War_Conflict

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Former Sen. George McGovern delivers remarks at the National World War II Museum in New Orleans in 2009. (Associated Press)

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Masked armed police take Russian opposition leader Sergei Udaltsov for questioning Wednesday after searches of his apartment and his parents’ home. A criminal probe against him and others is seen as part of a widening crackdown. (Associated Press)

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FILE In this Friday, Aug. 31, 2012 file photo, fighters from Islamist group Ansar Dine stand guard as they prepare to publicly lash a member of the Islamic Police found guilty of adultery, in Timbuktu, Mali. Ordinary Malians and international experts alike are not sure what will reunite and bring back political stability to a country that until recently had a reputation as one of West Africa's most steady democracies. Representatives of the United Nations, the African Union and regional body ECOWAS are to consider the situation on Oct. 19, 2012 in a meeting in Mali's capital, Bamako. (AP Photo, File)

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In this photo of a sketch by courtroom artist Janet Hamlin and reviewed by the U.S. Department of Defense, the five Guantanamo prisoners charged in the Sept. 11 attacks, back row from left, Mustafa Ahmad al-Hawsawi, Ali Abd al-Aziz Ali, Ramzi Binalshibh, Walid bin Attash and the alleged mastermind Khalid Sheik Mohammed, attend their Military Commissions pretrial hearing in the Guantanamo Bay U.S. Naval Base in Cuba, Monday, Oct. 15, 2012. The five accused of the Sept. 11 attacks were back before a military tribunal, forgoing the protest that turned their last appearance into an unruly 13-hour spectacle. (AP Photo/Janet Hamlin, Pool)

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Mohamud Said Omar, shown in an undated family photo, is accused of providing money and personnel to al-Shabab, a U.S.-designated terror group at the center of much of the violence in Somalia. (AP Photo/Family of Mohamud Said Omar)

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** FILE ** Israeli soldiers conduct a military exercise in the Israeli-controlled part of the Golan Heights, captured from neighboring Syria in the 1967 war, on Wednesday, Sept. 19, 2012. The exercise was Israel's largest snap drill in years as tensions with Iran over its nuclear program rise and civil war in neighboring Syria rages. (AP Photo/Ariel Schalit)

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A metro police officer examine the gun shots at the crime scene at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C., Thursday, June 11, 2009, where a security guard was killed during a shooting yesterday. (Astrid Riecken/The Washington Times)

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**FILE** Syrian refugees children flash victory signs Oct. 2, 2012, as they stand in front of their tents at a refugee camp in Arsal, a Sunni Muslim town eastern Lebanon near the Syrian border. This Lebanese border town has become a safe haven for war-weary Syrian rebels, a way station for wounded fighters and home to hundreds of frightened Syrian refugee families. (Associated Press)

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**FILE** A Syrian man turns on the oven Oct. 14, 2012, at his bakery shop on the outskirts of Aleppo, Syria. The Aleppo rebellion started off in the rural areas of Aleppo province, not in the city as was the case in most other parts of Syria. Until this day, all of Aleppo's rebel-held areas are poor, while the city's affluent parts remain under government control with life there reportedly continuing much as it had before. Regime forces punish the city daily with artillery and airstrikes. Civilians are killed and wounded while standing on breadlines, walking the streets or watching television at home. (Associated Press)

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**FILE** A Syrian man cries Oct. 3, 2012, near Dar El Shifa hospital in Aleppo, Syria, while holding the body of his son, who was killed by the Syrian Army. Regime forces unleashed shelling on rebel-held areas and fired machine guns from aircraft, according to an Associated Press journalist in the city, following three suicide car bombs earlier in the day, in a government-controlled area of Aleppo. (Associated Press)