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In this Thursday, Dec. 24, 2015 photo, a boy dressed in a tiny denim suit jacket holds a candle as Iraqi Christians celebrate during Christmas Eve mass in the Al-Bashara Church in a Christian refugee camp in Irbil, northern Iraq. Many of the worshippers are displaced from their homes after Islamic State militants swept through northern Iraq in 2014. (AP Photo/Seivan M.Salim)

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Light duty: Israel Defense Forces restrict female conscripts to support roles in special operations and limit battle service to two light infantry border units. (ASSOCIATED PRESS)

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Nigeria Shiite Muslims hold religious flags and banners in a procession celebrating Prophet Muhammad's birthday and also demanding the release of Shiite leader Ibraheem Zakzaky, on posters, in Kano, Nigeria, Thursday, Dec. 24, 2015. (AP Photo/Muhammed Giginyu)

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An Afghan security forces member stands guard at the Spanish Embassy after an attack in Kabul on Dec. 12. Explosions and gunfire rocked a diplomatic area of central Kabul overnight as security forces tried to flush out Taliban attackers who claimed responsibility for a deadly car bomb Friday. (Associated Press)

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A migrant man and a boy react as they are stuck between Macedonian riot police officers and migrants during a clash near the border train station of Idomeni, northern Greece, as they wait to be allowed by the Macedonian police to cross the border from Greece to Macedonia, Friday, Aug. 21, 2015. Macedonian special police forces fired stun grenades to disperse thousands of migrants stuck on a no-man's land with Greece, a day after Macedonia declared a state of emergency on its borders to deal with a massive influx of migrants heading north to Europe. (AP Photo/Darko Vojinovic, File)

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In this photo dated Saturday, May 9, 2015, local residents carry portraits of their ancestors, participants in World War Two as they celebrate the 70th anniversary of the defeat of the Nazis in World War II in St. Petersburg, Russia. About 100,000 people walked in central streets in a march named 'Immortal Regiment' while carrying portraits of their relatives who fought in World War Two. (AP Photo/Dmitry Lovetsky, File)

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Lebanese activists hold up a makeshift shield as they are sprayed by riot police using water cannons during a protest against the ongoing trash crisis, in downtown Beirut, Lebanon, Sunday, Aug. 23, 2015. Lebanese riot police fired several rounds of tear gas and water cannons for the second consecutive day in downtown Beirut as they battled protesters with batons and stones _ a marked escalation of mass demonstrations against an ongoing trash crisis. (AP Photo/Hassan Ammar, File)

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In this Oct. 10, 2015cphoto, North Korean veterans gather before the start of a parade in Pyongyang, North Korea. North Korean leader Kim Jong Un declared Saturday that his country was ready to stand up to any threat posed by the United States as he spoke at a lavish military parade to mark the 70th anniversary of the North's ruling party and trumpet his third-generation leadership. (AP Photo/Maye-E Wong, File)

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Cadets march in central Khreshchatyk street during military parade marking Ukraine's Independence Day in the capital Kiev, Monday, Aug. 24, 2015. (Mikhail Palinchak, Pool Photo via AP)

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Migrants on a dinghy arrives at the southeastern island of Kos, Greece, after crossing from Turkey, Thursday, Aug. 13, 2015. Greece has become the main gateway to Europe for tens of thousands of refugees and economic migrants, mainly Syrians fleeing war, as fighting in Libya has made the alternative route from north Africa to Italy increasingly dangerous. (AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko, File)

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A victim of a terrorist attack lies dead outside the Bataclan theater in Paris, Nov. 13, 2015. (AP Photo/Jerome Delay, File)

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A paramilitary police officer investigates the scene before carrying the lifeless body of 3-year-old Aylan Kurdi from the sea shore, near the beach resort of Bodrum, Turkey, early Wednesday, Sept. 2, 2015. A number of migrants are known to have died and some are still reported missing, after boats carrying them to the Greek island of Kos capsized. (AP Photo/DHA, File) TURKEY OUT

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An Afghan National Army soldier searches a passenger at a checkpoint on the way to the Sangin district of Helmand province, Afghanistan, Wednesday, Dec. 23, 2015. Reinforcements have been rushed to a besieged southern district threatened for days with takeover by Taliban fighters, Afghanistan's acting defense minister said on Wednesday. (AP Photos/Abdul Khaliq)

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Iraqis rebuilt a bridge over the Euphrates River after the Islamic State destroyed all crossings leading to central Ramadi. The military reported progress Tuesday in its move to retake the provincial capital. (Associated Press)

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Iraqi soldiers stand guard at the Iraqi army headquarters in northern Ramadi. They have made progress in recent weeks toward the outskirts of the capital of Anbar province, but the final offensive has been slow in coming, despite a sizable advantage in government troops and manpower and prodding from the U.S. (Associated Press)

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A Bosnian police officer secures an area in a Sarajevo suburb as authorities look for 15 people suspected of being in "close contact" with the Islamic State. (Associated Press)

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In this Dec. 9, 2015 file photo made from video footage provided by the Russian Defense Ministry, a Russian Su-34 bomber drops bombs on a target. A new report by a human rights watchdog group accuses Russia of using cluster munitions and unguided bombs on civilian areas in Syria in attacks that it says have killed hundreds of people. (Russian Defense Ministry Press Service via AP, File)