War_Conflict

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** FILE ** Iraqi Foreign Affairs Minister Hoshyar Zebari speaks at a press conference in Baghdad, Iraq, Thursday, July 5, 2012. (AP Photo/Karim Kadim)

A driver washes his face July 5, 2012, near a truck carrying NATO supplies at the Pakistani-Afghan border in Chaman, Pakistan. 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 in the week. (Associated Press)

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Members of Washington's Chinese-American communities prepare to perform during the National Independence Day Parade on Constitution Avenue. The annual parade also included floats, marching bands from around the country and military units.

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Thousands of youths demonstrate against homosexuality in Uganda's capital, Kampala, in January 2010. Ugandan Ethics and Integrity Minister Simon Lokodo has accused some nongovernmental organizations of conspiring with foreign backers to recruit children into homosexuality. (Associated Press)

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A man Wednesday stands on a truck carrying NATO vehicles in Chaman, Pakistan, near the Afghan border. Pakistan on Tuesday decided to end a seven-month blockade of NATO troop supplies in a rare bright spot in relations with the United States. (Associated Press)

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Egyptian boys hold posters of Ahmed Hussein Eid, a university student who was fatally stabbed by three suspected militants, during his funeral procession in Suez, Egypt, on July 4, 2012. (Associated Press)

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Bombing victims are taken for burial in Najaf, 100 miles south of Baghdad, on Tuesday. Market bombings and other attacks across Iraq killed and wounded scores of people on Tuesday. One senior intelligence figure said he could not rule out that guards may have taken bribes to allow terrorists to penetrate security during a Shiite pilgrimage. (Associated Press)

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At the Battle of New Orleans, Gen. Andrew Jackson and his troops routed the British in early 1815, weeks after a peace accord was signed. (Associated Press)

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The American flag flying at Fort McHenry during the War of 1812 inspired "The Star-Spangled Banner," but the war itself inspired little else. (Smithsonian Institution/National Museum of American History)

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** FILE ** Security forces inspect the scene where two car bombs exploded minutes apart in Hillah, about 60 miles (95 kilometers) south of Baghdad, Iraq, Wednesday, June 13, 2012. (AP Photo)

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ASSOCIATED PRESS Four aid workers arrive by Kenyan military helicopter in Nairobi, Kenya, on Monday, three days after they were kidnapped by gunmen who attacked a convoy from a Kenyan refugee camp. "We are happy. We are back. We are alive and we are happy this has ended," said Qurat-Ul-Ain Sadazai, one of the four workers with the Norwegian Refugee Council. They were rescued by a pro-government Somali militia group.