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Fighters from the Kurdish-Arab alliance, known as the Syrian Democratic Forces, gather next to a vehicle covered with mud in a field near the Syrian town of al-Naseem, located some 50 kilometres on the western outskirts of the Islamic State (IS) bastion of Raqa, on December 12, 2016. The US-backed alliance announced on December 10, 2016 it would launch the second phase of its battle for the IS group's de facto Syrian capital of Raqa. (Photo by Delil Souleiman/AFP Photo)
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