In this task, you will be presented with a passage and have to answer a question based on your understanding of the events inferred from the passage. Try to find the best answer that is most likely to fill in "_". Note that the URLs in the text have been replaced with [Link].

[Q]: The little girl is still traumatised by the final hug she gave her father: by the time she let go, she was covered in blood, and he was dead, murdered by ISIS. Fitha, who was just seven-years-old, had run to father Khamis Faris after hearing a knock at the door at their home in Mosul. But as she held him, the two militants at the door shot him three times - in his right arm, his neck and his heart. His crime? Before ISIS arrived in Mosul in June 2014, he had worked as a policeman. Fitha's mother Foza Motaab is not sure if her little girl will ever recover. She is, she says, 'psychologically damaged'.Fitha hugged her father Khamis Faris as he was shot dead by ISISThe Islamic militants murdered him because he had been a police officerFitha and her family are now living in a refugee camp near Erbil with thousands of other people fleeing the evils of ISIS in their home countriesEach family has their own shocking story of trauma to contend with 
 Question:'When Daesh [local name for ISIS] came to _ they knocked at our door.
[A]: Mosul


[Q]: (CNN) The White House moved to tamp down suggestions that ties with Saudi Arabia are fraying, with administration officials saying that President Barack Obama "really cleared the air" with King Salman at a meeting Wednesday. Yet even as White House officials stressed that the leaders made progress, a prominent member of the Saudi royal family told CNN "a recalibration" of the U.S.-Saudi relationship was needed amid regional upheaval, dropping oil prices and ongoing strains between the two longtime allies. Obama landed in Riyadh earlier Wednesday for a summit with Gulf leaders and spent two-and-a-half hours meeting with the 80-year-old monarch on issues that have recently strained the alliance, including the conflict in Yemen, the role of Iran, Lebanon's instability and the fight against ISIS, U.S. officials said.The U.S and Saudi Arabia aren't at the end of a love affair, so much as in an unhappy marriageThe two countries are bound by military links and a shared fight against terrorism 
 Question:But the two leaders glossed over some of the thorniest matters, including a Saudi threat to dump U.S. assets if _ signs into law a bill that could make the kingdom liable for damages stemming from the September 11 terror attacks.
[A]: Barack Obama


[Q]: Mogadishu, Somalia (CNN) Suspected Al-Shabaab gunmen set off an explosion and stormed a popular hotel in Somalia's capital Wednesday, killing at least 13 people and three attackers, a security official said. A lengthy siege at Mogadishu's Ambassador Hotel ended early Thursday, said Somali security official Ahmed Barre. One militant died in an initial car bomb attack, according to the National Intelligence and Security Agency. Barre said the other two were killed by Somali special forces. At least 40 other people were injured in the attack, according to Capt. Da'ud Hajji, a senior Somali police officer. Two Somali lawmakers are among the dead, the Somali National News Agency reported.Security officials say 13 people and all three attackers were killed"Blood is everywhere," a witness says, describing the scene at a nearby hospitalHotel is popular among politicians, Westerners 
 Question:It's a tactic Al-_ has used before, such as an attack at another hotel in the Somali capital last year that left 15 people dead.
[A]:
Shabaab