AFP PICTURES OF THE YEAR 2016 A displaced Iraqi woman holds her cat, Lulu, as she waits for transport in the Iraqi Kurdish checkpoint village of Shaqouli, about 35 kilometres east of Mosul, on November 10, 2016, after she fled her home with her children in the eastern Intisar neighbourhood of the embattled city to take refuge at a camp in Arbil. Iraqi forces are taking part in an operation to recapture Iraq's second city Mosul from Islamic State (IS) group jihadists. / AFP PHOTO / Odd ANDERSEN