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Members of the Iraqi Emergency Response Brigade (ERB) hold a position behind a wall on June 24, 2014 in the western city of Ramadi in the Anbar province, where government forces along with Sunni anti-Al-Qaeda militia Sahwa (Awakening) fight against anti-government militants, including from the jihadist Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL). Iraqi government forces have managed to stop the advance of the militants in the west of the country after rejecting an assault on the city of Haditha, in Anbar provinve and others near the Baiji oil refinery, the largest of Iraq. AFP PHOTO / STR