Displaced Iraqi children from the former embattled city of Mosul attend school at the Hasan Sham camp, east of Erbil in northern Iraq, on November 20th, 2017. Iraq's second city, Mosul was recaptured in July after being taken in a summer 2014 offensive by the Islamic State group.
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Syrian opposition fighters are stopped at a checkpoint manned by regime forces on May 21st, 2017.
A government soldier watches as journalists tour the ruins of what was the main battle area in Marawi on the southern island of Mindanao on October 25th, 2017.
Pope Francis blesses the crowd attending the Angelus prayer in St. Peter's Square at the Vatican on July 23rd, 2017.
A camel is seen in a desert area on the Qatari side of the Abu Samrah border crossing between Saudi Arabia and Qatar, on June 20th, 2017.
Palestinian protesters clash with Israeli forces on December 11th, 2017, near the border fence with Israel, east of Gaza City.
Syrian Kurds wave the Kurdish flag in the Syrian city of Qamishli on September 27th, 2017, during a gathering in support of the independence referendum in Iraq's northern Kurdish region.
