War_Conflict

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Iraq's Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki is seen during an interview with The Associated Press in Baghdad, Iraq, Sunday, Feb. 28, 2010. Iraq's Prime Minister is defending a decision to ban hundreds of candidates from the upcoming election, saying that it would not hurt Sunni turnout for next Sunday's vote. (AP Photo/ Khalid Mohammed)

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**FILE** Egyptian border guards patrol Aug. 6, 2012, near the border with Israel in Rafah, Egypt. President Mohammed Morsi is using former jhadists to mediate with radical Islamists in Sinai, trying to ensure a halt in militant attacks in return for a stop in a military offensive in the lawless peninsula, participants in the talks say. (Associated Press)

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**FILE** Afghan President Hamid Karzai speaks July 17, 2012, in Kabul, Afghanistan. (Associated Press)

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Syrians, who fled their homes due to fighting between the Syrian army and the rebels, shout slogans as they march toward the Turkish side of the border, during a protest asking the Turkish government to let them enter to their refugee camps, at the Bab Al-Salameh border crossing, near the Syrian town of Azaz, Tuesday, Aug. 28, 2012. (AP Photo/Muhammed Muheisen)

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** FILE ** This book cover image released by Dutton shows "No Easy Day: The Firsthand Account of the Mission that Killed Osama Bin Laden," by Mark Owen with Kevin Maurer. The firsthand account of the Navy SEAL raid that killed Osama bin Laden contradicts previous accounts by administration officials, raising questions as to whether the terror mastermind presented a clear threat when SEALs first fired upon him. (AP Photo/Dutton, File)

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ASSociated Press A riot officer patrols near a flaming tire outside Masjid Musa Mosque in Mombasa, Kenya, on Tuesday. Police and protesters fought as a violent backlash to the killing of a radical Islamic preacher continued Tuesday in Kenya’s second largest city.

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A riot police officer runs near a tire on fire, lit by Muslim youths, outside Masjid Musa Mosque, in Majengo, Mombasa, Kenya, Tuesday, Aug. 28, 2012. (AP Photo)

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** FILE ** In this frame grab made from amateur video provided by Ugarit News, taken on Sunday, Aug. 26, 2012, purports to show a member of the rebel group, the Unification Brigade, as he prepares to fire his weapon at a group of Assad soldiers in street fighting in Aleppo, Syria. The Associated Press is unable to independently verify the authenticity, content, location or date of this citizen journalist image. (AP Photo/Ugarit News via AP video)

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Cindy, center right, and Craig Corrie, center, the parents of Rachel Corrie, a pro-Palestinian activist who was killed by an Israeli bulldozer in Gaza in 2003, sit together with their daughter Sarah, center left, in the court room just before the district court's ruling in Haifa, Israel, Tuesday, Aug. 28, 2012. (AP Photo/Ariel Schalit)