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Fighting in Mosul intensifies as Islamic State is pushed further and further back. Still under control of IS is the Great Mosque of al-Nuri with its leaning minaret from where Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi declared a caliphate in 2014. Mosul, Iraq, 14 June 2017 (Photo by Noe Falk Nielsen/NurPhoto via Getty Images)

Fighting in Mosul intensifies as Islamic State is pushed further and further back. Still under control of IS is the  Great Mosque of al-Nuri with its leaning minaret from where Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi declared a caliphate in 2014. Mosul, Iraq, 14 June 2017 (Photo by Noe Falk Nielsen/NurPhoto via Getty Images)