Yearender 2019: 25 dramatic images of conflict from around the world

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People are evacuated by a member of security forces at the scene where explosions and gunshots were heard at the Dusit hotel compound, in Nairobi, Kenya, January 15, 2019. Image Credit: Reuters

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Turkey-backed Syrian rebel fighters are seen in action in the village of Yabisa, near the Turkish-Syrian border, Syria, October 13, 2019. Image Credit: Reuters

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A woman gives balloons to an Israeli soldier near the border between Israel and Gaza on its Israeli side, March 15, 2019. Image Credit: Reuters

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Members of the Ukrainian Armed Forces play the piano in a destroyed house near their position on the front line in Donetsk Region, Ukraine, February 4, 2019. Image Credit: Reuters

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Flares are seen in the sky during fighting in the Islamic State's final enclave in Syria, in the village of Baghouz, Deir Al Zor province, March 11, 2019. Image Credit: Reuters

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A boy waits with his mother as they queue with others for humanitarian and medical help after leaving Baghouz, the last stronghold of the Islamic State caliphate, in Deir Al Zor, Syria, March 5, 2019. Image Credit: Reuters

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Palestinians break their fast by eating iftar meals during the holy month of Ramadan, near the rubble of a building recently destroyed by Israeli air strikes, in Gaza City, May 18, 2019. Image Credit: Reuters

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Soldiers lie on the ground after a missile attack on a military parade during a graduation ceremony for newly recruited troopers in Aden, Yemen, August 1, 2019. Image Credit: Reuters

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The Iron Dome anti-missile system fires interception missiles as rockets are launched from Gaza towards Israel, as seen from the Israeli city of Ashkelon, May 5, 2019. Image Credit: Reuters

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Relatives react next to the burnt wreckage of a vehicle where members of Mexican-American families belonging to breakaway Mormon communities died, in Bavispe, Sonora state, Mexico, November 5, 2019. Image Credit: Reuters

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Fatima Ibrahim Hadi, 12, who is malnourished and weighs just 10 kg, sits on a bed at a clinic in Aslam, in the northwestern province of Hajjah, Yemen, February 17, 2019. Image Credit: Reuters

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Turkey-backed Syrian rebel fighters assist their injured fellow fighter near the border town of Tal Abyad, Syria, October 24, 2019. Image Credit: Reuters

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A Somali soldier holds position as civilians evacuate from the scene of a suicide explosion after al-Shabaab militia stormed a government building in Mogadishu, Somalia, March 23, 2019. Image Credit: Reuters

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A fighter with the Syrian Democratic Forces holds her weapon as they announce the destruction of Islamic State's control of land in eastern Syria, at al-Omar oil field in Deir Al Zor, Syria, March 23, 2019. Image Credit: Reuters

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Fighters loyal to Libya's U.N.-backed government fire guns during clashes with forces loyal to Khalifa Haftar on the outskirts of Tripoli, Libya, May 25, 2019. Image Credit: Reuters

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A French soldier of the 2nd Foreign Engineer Regiment searches a man during an area control operation in the Gourma region during Operation Barkhane in Ndaki, Mali, July 27, 2019. Image Credit: Reuters

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Workers of a wedding hall inspect the scene after a blast in Kabul, Afghanistan, August 18, 2019. Image Credit: Reuters

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An Afghan boy jumps from the remains of a Soviet-era tank on the outskirts of Jalalabad, on the 30th anniversary of the Soviet withdrawal from Afghanistan, February 15, 2019. Image Credit: Reuters

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Jameela, mother of Irfan Ahmad Hurra, who according to relatives was arrested during a clampdown after the scrapping of the special constitutional status for Kashmir by the government, is consoled by a relative inside her house in Pulwama, south of Srinagar, August 13, 2019. Image Credit: Reuters

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Afghan National Army soldiers take part in a training exercise at the Kabul Military Training Centre in Kabul, Afghanistan, January 27, 2019. Image Credit: Reuters

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Remains of missiles, which the Saudi government says were used to attack an Aramco oil facility, are displayed during a news conference in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, September 18, 2019. Image Credit: Reuters

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Smoke rises from the last area of land held by Islamic State in eastern Syria, in a besieged neighborhood in the village of Baghouz, Deir Al Zor province, Syria, March 17, 2019. Image Credit: Reuters

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A Palestinian girl cleans her brother's face outside their destroyed house after an Israeli missile targeted a nearby Hamas site, in Gaza City, March 26, 2019. Image Credit: Reuters

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Two F/A-18 Super Hornets assigned to Carrier Air Wing drop 1,000-pound general-purpose bombs during an Independence Day air power demonstration next to the Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln, in the Arabian Sea, July 4, 2019. Image Credit: Reuters

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A convoy of U.S. vehicles is seen after withdrawing from northern Syria, in Erbil, Iraq, October 21, 2019. Image Credit: Reuters

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