UPSC Prelims 2018 Question:

Consider the following pairs:

Sl. No.	Towns sometimes mentioned in news		Country
1.	Aleppo	:	Syria
2.	Kirkuk	:	Yemen
3.	Mosul	:	Palestine
4.	Mazar-i-sharif	:	Afghanistan

Which of the pairs given above is/are correctly matched?

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