War_Conflict

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Afghans investigate the remains of a burned-out vehicle after a suicide attack in Afghanistan's Ghazni province on Thursday, Aug. 29, 2013. The Taliban launched their most complex attack this year — a failed effort to overrun a NATO base in the province that killed one U.S. soldier and wounded 10 Polish soldiers and dozens of Afghans. (AP Photo/Rahmatullah Nikzad)

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Although Syrian refugees are calling for the ouster of President Bashar Assad, a growing number of jihadist organizations are fighting to take his place. (Associated Press)

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Gen. Herbert J. Carlisle, commander of the Pacific Air Forces, has made remarks about U.S. military deployments that China sees as having a "strong Cold War flavor," Beijing's euphemism for anti-communism. (Associated Press)

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In this citizen journalism image provided by the United media office of Arbeen that has been authenticated based on its contents and other AP reporting, U.N. investigation team with blue helmets, walk with Syrian rebels in Damascus countryside of Zamalka, Syria, on Aug. 28, 2013. U.N. chemical weapons experts headed to a Damascus suburb on Wednesday for a new tour of areas struck by a purported poison gas attack, activists said, as Western powers laid the groundwork for a possible punitive strike and the U.N. chief pleaded for more time for diplomacy. (Associated Press/United media office of Arbeen)