War_Conflict

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** FILE ** In this Aug. 9, 2012, file photo, army trucks carry Egyptian military tanks in El Arish, Egypt's northern Sinai Peninsula. Israeli officials said Tuesday, Aug. 21, 2012, they have voiced objections to what they say are improper Egyptian tank deployments in a volatile desert area near the Israeli border. (AP Photo, File)

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**FILE** In this image made from amateur video released by the Ugarit News and accessed July 23, 2012, a Free Syrian Army soldier looks at a military tank caught on fire during clashes with Syrian government troops in Aleppo, Syria. (Associated Press/Ugarit News via AP video)

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Defense Secretary Leon E. Panetta and U.S. Army Gen. Martin Dempsey, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, confer on Capitol Hill in Washington before testifying before Congress on Thursday, April 19, 2012. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

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A Panama border police officer questions two migrants from India at a police station in the Darien province on the border with Colombia, in Yaviza, Panama. (AP Photo/Arnulfo Franco)

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A Panama border police officer dressed as a clown rests on a cot before entertaining residents of the Darien province, on the border with Colombia, in Union Choco, Panama. (AP Photo/Arnulfo Franco)

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In this Jan. 6, 1967 file photo, comedian Phyllis Diller performs during the Bob Hope show for American troops at Can Ranh Bay, South Vietnam. (AP Photo/File)

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Syrians Bassem Kharfani (left) and Mahmoud Jikar sit at the door of Mr. Jikar’s house in Azaz, Syria, on Monday. It was destroyed in a bombing last week. (Associated Press)

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First District Cmdr. Daniel Hickson of the Metropolitan Police Department briefs reporters on a violent assault early Saturday in the Capitol Hill neighborhood (Andrea Noble/The Washington Times)

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The leader of the Sudan People’s Liberation Army, Col. John Garang, has a bachelor’s degree from Iowa’s Grinnell College and a master’s and doctorate from Iowa State. (Associated Press)

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U.S. soldiers from the 5th Stryker Brigade patrol near Spin Boldak, Afghanistan, in August 2009. That October, seven soldiers died when an improvised explosive device blew up a Stryker vehicle. (Associated Press)

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U.S. soldiers from the 5th Stryker Brigade take positions near their armored vehicles during a patrol on the outskirts of Spin Boldak, Afghanistan, in August 2009. Months later, they got the anti-IED gear they requested. (Associated Press)

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Afghans offer Eid al-Fitr holiday prayers Sunday at a mosque in Kabul at the end of Ramadan. “The enemies of Muslims … during the holy month of Ramadan treated the nation of Afghanistan cruelly: bombs, explosions in mosques, suicide attacks in mosques,” President Hamid Karzai said. (Associated Press)