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A U.S. Army armoured vehicle passes by displaced Iraqis, who fled fighting between Iraqi security forces and Islamic State militants, in Bartella, around 19 miles (30 kilometers), from Mosul, Iraq, Saturday, Dec 31, 2016. (AP Photo/ Khalid Mohammed)
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Brig. Gen. Rick Uribe listens during an interview with The Associated Press in Irbil, 217 miles (350 kilometers) north of Baghdad, Iraq, Sunday, Jan. 1, 2017. In the interview Uribe, a senior U.S. military commander in Iraq, expressed confidence in Iraqi forces fighting to recapture the northern city of Mosul from Islamic State militants. Uribe said he agrees with the forecast given by Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi that it would take another three months to liberate Mosul, the last Iraqi urban center still in the hands of the extremist group. (AP Photo/Khalid Mohammed)
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U.S. Army armoured vehicles travel in Bartella, around 19 miles (30 kilometers), from Mosul, Iraq, Saturday, Dec 31, 2016. (AP Photo/ Khalid Mohammed)
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Brig. Gen. Rick Uribe listens during an interview with The Associated Press in Irbil, 217 miles (350 kilometers) north of Baghdad, Iraq, Sunday, Jan. 1, 2017. In the interview Uribe, a senior U.S. military commander in Iraq, expressed confidence in Iraqi forces fighting to recapture the northern city of Mosul from Islamic State militants. Uribe said he agrees with the forecast given by Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi that it would take another three months to liberate Mosul, the last Iraqi urban center still in the hands of the extremist group. (AP Photo/Khalid Mohammed)
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A view of a nightclub by the Bosphorus, which was attacked by a gunman overnight, in Istanbul, on New Year's Day, Sunday, Jan 1, 2017. An assailant believed to have been dressed in a Santa Claus costume and armed with a long-barrelled weapon, opened fire at the nightclub in Istanbul's Ortakoy district during New Year's celebrations, killing dozens of people and wounding dozens of others in what the province's governor described as a terror attack. (AP Photo/Emrah Gurel)
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In this undated image from video distributed on Sunday, Jan. 1, 2017, by North Korean broadcaster KRT, North Korean leader Kim Jong Un delivers a speech in Pyongyang. North Korean leader Kim Jong Un hinted Sunday that Pyongyang may be hoping to ring in the new year with another bang - the test-launch of an ICBM. In his annual New Years address, Kim said that after testing what the North claims was its first H-bomb last year, preparations for launching an intercontinental ballistic missile have reached the final stage. (KRT via AP)
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A clown performs during a New Year's celebration for internally displaced children at the Hassan Sham camp, east of Mosul, Iraq, Saturday, Dec 31, 2016. (AP Photo/ Khalid Mohammed)
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FILE - This undated image released by Disney shows the character Dory, voiced by Ellen DeGeneres, in a scene from the animated movie "Finding Dory." This movie about a forgetful fish, “Captain America: Civil War,” and “Rogue One: A Star Wars Story,” led the North American box office in 2016, which, with an estimated $11.2 billion in earnings to date, has become the highest grossing year of all time _ surpassing last year’s $11.1 billion record. (Pixar/Disney via AP, File)
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ADVANCE FOR WEEKEND EDITIONS - FILE - In this July 9, 2016 file photo, a man protesting the death of Alton Sterling yells at police in front of the Baton Rouge Police Department headquarters, after police arrived in riot gear to clear protesters from the street in Baton Rouge, La. Sterling was shot and killed by police outside a convenience store where he was selling CDs. (AP Photo/Max Becherer, File)
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ADVANCE FOR WEEKEND EDITIONS - FILE - In this July 18, 2016 file photo, Tre Patton, 10, looks at a makeshift memorial at the scene of the shooting of police officers, in Baton Rouge, La. Multiple police officers were killed and wounded Sunday morning in a shooting near a gas station in Baton Rouge, less than two weeks after a black man was shot and killed by police here, sparking nightly protests across the city. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert, File)
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FILE - In this Saturday, Jan. 9, 2016 file photo, a armed man pushes a videographer aside after members of the "3% of Idaho" group, along with several other organizations, arrived at the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge near Burns, Ore. A small, armed group occupied the remote national wildlife refuge in Oregon to protest federal land use policies. (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer)
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FILE - In this Saturday, Jan. 30, 2016 file photo, Syrian government troops fire at Islamic State group positions near Mahin, Syria. As many as half a million people have been killed since the conflict began in 2011 with peaceful protests against the Assad family's four-decade rule. (Alexander Kots/Komsomolskaya Pravda via AP)
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FILE - In this Thursday, Nov. 24, 2016 file photo, tribesmen loyal to Houthi rebels hold their weapons as they chant slogans during a gathering to mobilize more fighters into battlefronts in several Yemeni cities, in Sanaa, Yemen. Yemen, the Arab world's poorest nation, has been embroiled in fighting that pits the Iran-backed Houthis and forces loyal to a former president against the Saudi-backed and internationally recognized government. The Saudi-led coalition has been carrying out airstrikes against the rebels and their allies since March 2015, fearful of Iranian influence spreading across the Arabian Peninsula. (AP Photo/Hani Mohammed)
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Iraqis displaced from Mosul wait on a bus before being transported to an IDP camp, near Bartella, Iraq on Thursday, Dec. 29, 2016. Breaking a two-week lull in fighting, Iraqi troops backed by the U.S.-led coalition's airstrikes and artillery pushed deeper into eastern Mosul on Thursday in a multi-pronged assault against Islamic State militants in the city. (AP Photo/Cengiz Yar)
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Iraqis displaced from Mosul wait aboard trucks for transportation to IDP camps, in near Bartella, Iraq on Thursday, Dec. 29, 2016. Breaking a two-week lull in fighting, Iraqi troops backed by the U.S.-led coalition's airstrikes and artillery pushed deeper into eastern Mosul on Thursday in a multi-pronged assault against Islamic State militants in the city. (AP Photo/Cengiz Yar)
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Iraqis displaced from Mosul load onto trucks for transportation to IDP camps, in near Bartella, Iraq on Thursday, Dec. 29, 2016. Breaking a two-week lull in fighting, Iraqi troops backed by the U.S.-led coalition's airstrikes and artillery pushed deeper into eastern Mosul on Thursday in a multi-pronged assault against Islamic State militants in the city. (AP Photo/Cengiz Yar)
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Iraqis displaced from Mosul load onto buses for transportation to IDP camps, in near Bartella, Iraq on Thursday, Dec. 29, 2016. Breaking a two-week lull in fighting, Iraqi troops backed by the U.S.-led coalition's airstrikes and artillery pushed deeper into eastern Mosul on Thursday in a multi-pronged assault against Islamic State militants in the city. (AP Photo/Cengiz Yar)
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Iraqis displaced from Mosul wait for transportation to IDP camps, near Bartella, Iraq on Thursday, Dec. 29, 2016. Breaking a two-week lull in fighting, Iraqi troops backed by the U.S.-led coalition's airstrikes and artillery pushed deeper into eastern Mosul on Thursday in a multi-pronged assault against Islamic State militants in the city. (AP Photo/Cengiz Yar)
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Circles of contrails made by warplanes from U.S.-led coalition flying missions in support of Iraqi troops and police in the northern Iraqi city of Mosul, Iraq, Thursday, Dec. 29, 2016. The Iraqi forces troops 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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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)
