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A U.S.-funded deminer in northern Iraq is pictured with mass-produced IEDs that ISIS indiscriminately laid across much of Iraq to kill civilians, stall agricultural development, and impede Iraqi forces. (Photo courtesy of MAG)

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The Lessons of 1989: Freedom and Our Future