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By QASSIM ABDUL-ZAHRA
ERBIL, Iraq (AP) -- Iraq's state-sanctioned Shiite militias said Sunday that some 5,000 fighters have joined their push to encircle the country's second-largest city of Mosul and cut off Islamic State fighters there.
Karim al-Nuri of the umbrella group..."
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