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Iraqi students run in a school yard at a school in Mosul's eastern Gogjali neighbourhood on January 23, 2017, as scores of schools resumed their activities in the areas government forces recently recaptured from the Islamic State (IS) group during the government's ongoing military operation against Islamist jihadists. They have been waiting for two and half years and the children of Iraq's east Mosul are flocking to enrol in their reopened schools, determined not to waste another day. / AFP / Dimitar DILKOFF (Photo credit should read DIMITAR DILKOFF/AFP/Getty Images)

Iraqi students run in a school yard at a school in Mosul's eastern Gogjali neighbourhood on January 23, 2017, as scores of schools resumed their activities in the areas government forces recently recaptured from the Islamic State (IS) group during the government's ongoing military operation against Islamist jihadists.
They have been waiting for two and half years and the children of Iraq's east Mosul are flocking to enrol in their reopened schools, determined not to waste another day.

 / AFP / Dimitar DILKOFF        (Photo credit should read DIMITAR DILKOFF/AFP/Getty Images)