War_Conflict

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Pakistani Shiite Muslims chant slogans during a protest in Karachi, Pakistan, on Saturday, Jan. 12, 2013, to condemn Thursday's deadly bombings in Quetta. Thousands of Pakistani Shiites protested in southwestern Pakistan for a second day on Saturday, blocking a main road with dozens of coffins of relatives killed in explosions to demand better security from the government. (AP Photo/Shakil Adil)

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French Defense Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian (right) speaks as Adm. Edouard Guillaud, the French army chief of staff, stands by during a press conference in Paris on Saturday, Jan. 12, 2013. Mr. Le Drian said hundreds of French troops are involved in an operation that destroyed a command center of Islamic rebels in Mali. (AP Photo/Thibault Camus)

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**FILE** Fighters from Islamist group Ansar Dine stand guard Aug. 31, 2012, in Timbuktu, Mali, as they prepare to publicly lash a member of the Islamic Police found guilty of adultery. (Associated Press)

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**FILE** In this early 1990s photo, Sakine Cansiz (left), one of the founders of a militant group battling Turkish troops since 1984, and another woman surround Abdullah Ocaln, leader of the Kurdistan Workers Party, or PKK, at the Mahzun Korkmaz rebel camp in the Bekaa Valley, Lebanon. (Associated Press/IHA)

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A Pakistani boy holds a candle while he and his mother take part in a Jan. 11, 2013, protest in Islamabad, Pakistan, to condemn deadly bombings in Quetta the previous day. Shiites in a southwestern Pakistani city hit by a brutal terror attack refused to bury their dead Friday in protest, demanding that the government do something to protect them from what has become a barrage of bombings and shootings against the minority Muslim sect. (Associated Press)

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** FILE ** Fighters from the Islamist group Ansar Dine stand guard in Timbuktu, Mali, on Friday, Aug. 31, 2012, as they prepare to publicly lash a member of the Islamic Police found guilty of adultery. (Associated Press)

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**FILE** Muslim women pilgrims make their way to throw cast stones at a pillar, symbolizing the stoning of Satan, in a ritual called "Jamarat," the last rite of the annual hajj, in Mina near the Saudi holy city of Mecca, Saudi Arabia, on Nov. 6, 2011. (Associated Press)

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Pakistani police officers and local residents gather at the site of bomb blast in Quetta, Pakistan, Thursday, Jan. 10, 2013. A bomb targeting paramilitary soldiers killed scores of people in southwest Pakistan, officials said. (AP Photo/Arshad Butt)