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A member of the Iraqi Christian forces Kataeb Babylon (Babylon Brigades), wearing a bandana with an inscription saying "Here I am, O Mary", stands guard carrying a Kalashnikov assault rifle by the statue of the Virgin Mary, damaged and decapitated by the Islamic State group (IS), in the Mar Benham Syriac Catholic monastery in the town of Khidr Ilyas, southeast of Mosul, on November 22, 2016. Iraqi fighters battling to oust the Islamic State group from Mosul captured the Catholic Mar Benham monastery on November 20, allowing its priests to return. Dating back to the fourth century AD, the monastery lies just 30 kilometres south of Iraq's second city which became a bastion of the jihadist group which swept across northern Iraq in 2014. SAFIN HAMED / AFP
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