War_Conflict

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**FILE** U.S. Brig. Gen. John Charlton (left) and U.S. Lt. Col. Kevin Lambert talk Oct. 10, 2012, at the U.S base in An Band district in the Ghazni province of Afghanistan. Charlton is a deputy commander of Regional Command-East as well as the senior American advisor to the commander of the Afgan National Army’s 203rd Corps, Lambert is commander of 2nd Battalion, 16th Infantry Regiment, 4th Brigade, 1st Infantry Division. (Associated Press)

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Muslim pilgrims pray outside Namira mosque in Arafat near the holy city of Mecca, Saudi Arabia, on Thursday, Oct. 25, 2012. Saudi authorities say about 3.4 million pilgrims — some 1.7 million of them from abroad — have arrived in the holy cities of Mecca and Medina for this year's pilgrimage. (AP Photo/Hassan Ammar)

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In this Wednesday, Oct. 24, 2012, photo. An Free Syrian Army fighter shoots his gun toward government troops as rebel fighters belonging to the Liwa Al Tawhid group carry out a military operation at the Moaskar front line, one of the battlefields in Karmal Jabl neighborhood, in Aleppo, Syria. (AP Photo/Narciso Contreras).

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Myanmar Buddhist monks hold banners and placards during a rally against recent violence in Rakhine state, outside the city hall in Yangon, Myanmar, Thursday, Oct. 25, 2012. Nearly 200 protesters including Buddhist monks called for the stop of renewed violence in western coast of Myanmar. (AP Photo)

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Lawyers and doctors scuffle with riot police during an anti-austerity protest outside the Finance Ministry in Athens on Wednesday, Oct. 17, 2012. Civil servants and private sector workers staged a nationwide general strike on Thursday to protest new austerity measures the government is still negotiating with the debt-ridden country's international creditors. (AP Photo/Thanassis Stavrakis)

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Protesters throw gasoline bombs at riot police during a 24-hour nationwide general strike in Athens on Thursday, Oct. 18, 2012. Greece faced its second general strike in a month as workers protested over another batch of austerity measures that are designed to prevent the bankruptcy of the country. (AP Photo/Thanassis Stavrakis)

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A riot policeman pushes an elderly protester with his shield during clashes during the 24-hour nationwide general strike in Athens on Thursday, Oct. 18, 2012. Hundreds of youths pelted riot police with gasoline bombs, bottles and chunks of marble as yet another Greek anti-austerity demonstration descended into violence. (AP Photo/Petros Giannakouris)

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** FILE ** In this June 14, 2012, file photo, U.N. observers inspect the prayer hall of the Sayyida Zeinab shrine, which was damaged after a car bomb exploded near the shrine, in a suburb of Damascus, Syria. Iraqi Shiites increasingly fear the Muslim sect and its holy sites could be targeted in Syria, and Iranian-linked militants loyal to the faction are girding for a new eruption of retaliatory sectarian fighting, according to Iraqi Shiite leaders and government officials. (AP Photo/Bassem Tellawi, File)

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An Israeli military officer surveys the damage of a house after a rocket fired by Palestinian militants hit a community along the Israel-Gaza border in Israel on Wednesday. Rockets and mortars from Gaza have pummeled southern Israel. (The Associated Press)

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Smoke trails from a rocket fired by Palestinian militants from the Gaza Strip toward Israel on Wednesday. Gaza militants pummeled southern Israel with dozens of rockets and mortars on Wednesday, and Israeli airstrikes killed two Palestinians. (The Associated Press)

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Uganda People’s Defense Force (above) take weapons training at the Singo training facility in Kakola, Uganda. A multinational effort can claim a degree of success against al-Shabab fighters, shown conducting their own training in 2011 (left). (The Associated Press)

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Marine Gen. John Allen, the top commander of international forces in Afghanistan, says al Qaeda has re-emerged. He says it doesn’t need a large presence to be influential. (The Associated Press)