War_Conflict

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This photo taken March 8, 2013, and released on March 14 by the French Army Communications Audiovisual office (ECPAD) shows a French air force helicopter patrolling over the Adrar region in northern Mali. France, Mali's former colonial ruler, started the campaign in January, fearing the region was becoming a terrorist haven. But the fighting has grown tougher and French forces aren't ready to pull out yet. (Associated Press/ECPAD)

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A B-52 bomber is captured before joint training exercises between the U.S. and South Korea, March 2013. (U.S. Embassy, Seoul)

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** FILE ** Sponsors and family members of victims watch as Colorado Gov. John Hickenlooper signs gun-control bills into law at the Capitol in Denver on Wednesday, March 20, 2013. The bills, which place new restrictions on firearms, thrust Colorado into the national spotlight as a potential test of how far the country might be willing to go on new restrictions after the horror of the Newtown, Conn., and Aurora, Colo., shootings. (Associated Press)

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A B-52 bomber is captured before joint training exercises between the U.S. and South Korea, March 2013. (U.S. Embassy, Seoul)

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U.S. Marine Corps Gen. Joseph F. Dunford Jr., the top American and NATO commander in Afghanistan, gestures during an interview with the Associated Press at his headquarters in Kabul, Afghanistan, on Monday, March 18, 2013. (AP Photo/Ahmad Jamshid)

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HIT: A bus full of Israeli vacationers was the target of a suicide attack by terrorists in Bulgaria last July. The bus was transporting the group to a hotel. (Associated Press)

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Juanita Tudor Lowrey, 86, holds a photo of her father, Civil War veteran Hugh Tudor, on Tuesday, March 19, 2013, in Kearney, Mo. Ms. Lowrey received pension benefits related to her father's Civil War service until she was 18 after her father died when she was 2 years old. (AP Photo/Charlie Riedel)

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**FILE** In this photo released by the Syrian official news agency SANA, victims who suffered an alleged chemical attack at Khan al-Assal village are covered by blankets as they receive treatment at a hospital in Aleppo on March 19, 2013. Syria's information minister says a chemical weapon fired by rebels on a village in the north of the country is the "first act" by the opposition interim government announced in Istanbul. Rebels have denied the accusation and say regime forces fired the weapon. (Associated Press/SANA)