Region in focus - September 19, 2014

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  A reflection in a mirror shows an Iraqi Sunni gunman monitoring with binoculars as he secures an area in Dhuluiya, some 75 kms north of Baghdad after security forces and allied tribesmen retook the city from Islamic States (IS) fighters. Ahmad Al Rubaye / AFP

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  A Syrian refugee barber trainee shaves a man at one of the vocational training centres of the The Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC) at Al Zaatari refugee camp in the Jordanian city of Mafraq, near the border with Syria. Muhammad Hamed / Reuters

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  Palestinian farmer Moneer Nearat, 50, harvests sesame in the village of Maythaloun near the West Bank city of Jenin. Mohammed Ballas / AP Photo

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  A Palestinian Bedouin baby rests in a swing at his family’s home in the Judea desert, east of Jerusalem, West Bank. According to media reports, Israel is planning to relocate Palestinian Bedouins from the area surrounding East Jerusalem to a new town in the Jordan Valley. Abir Sultan / EPA

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  A follower of the Shi’ite Houthi movement inspects a house belonging to an officer of the Yemen army, which was damaged during clashes with army soldiers, in Wadi Dhahr suburb of the Yemeni capital of Sanaa. At least 20 people were killed when Shi’ite Muslim rebels clashed with army soldiers and allied tribesmen in an outer suburb of the Yemeni capital of Sanaa, tribal and medical sources said on Wednesday. Khaled Abdullah / Reuters

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  A Palestinian Bedouin from the Jahalin tribe stands in the doorway of his home in the Judea desert, east of Jerusalem, West Bank, 16 September 2014. According to media reports, Israel is planning to relocate Palestinian Bedouins from the area surrounding East Jerusalem to a new town in the Jordan Valley. Abir Sultan / EPA

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  Shi’ite fighters, who have joined the Iraqi army to fight against militants of the Islamic State, formerly known as the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), take part in field training in the desert in the province of Najaf. Alaa Al-Marjani / Reuters

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  A Palestinian family shelters amid the rubble of their destroyed house in the town of Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip. Khalil Hamra / AP Photo

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  Free Syrian Army fighters rest inside a damaged room, during what activists said were clashes with forces loyal to Syria’s President Bashar al-Assad in Al-Amiriya near the Artillery School in Aleppo. Ammar Abdullah / Reuters

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