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A picture taken on March 3, 2017 shows a general view of the predominantly Christian Iraqi town of Qaraqosh (Hamdaniya), 30 kilometres east of the northern city of Mosul. Qaraqosh was ravaged by IS jihadists, who seized it in June 2014 as they rampaged across parts of northern Iraq, capturing second city Mosul and swathes of the area known as the Nineveh Plain, home to much of the county's dwindling Christian minority. Although the jihadists were expelled from Qaraqosh in October 2016, life has not returned to its once-vibrant and wealthy neighbourhoods. (Photo by ARIS MESSINIS / AFP) (Photo by ARIS MESSINIS/AFP via Getty Images)