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A 3-meter-wide trench, expected to be 58-km long when completed, is being dug around the city of Kirkuk in an attempt to reduce terrorist attacks in the city. Kirkuk, an ethnically mixed city home to Kurds, Arabs and Turkmen, is disputed by the semi-auton
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