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TOPSHOT - About 500 Shiite volunteers from Tal Afar attend a combat training session at a military camp in the Shiite shrine city of Karbala in central Iraq on September 25, 2014 to join the fight against jihadists of the Islamic State (IS) group which led a sweeping offensive in June that overran much of the country's Sunni Arab heartland. The militant organisation has taken control of important cities including Mosul, Saddam Hussein's hometown Tikrit and Tal Afar in northern Iraq, as well as Fallujah and part of Ramadi in the west. AFP PHOTO / MOHAMMED SAWAF (Photo by MOHAMMED SAWAF / AFP) (Photo by MOHAMMED SAWAF/AFP via Getty Images)