War_Conflict

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Andrew Natsios, the president’s special envoy for Sudan, gestures during a press briefing on Darfur and the U.S.-imposed sanctions, on Tuesday, May 29, 2007, at the State Department in Washington. (Associated Press)

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Demonstrators shout slogans condemning the recent austerity measures announced by the Spanish government, during a protest in front of the Popular Party in Madrid on Friday. Thousands of demonstrators took to the streets to protest a second wave of wage cuts in as many years plus planned austerity measures. (Associated Press)

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A U.S. Air Force honor guard carries the remains of a killed sailor from a C-17 Air Force aircraft at the U.S. air base in Ramstein, Germany, on Oct. 13, 2000. (U.S. Air Force via Associated Press)

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Seventeen sailors died and 39 were injured in a suicide attack on the USS Cole the day before while it was refueling in the Yemeni port of Aden. (Associated Press)

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Dozens of elderly Poles who helped save Jews during World War II were celebrated and praised for their heroism at a lunch in Warsaw on Sunday, July 15, 2012. (AP Photo/Czarek Sokolowski)

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An Afghan who was wounded in a suicide attack during wedding festivities lies in a hospital in Samangan province north of Kabul, Afghanistan, on Saturday, July 14, 2012. (AP Photo/Jawed Dehsabzi)

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USA Basketball guard Kevin Durant, left, shakes hands with U.S. Army Corporal Cody Stanton after a practice Saturday, July 14, 2012 in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

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This citizen journalism image provided by Shaam News Network SNN, purports to show anti-Syrian regime mourners chanting slogans, as they carry the coffins of Syrian citizens who were killed by Syrian forces shelling, in Daraa, southern Syria, Tuesday, June 26, 2012. Syria's elite Republican Guard forces clashed with rebels just outside Damascus Tuesday in some of the most intense fighting involving the special forces guarding the capital since an uprising against President Bashar Assad's regime began last year, activists said. (AP Photo/Shaam News Network, SNN)

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A demonstrator bleeds as she is detained by riot police during a protest march by miners to the Minister of Industry building in Madrid on Wednesday. Angered by huge cuts in subsidies, the miners converged on the capital for protest rallies after walking nearly three weeks from the mines. (Associated Press)

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Army Gen. Keith B. Alexander, chief of U.S. Cyber Command, this week told a Chinese reporter that he thinks "defending our country in cyberspace is one of our most important missions ... to ensure that we're secure." (Associated Press)

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Yemeni soldiers stand guard July 11, 2012, at the site of a suicide bomb attack at a police academy in Sanaa, Yemen. The bomber threw himself into a crowd of Yemeni police cadets leaving the academy and detonated his explosives, killing several people, a security official said. (Associated Press)

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** FILE ** Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat and his wife, Suha, hold hands before his departure from his compound in the West Bank town of Ramallah in October 2004. (AP Photo/Palestinian Authority, Hussein Hussein)

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Army Capt. Aston Armstrong is posted in a clearing to help guard a perimeter as the platoon breaks for a meal during a training mission. The Massachusetts native graduated from the U.S. Military Academy in 2008 and sought to earn a coveted sapper badge. (Rod Lamkey Jr./The Washington Times)