War_Conflict

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A Syrian rebel sleeps last month after fighting government forces in Aleppo. A 60-member coalition called Friends of the Syrian People, recognizing that sanctions alone will not bring down the Assad regime, is collaborating on financial strategies. (Associated Press)

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associated press Penn State’s Gerald Hodges on Saturday intercepted a Trey Miller pass, one of Miller’s six turnovers this season.

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A Georgian woman speaks to police officers through a prison fence during a protest against prison abuse in Tbilisi, Georgia, on Thursday, Sept. 20, 2012. (AP Photo/Shakh Aivazov)

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**FILE** House Oversight Committee Chairman Darrell Issa, California Republican, hears Sept. 20, 2012, on Capitol Hill in Washington from Inspector General Michael Horowitz, the Justice Department's internal watchdog, the day after he issued a report faulting the department for disregard of public safety in "Operation Fast and Furious," the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives' program that allowed hundreds of guns to reach Mexican drug gangs. (Associated Press)

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Israeli soldiers conduct a military exercise Sept. 19, 2012, in the Israeli-controlled part of the Golan Heights that was captured from neighboring Syria in the 1967 war. It was the military's largest snap drill in years as tensions with Iran over its nuclear program rise and civil war in neighboring Syria rages. (Associated Press)

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U.S. military vehicles have been placed in a yard at the Kandahar Air Field for shipment back to the United States or other locations as part of a 23,000 reduction in the U.S. troop level by Sept. 30. (Associated Press)

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Fighters from Islamist group Ansar Dine stand guard during a hostage handover in the desert outside Timbuktu, Mali. Allied Islamist groups Ansar Dine and the Movement for Unity and Jihad in West Africa, or MUJAO, are applying strict Shariah justice across the northern half of Mali, which fell to the al-Qaeda-linked rebels. (Associated Press)

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Fighters opposed to Ivorian strongman Laurent Gbagbo's bid to cling to power jokingly take up fighting positions as they man a roadblock in the Abobo district of Abidjan, Ivory Coast, on Saturday, March 12, 2011. (AP Photo/Rebecca Blackwell)

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Children look on as a fighter opposed to Ivorian strongman Laurent Gbagbo passes in a pickup truck in the Anyama neighborhood of Abidjan, Ivory Coast, on Saturday, March 12, 2011. (AP Photo/Rebecca Blackwell)

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Fighters opposed to Ivorian strongman Laurent Gbagbo's bid to cling to power man a roadblock in the Abobo district of Abidjan, Ivory Coast, on Saturday, March 12, 2011. (AP Photo/Rebecca Blackwell)

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A man who says he was shot in the face by security forces loyal to Ivorian strongman Laurent Gbagbo while walking home in the Abobo neighborhood waits to receive stitches at a health clinic in the Anyama suburb of Abidjan, Ivory Coast, on Saturday, March 12, 2011. (AP Photo/Rebecca Blackwell)

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A fighter opposed to Ivorian strongman Laurent Gbagbo's bid to cling to power displays the amulets he wears to protect himself from enemy fire, in the Abobo district of Abidjan, Ivory Coast, on Saturday, March 12, 2011. (AP Photo/Rebecca Blackwell)