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Syrian troops participate in a live fire exercise in an undisclosed location. (SANA photographs via Associated Press)
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Lucinda, a Fairfax County horse that has been the victim of two stabbing attacks. Photo courtesy Fairfax County Police Department.
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Zainab Abbas inspects her destroyed house June 29, one day after a car bomb attack in the Washash neighborhood of Baghdad. June was the second-deadliest month in Iraq since U.S. troops pulled out Dec. 18, 2011, with a major bombing or shooting occurring about twice a week. The possibility of civil war is a concern. (Associated Press)
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Supporters of the Difah-e-Pakistan Council sit on the top of vehicles with party flags as they take part in a rally in Lahore, Pakistan, on Sunday. Prominent hard-line Islamists led thousands of people in a protest against Pakistan's decision to allow the U.S. and other NATO countries to resume shipping troop supplies through the country to Afghanistan. (Associated Press)
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Supporters of the Defense Council of Pakistan sit July 8, 2012, atop vehicles with party flags as they take part in a rally in Lahore, Pakistan. Prominent hardline Islamists led thousands of people in a protest against Pakistan's decision to allow the U.S. and other NATO countries to resume shipping troop supplies through the country to Afghanistan. (Associated Press)
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Soldiers from the M23 rebel group show off July 7, 2012, in Bunagana, Congo, weapons captured from government troops, who fled to neighboring Uganda a day earlier as the rebel group took control of the border town. (Associated Press)
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Afghan President Hamid Karzai listens July 7, 2012, during a joint press conference with U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton at the Presidential Palace in Kabul, Afghanistan. Clinton announced that President Obama had designated Afghanistan as a major non-NATO ally shortly after arriving in the country for talks with Karzai. (Associated Press)
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In this Thursday, July 5, 2012, photo, Afghan students are seen during passing their midyear school examinations at the Mirbachakot high school on the outskirts of Kabul, Afghanistan. Afghanistan will seek at least $4 billion from international donors this weekend at a crucial aid conference aimed at propping up the country after most foreign combat troops leave at the end of 2014. (AP Photo/Musadeq Sadeq)
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U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, right, greets troops before departing Kabul International Airport Saturday July 7, 2012. (AP Photo/Brendan Smialowski, Pool)
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Pakistani border guards stand alert at the Pakistan-Afghanistan border in Chaman, Pakistan, Thursday, July 5, 2012. The first truck carrying supplies to American and NATO troops in Afghanistan has crossed the Pakistani border after a seven-month long closure of the supply routes by Pakistan ended earlier this week. (AP Photo/Matiullah Achakzai)
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Jeff Shaara is now out with his latest historical novel set in the Civil War — "A Blaze of Glory," about the Battle of Shiloh. He'll read from that and other selections Thursday ay the National Museum of Natural History.
