FILE - In this Tuesday, Nov. 1, 2016 file photo, Iraqi army soldiers warm themselves next to a fire near the Qayara air base, south of Mosul, Iraq. The operation that pushed Islamic State militants out of Shura _ a small village some 35 kilometers south of Mosul, made up of no more than 1,000 houses _ required days of preparation and some two thousand Iraqi troops to take on no more than 50 IS fighters. That's indicative of Iraq's overall military strategy on Mosul's southern approach, where dozens of villages with civilian populations have repeatedly slowed ground forces. (AP Photo/Felipe Dana, File)
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