Anti-IS coalition trains policemen in Syria's Raqa
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Channel: AFP News Agency · 2017 · News & Politics
Dozens of young men gather in a school yard in northern Syria to take the oath at a police graduation ceremony after a week's training supervised by the US-led coalition. They were the first batch of policemen to be trained by the coalition to maintain law and order in Raqa, as a Kurdish-Arab alliance battles to expel the Islamic State group from the rest of the northern province.
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