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![Dome of the rock and wailing wall in Jerusalem, Israel](/sites/default/files/styles/16_9_sm/public/2022-09/GettyImages-964322666.jpg?h=b2774bcf&itok=8LR2ZEhQ)
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New York Times Photographer Tyler Hicks (2ndR) takes pictures of Palestinians in Gaza City on July 16, 2014. (THOMAS COEX/AFP/Getty Images)
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![Peshmerga fighters inspect the remains of a car bearing an image of the trademark jihadist flag, north of Mosul, August 18, 2014. (AHMAD AL-RUBAYE/AFP/Getty Images)](/sites/default/files/styles/16_9_sm/public/researches/thumb/10559/feature_2014_08_18_lee_smith.jpg?h=ae002e9f&itok=fVdYPSAr)
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Peshmerga fighters inspect the remains of a car bearing an image of the trademark jihadist flag, north of Mosul, August 18, 2014. (AHMAD AL-RUBAYE/AFP/Getty Images)
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![Israeli soldiers in front of the separation-barrier during clashes with Palestinian stone throwers, at the Israeli Qalandiya checkpoint, August 13, 2014. (ABBAS MOMANI/AFP/Getty Images)](/sites/default/files/styles/16_9_sm/public/researches/thumb/10523/feature_2014_08_11_gabe.jpg?h=ae002e9f&itok=tZSSTc_x)
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Israeli soldiers in front of the separation-barrier during clashes with Palestinian stone throwers, at the Israeli Qalandiya checkpoint, August 13, 2014. (ABBAS MOMANI/AFP/Getty Images)
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![Israeli Merkava tanks drive near the border between Israel and the Gaza Strip on August 5, 2014. (THOMAS COEX/AFP/Getty Images)](/sites/default/files/styles/16_9_sm/public/researches/thumb/10529/feature_2014_08_11_singer.jpg?h=ae002e9f&itok=USTeBQ3O)
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Israeli Merkava tanks drive near the border between Israel and the Gaza Strip on August 5, 2014. (THOMAS COEX/AFP/Getty Images)
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![Graffiti with the first letter of the world 'Nasara', the word used in the Koran for Christians, and 'Real estate property of the Islamic State (IS)' in Arabic, on a church in Mosul, July 26, 2014. (AFP/Getty Images)](/sites/default/files/styles/16_9_sm/public/researches/thumb/10518/feature_2014_08_08_lela.jpg?h=ae002e9f&itok=mYMY7aiC)
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Graffiti with the first letter of the world 'Nasara', the word used in the Koran for Christians, and 'Real estate property of the Islamic State (IS)' in Arabic, on a church in Mosul, July 26, 2014. (AFP/Getty Images)
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![Palestinian supporters of Hamas shout anti-Israeli slogans during a demonstration in the West Bank city of Nablus on August 4, 2014. (JAAFAR ASHTIYEH/AFP/Getty Images)](/sites/default/files/styles/16_9_sm/public/researches/thumb/10512/feature_2014_08_06_feith.jpg?h=ae002e9f&itok=eWxmRA8Z)
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Palestinian supporters of Hamas shout anti-Israeli slogans during a demonstration in the West Bank city of Nablus on August 4, 2014. (JAAFAR ASHTIYEH/AFP/Getty Images)
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![Iraqi Yazidi women who fled the violence in the northern Iraqi town of Sinjar sit in the Kurdish city of Dohuk on August 5, 2014. (SAFIN HAMED/AFP/Getty Images)](/sites/default/files/styles/16_9_sm/public/researches/thumb/10516/feature_2014_08_06_nina.jpg?h=ae002e9f&itok=QAmEmY2_)
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Iraqi Yazidi women who fled the violence in the northern Iraqi town of Sinjar sit in the Kurdish city of Dohuk on August 5, 2014. (SAFIN HAMED/AFP/Getty Images)