War_Conflict

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An Afghan police officer stands guard at the border crossing with Pakistan on Saturday east of Kabul. Violence in Afghanistan fell in 2012, but insider killings by uniformed Afghans against their foreign allies rose dramatically. (Associated Press)

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Free Syrian Army fighters fire at enemy positions during clashes with government forces in the Salaheddine district of Aleppo on Saturday. A U.N. envoy warns 100,000 Syrians could be killed next year if fighting continues. (Associated Press)

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Chuck Hagel, a potential nominee for defense secretary, called the 2007 troop surge in Iraq a “blunder” and advocated talks with Iran with no strings attached. (Associated Press)

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** FILE ** Jewish women and children deported from Hungary, separated from the men, line up for selection on the selection platform at the Auschwitz camp in Birkenau, in Nazi-occupied Poland, 1944. (Associated Press)

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Pakistani police officers collect evidence from the site of a suicide bombing in Quetta, Pakistan, on Sunday, Dec. 30, 2012. A suicide bomber driving a pickup truck packed with explosives rammed into a bus carrying Shiite Muslim pilgrims in the country's southwest, killing 19 people, a government official and eyewitnesses said. (AP Photo/Arshad Butt)

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A Pakistan army soldier takes position during a gun-battle with Taliban militants in Pawaka village on the outskirts of Peshawar, Pakistan, Sunday, Dec. 16, 2012. Pakistani security forces cornered the last members of a group of Taliban militants who staged a deadly raid on an airport in the country’s troubled northwest, and all five died in the ensuing Sunday firefight, officials said. (AP Photo/Mohammad Sajjad)

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People walk by the remains of a market burned in an overnight fire in the Haitian capital's Market District in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Saturday, Dec. 29, 2012. The market is one of several that have burned over the past year. (AP Photo/Dieu Nalio Chery)

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Christine Caldwell (left) receives firearms training with a 9mm Glock from personal defense instructor Jim McCarthy on Dec. 27, 2012, during concealed-weapons training for 200 Utah teachers in West Valley City, Utah. The Utah Shooting Sports Council offered six hours of training in handling concealed weapons in the latest effort to arm teachers to confront school assailants. (Associated Press)