War_Conflict

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** FILE ** Angelina Jolie, the U.N. refugee agency's special envoy, speaks to the press during her visit to the Zaatari Syrian Refugees Camp in Mafraq, Jordan, on Tuesday, Sept. 11, 2012. The Hollywood star arrived on Tuesday morning in the Zaatari camp, which hosts about 27,000 Syrians displaced by the 18-month conflict in their homeland. (Associated Press)

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Afghan soldiers stand under their nation’s flag as the U.S. turns over its prison at Bagram Airfield north of Kabul to the Afghan government. It holds about 3,000 inmates, raising fears that militants could be released and endanger U.S. troops. (Associated Press)

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An Afghan soldier adjusts bullets in his gun Sept. 10, 2012, on a military helicopter during a flight transporting journalists from Kabul, Afghanistan, to Bagram. The journalists were to attend a ceremony where U.S. officials handed over formal control of the country's only large-scale U.S.-run prison to Afghanistan. (Associated Press)

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Syrian rebel fighters raise their weapons as they head to fight government forces near Aleppo, Syria, on Monday. A prominent defector says the opposition can oust the regime if given international aid. (Associated Press)

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ASSOCIATED PRESS Royal Air Force Red Arrows soar over the Mall and Buckingham Palace during a parade celebrating Britain’s Olympic and Paralympic athletes. Thousands of people waving British flags lined the streets of London on Monday to toast the athletes behind the country’s unprecedented summer of sporting success.

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** FILE ** Somali President Sharif Sheik Ahmed speaks during the swearing-in ceremony of 211 members of Parliament at the Aden Ade International Airport in Mogadishu, Somalia, on Monday, Aug. 20, 2012. Mr. Ahmed lost a parliamentary election for president to Hassan Sheikh Mohamud, a professor, on Monday, Sept. 10, 2012. (AP Photo/Farah Abdi Warsamehmeh)

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An Afghan soldier adjusts bullets in his gun on a military helicopter Sept. 10, 2012, during a flight transporting journalists from Kabul to Bagram to attend the hand over ceremony of a U.S.-run prison in Bagram, Afghanistan, to the Afghan government. (Associated Press)

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**FILE** A group of American and British POWs being held by the Germans, including Lt. Col. John H. Van Vliet Jr. and Capt. Donald B. Stewart, look over a mass grave where murdered Polish officers are buried, near Smolensk, Russia, in May 1943. The Soviet secret police killed the Poles in 1940, hoping to eliminate an elite that would have resisted Soviet control of Poland. Van Vliet and Stewart were among a group of British and American prisoners forced to see the horrifying site by the Germans, who wanted word to get out to the world of the Soviet atrocity. (Associated Press)

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Palestinian police clash with demonstrators on Sept. 10, 2012, near the municipality building in the West Bank city of Hebron during a protest against high prices and unpaid salaries. The demonstrators shuttered shops, halted traffic with burning tires and closed schools throughout the West Bank. (Associated Press)