational Detachment, met their families for the first time after spending the last 9 months deployed in Iraq. (AP Photo/Nati Harnik)

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Nebraska Gov. Pete Ricketts greets Neb. Army National Guard soldiers as they get off a bus to a welcoming ceremony in Lincoln, Neb., Thursday, July 13, 2017. About 90 Nebraska Army National Guard soldiers, members of the 1st Infantry Division Main Command Post-Operational Detachment, met their families for the first time after spending the last 9 months deployed in Iraq. (AP Photo/Nati Harnik)

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Capt. Steve Preston tries to get re-acquainted with his son Tommy as his wife Amber looks on, at a welcoming ceremony in Lincoln, Neb., Thursday, July 13, 2017, for about 90 Nebraska Army National Guard soldiers, members of the 1st Infantry Division Main Command Post-Operational Detachment, who had met their families for the first time after spending the last 9 months deployed in Iraq. (AP Photo/Nati Harnik)

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First Lt. Kevin Rose, right, gets help carrying his gear from his wife Paula and sons Noah, left, and Caiden, second right, following a welcoming ceremony in Lincoln, Neb., Thursday, July 13, 2017. About 90 Nebraska Army National Guard soldiers, members of the 1st Infantry Division Main Command Post-Operational Detachment, met their families for the first time after spending the last 9 months deployed in Iraq. (AP Photo/Nati Harnik)

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Teagan Quinn, 3, sits between her mother Alisa Quinn and father Sgt. Taylor Quinn, all from Loup City, Neb., during a welcoming ceremony in Lincoln, Neb., Thursday, July 13, 2017, for about 90 Nebraska Army National Guard soldiers, members of the 1st Infantry Division Main Command Post-Operational Detachment, who met their families for the first time after spending the last 9 months deployed in Iraq. (AP Photo/Nati Harnik)

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Capt. Steve Preston walks with his children Molly, right, Emily, left, and Tommy, second left, as his wife Amber walks behind right, following a welcoming ceremony in Lincoln, Neb., Thursday, July 13, 2017, for about 90 Nebraska Army National Guard soldiers, members of the 1st Infantry Division Main Command Post-Operational Detachment, who had met their families for the first time after spending the last 9 months deployed in Iraq. (AP Photo/Nati Harnik)

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In this Thursday, July 6, 2017 photo, Tarkan Ecebalin right, walks in his late son Tolga's former home in Istanbul, decorated with photos from the July 15, 2016 botched coup attempt. The father turned the modest house into a museum honouring his child, who was 27 when he was killed during the failed military coup. (AP Photo/Lefteris Pitarakis)