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Middle East - Iraq, Qaraqosh: A member of the of the Nineveh Plain Protection Unit (NPU) records the serial numbers of all the weapons being used by the milita in Qaraqosh, also known as Al-Hamdaniya in Arabic. This was the largest Christian town in Iraq before fleeing when the ISIS militants entered the town. The Nineveh Plain Protection Unit is a militia was assembled by local Christians who felt Kurdish and Iraqi forces had abandoned them as Islamic State stormed their land and are now protecting their town from any other threat.