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Liberian soldiers travel to the city of Zwedru from their base at a former school to collect supplies. The sight of men armed with AK-47 assault rifles has brought back terrifying memories for many Liberians who endured years of civil conflict. From 1989 to 2003, paramilitary troops dubbed the “Demon Forces” launched a campaign of killing and torture across the country. (Tamasin Ford/Special to The Washington Times)
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Ghassan Khalil, 30, holds his son Mahmoud, 2, who has a fever, Monday at the Bab Al-Salameh border crossing. He fled his home in Marea 12 days earlier after government forces shelled it and hopes to enter a Turkish refugee camp. (Associated Press)
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In this photo released by the United Nations-African Union Mission in Darfur (UNAMID), a woman receives sugar Aug. 27, 2012, from the World Food Program in a Kassab camp for Internally Displaced Persons. Civilians are beginning to return to their camps for the internally displaced following several weeks of unrest that began with the killing of a local official and his driver by a group of armed men. (Associated Press/UNAMID)
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Injured Afghan men arrive by car at a hospital after a suicide attack on a funeral in the Durbaba district of Jalalabad, east of Kabul, Afghanistan, on Tuesday, Sept. 4, 2012. (AP Photo/Rahmat Gul)
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In this Saturday, Aug. 27, 2011, photo, Afghan men listen to speeches, as Afghan and U.S. soldiers stand guard, background, in Washer district, Helmand province, south of Kabul, Afghanistan. (AP Photo/Abdul Khaleq)
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Rev. Moon’s first Unification Church in Seoul, South Korea, was built of stones, wood and discarded U.S. military ration cartons. (HSA-UWC photographs)
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Charlotte Police K-9 units keep watch over the crowd as the Occupy Charlotte movement holds a protest march through the streets of uptown Charlotte, N.C. during the Democratic National Convention. (AP Photo/The Star, Ben Earp)
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Pakistani officials and rescue workers gather at the site of the suicide bombing of a U.S. government vehicle in Peshawar, Pakistan, on Monday, Sept. 3, 2012. A (AP Photo/Mohammad Sajjad)
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Newly graduated Afghan national police officers march during a graduation ceremony at a training center in Jalalabad, east of Kabul, Afghanistan, in 2011. The U.S. military has suspended training for at least a month while the process of vetting new Afghan recruits is reviewed. (Associated Press)
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Afghan National policemen look on as Cpl. Joseph Dement, from the 2nd Battalion, 12th Infantry Regiment, 4th Brigade Combat Team, 4th Infantry Division, conducts a training in 2009. (Associated Press)
