War_Conflict

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Soldiers from the Free Syrian Army prepare to make a video stating publicly that they have formed a battalion after defecting from the Assad regime’s military. Control over Syria’s rural Idlib province is patchy and continues to shift. (Bradley Secker/special to The Washington Times)

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Foreign tourists wait to pass as police block the entrance of Burgas airport, Bulgaria, Thursday, July 19, 2012 a day after a deadly suicide attack on a bus full of Israeli vacationers. A daytime bombing that killed eight people and injured dozens on a bus full of Israeli tourists was most likely a suicide attack, Bulgaria's interior minister said Thursday. He said the suspected attacker was carrying a Michigan driver's license that was being sent to the FBI for authentication. (Associated Press)

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Gene Simmons and his Kiss band mates regularly meet with members of the U.S. military and perform for them. In 2008, they visited Air Force personnel and their families at Spangdalem Air Force base in Germany. (Associated Press)

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In this image made from amateur video released by the Shaam News Network and accessed July 18, 2012, Syrians celebrate after hearing about the suicide attack that hit the National Security building in Idlib, Syria. The bomb ripped through a high-level security meeting, killing the defense minister as well as President Bashar Assad's brother-in-law. (Associated Press/Shaam News Network via AP video)

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Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton met Sunday in Cairo with Egypt’s top military leaders, who are veterans of the Mubarak era and close friends of the U.S. military establishment. They show little sign of changing their traditional wariness of Tehran. (Associated Press)

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This image made from amateur video released by the Ugarit News and accessed on Sunday, July 15, 2012, purports to show Free Syrian Army soldiers during clashes with Syrian government forces in Damascus, Syria. (AP Photo/Ugarit News via AP video)

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Pakistani soldiers escort an alleged suspect arrested during a crackdown operation against militants in Bannu, Pakistan, on Monday, July 16, 2012. (AP Photo/Ijaz Mohammed)

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Men carry an extremely sick girl to the only medical center in the Yida refugee camp in Unity State, South Sudan on Saturday, May 12, 2012. With more than 30,000 residents, many of whom are undernourished, the few international aid organizations operating in Yida struggle to provide sufficient services. (Associated Press)