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  • Hiwa Omar, 25, a Kurdish Peshmerga from Irbil, Iraq, guards a checkpoint in Gwer, southeast of Mosul, Iraq, Oct. 24, 2016.
  • A statue of Josip Broz Tito, former Yugoslav leader, stands covered in cloth before its inauguration, Podgorica, Montenegro, Dec. 19, 2018. Podgorica, the capital of Montenegro, the smallest of the six Yugoslav republics, was between 1946 and 1992, officially known as Titograd, in honor of the Yugoslav leader. In late 2018, the local government erected a 3-meter-tall statue of Tito, in order to commemorate the city's Liberation Day in WWII.
  • Oct. 31, 2015. A girl wrapped in a thermal blanket stands at a beach moments after she disembarked a boat, Lesbos, Greece.
  • Participants in the Epiphany cross retrieval swimming race listen to a fiery motivational speech as they prepare to swim the winter waters of the Danube, Belgrade, Serbia, Jan. 19, 2014. Cross retrieval races and other Orthodox Christian religious traditions regained popularity in Serbia as nationalist and religious feelings surged after the breakup of Yugoslavia.
  • A souvenir seller waits for customers as she sits next to a monument to the WWII Battle of the Sutjeska, Tjentiste, Bosnia and Herzegovina, June 17, 2017. Thousands of monuments of all shapes and sizes were erected in Yugoslavia throughout the 1960's and 1970's to commemorate important historical events and WWII battles. A large number of the monuments were heavily damaged or destroyed on purpose in the 1990's conflicts. Those that survived are still visited by Yugoslavs and people who feel nostalgia for the old country.
  • A family grieves at the grave of a family member inside a graveyard destroyed by IS militants, Qayara, south of Mosul, Iraq, Oct. 27, 2016.
  • Refugees squat as they eat a meal provided by volunteers, Belgrade, Serbia, Feb. 7, 2017.
  • Sept. 17, 2015. A boy surrounded by Croatian police officers cries out as he tries to keep up with his family, Tovarnik, Croatia.
  • A news reporter does a TV stand up during a protest organized by refugees involving a mock up corpse wrapped in a blanket at the refugee camp in Idomeni, Greece, March 28, 2016.
  • March 8, 2016. An Iraqi Kurdish family burns clothes to warm themselves up, Idomeni refugee camp, Greece.
  • A U.S. army soldier from Fox Troop, Sabre Squadron, 3rd Armored Cavalry Regiment, sets an abandoned house on fire, Diyala province, Iraq, 2008.
  • A U.S. army soldier from Blackhawk Company, 1st Battalion, 23rd Infantry Regiment, lights a cigarette during a house search, Baghdad, Iraq, 2007.
  • An effigy stands on the barricades, Kiev, Ukraine, Feb.21, 2014.
  • Relatives of victims gather at the Potocari memorial center, Bosnia, 2015.
  • A family is ordered to stand against a wall as their house is searched by U.S. army soldiers from Blackfoot Company, 2nd Battalion, 23rd Infantry Regiment, during a night raid, Diyala province, Iraq, 2007.
  • A bust depicting Josip Broz Tito, former Yugoslav leader, along with the Yugoslav flag, sits inside a boot of a car, Kocani, Macedonia, May 25, 2019. The items were used in a privately organized celebration of Tito's birthday in Kocani, eastern Macedonia.
  • U.S. military service members attend a 4th of July re-enlistment ceremony, Baghdad, Iraq, 2008.
  • June 21, 2014. A member of a pro-Russian militia takes an oath of allegiance, Donetsk, Ukraine. A row of armed men in military attire. One guy puts a gun to his heart as he repeats the oath.
  • A man raises his hands as he is held at gunpoint by U.S. army soldiers from Blackfoot Company, 2nd Battalion, 23rd Infantry Regiment, while they conduct a night raid on the outskirts of Muqdadiyah, Diyala province, Iraq, 2007.
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