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Protesters chant slogans against Iraq's Shiite-led government during a demonstration in Fallujah. Fear run high that Iranian-backed militias may be plotting a type of Shia Islamic State after they defeat the terror army. (Associated Press)
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An Iraqi woman bakes bread in makeshift ovens at a U.N. refugee camp in Fallujah, Iraq. Thousands of Iraqi civilians flooded camps around Fallujah after U.S.-backed Iraqi forces ousted Islamic State from the city in late June. (Carlo MuNoz/The Washington Times)
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As Iran-backed militias are taking on an increasingly large role in the fight against the Islamic State terror army in Iraq, fears are simmering that the Iranian groups may be setting their sights on forming a type of Shia version of the Islamic State after its eventual defeat. (Associated Press)
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Since the operation to liberate Fallujah began, the U.N. says they have received reports that some 500 men and boys have been detained for questioning as thousands of civilians have fled the city's mostly rural outskirts.
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"This is something that's new in this war, not something you would've seen back in the Gulf War, but it's an important new capability, and it is an important use of our Cyber Command and the reason that Cyber Command was established in the first place," Defense Secretary Ashton Carter told reporters about fighting the Islamic State. (Associated Press)
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Airstrikes can be measured in targets hit, including the Islamic State's cybercenters. The ground war can be measured in territory taken. But a metric for how well the cybercampaign is going is more elusive. (ASSOCIATED PRESS PHOTOGRAPHS)
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ripe for recruiting: Belgian police raided Brussels' Molenbeek neighborhood in March after the deadly terrorist attacks in Paris. At least three of the terrorists grew up and still lived in the heavily Muslim enclave. Belgium has struggled to track jihadi recruiters in the area. (Associated Press)
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Donald Trump has signaled that he would resume the transfer of certain military-grade equipment to local police departments, a practice that the White House ended last year after police in riot gear were seen confronting protesters in Ferguson, Missouri. (Associated Press)
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In this photo released by China's Xinhua News Agency, a Russian naval ship arrives in port in Zhanjiang in southern China's Guangdong Province, Monday, Sept. 12, 2016. The Chinese and Russian navies launched eight days of war games in the South China Sea on Monday, in a sign of growing cooperation between their armed forces against the backdrop of regional territorial disputes. (Zha Chunming/Xinhua via AP)
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Iraqi forces retook the town of Qayara, a key city near a major air base south of Mosul, from the Islamic State group. From there, they will launch their operation to attempt to retake the city of Mosul, the second-largest in Iraq, from the terrorist army. (Associated Press)
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A Kurdish Peshmerga fighter watches an artillery strike hit Islamic State targets inside Mosul, Iraq. U.S., Iraqi and Kurdish forces are preparing a massive operation to retake the city, the terror group's de facto Iraqi capital. (Carlo Munoz/The Washington Times)
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Oil wells on the edge of Qaraya, Iraq, were set on fire during the operation by Iraqi forces, backed by U.S. advisers, to retake the city in August. The operation was successful. (Associated Press)
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Islamic State fighters have controlled the important city of Mosul, Iraq, since taking the city in 2014. Military bases in Qayyar, 40 miles south of Mosul, will serve as the jumping-off point for Iraqi Army and peshmerga forces to advance upon the occupied city, with U.S. advisers providing guidance on the operation. (Carlo Munoz/The Washington Times)
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Watching Iraqi forces and Iran-backed troops advance has spurred resentment and distrust among Kurdish peshmerga commanders, who fear they're being sidelined. (Associated Press)
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Confusion remains amid sectarian, ethnic and religious rivalries as to who will take control of Mosul after Iraqi and American forces liberate the city from Islamic State. (Associated Press)
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U.S. and Iraqi officials cast Ramadi as proof that coalition training efforts have paid off and the Iraqi military has improved since its catastrophic collapse in the summer of 2014. But some analysts say the fight that wrested the city from the Islamic State group highlights the military's lingering shortcomings and isn't a model for trying to retake Mosul. (Associated Press)
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Shiite tribesmen, known as Houthis, hold their weapons as they chant slogans during a rally in Sanaa, Yemen, on July 18. (Associated Press)
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Cyber Security Threat Against Elections Illustration by Greg Groesch/The Washington Times
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In this photo taken Wednesday, Aug. 17, 2016, U.S. Army drill sergeants stand over recruits during a live-fire marksmanship training course at Fort Jackson, S.C. While some of the Army's newest recruits may have grown up using rifles to hunt or take target practice, the drill sergeants charged with turning 45,000 civilians into warriors every year say more than half may have never touched a gun. (AP Photo/Gerry Broome) ** FILE **
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Princess Leia Organa makes an appearance in "Star Wars Rebels: Complete Season Two," available on Blu-ray from Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment.
