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TOPSHOT - A fighter from the pro-government Popular Mobilisation units covers his ears as he sets off a rocket launcher in the village of Taz Khurmatu, on the southern outskirts of the northern Iraqi city of Kirkuk, as they try to recpature the nearby village of al-Bashir from Islamic State (IS) group jihadists on February 16, 2016. / AFP / Mohammed SAWAF (Photo credit should read MOHAMMED SAWAF/AFP/Getty Images)

TOPSHOT - A fighter from the pro-government Popular Mobilisation units covers his ears as he sets off a rocket launcher in the village of Taz Khurmatu, on the southern outskirts of the northern Iraqi city of Kirkuk, as they try to recpature the nearby village of al-Bashir from Islamic State (IS) group jihadists on February 16, 2016.  / AFP / Mohammed SAWAF        (Photo credit should read MOHAMMED SAWAF/AFP/Getty Images)