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A child is seen at a camp for displaced Iraqi Shiite Turkmen who fled their town of Tal Afar, in Shikhan, in Kurdistan’s Dohuk province, on June 24, 2014. The strategic Shiite-majority north Iraq town of Tal Afar and its airport were in the hands of Sunni Arab militants yesterday after days of heavy fighting, a local official and witnesses said. The state of Iraq, in its modern form, was created in 1920, and has always been a patchwork of ethnicities and religious confessions. AFP PHOTO/KARIM SAHIB