War_Conflict

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** FILE ** In this Thursday, March 28, 2013, photo released by the Syrian official news agency SANA, a Syrian doctor treats an injured man who was wounded at the open-air cafeteria at Damascus University in the central Baramkeh district, in Damascus, Syria. More than 6,000 people were killed in the Syrian civil war in March alone, according to a leading activist group that reported it was the deadliest month yet in the 2-year-old conflict. (AP Photo/SANA, File)

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Because of sequestration, we're forced to cut security on our border and benefits for our soldiers. (Illustration by Dana Summers of the Tribune Media Services)

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Sgt. Michael C. Cable, 25, of Philpot, Ky., was killed by an Afghan teenager who stabbing the soldier in the neck while the GI played with a group of local children, officials said on Monday, April 1, 2013. (AP Photo/U.S. Army)

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** FILE ** Malian soldiers stand around the debris left after a jihadist suicide bomber blew himself up at a Malian army checkpoint near the airport in Timbuktu, Mali, on Thursday, March 21, 2013. (AP Photo)

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Police from the General Service Unit (GSU) patrol on a street in Kisumu, Kenya, on Sunday, March 31, 2013. Kenyan police deployed forces Sunday in the capital and in the lakeside city of Kisumu, where two people were killed and five seriously injured in riots on Saturday, to contain the continuing threat of violence, officials said, but the country remained mostly peaceful after a high court upheld Uhuru Kenyatta's election as president. (AP Photo)

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** FILE ** - A member of the Afghan special forces, left, briefs soldiers after a training exercise on the outskirts of Kabul, Afghanistan, Jan. 14, 2013. A senior U.S. commander said Saturday, March 30, 2013 that American special operations forces have handed over their base in eastern Afghanistan’s Nirkh district to local Afghan commandos. (Associated Press)

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** FILE ** Russian President Vladimir Putin, right, and Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu attend a meeting with top military officials in Moscow, Wednesday, Feb. 27, 2013. Russian President Vladimir Putin has called on the country's top brass to deliver a drastic upgrade of the armed forces in the next three years to fend off attempts from abroad to "tip the strategic balance" in the world. (AP Photo/RIA Novosti, Alexei Nikolsky, Presidential Press Service)