War_Conflict

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**FILE** Afghan special forces are seen June 22, 2012, outside the Spozhmai hotel at Lake Qargha, just north of Kabul, Afghanistan, where security officials say Taliban insurgents have killed at least 17 people, most of them civilians, in an attack that began before midnight. (Associated Press)

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** FILE ** The B-17F Memphis Belle is shown in the restoration hangar at the National Museum of the U.S. Air Force in Dayton, Ohio. The most celebrated American aircraft to emerge from World War II is undergoing a loving and fastidious restoration. (U.S. Air Force photograph via Associated Press)

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Indonesian militant Umar Patek enters the courtroom for a hearing at West Jakarta District Court in Jakarta, Indonesia, on Thursday, June 21, 2012. Patek was sentenced to 20 years in prison for his involvement in the bombings that killed 202 people in Bali in 2002. (AP Photo/Tatan Syuflana)

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In this citizen journalism image provided by Edlib News Network ENN, photo taken on Tuesday, June 19, 2012, anti-Syrian regime protesters hold a poster during a demonstration at the northern town of Kfar Nebel, in Idlib province, Syria. Syrian rebels clashed with soldiers for hours overnight in a northwestern province and inflicted heavy casualties on government forces, activists said Wednesday. The fighting came after the head the of the country's U.N. observers said his forces had come under attack and cast doubt on the future of the mission. (AP Photo/Edlib News Network ENN)

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Christians, who make up about 10 percent of Syria's population, say they are particularly vulnerable to the violence sweeping their country. They fear that their future in Syria could be comparable to what Christians in Iraq suffered after the fall of Saddam Hussein when they were targeted repeatedly by extremist militants. "What is happening in these neighborhoods pains our hearts," said Maximos al-Jamal, a Greek Orthodox priest who remains in Homs. (Associated Press)

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Gen. Faustin Kayumba Nyamwasa, who fled Rwanda after a falling out with the country's president, makes his first public appearance since he was wounded in Johannesburg in 2010 at the trial of the six men charged in the shooting. (Associated Press)

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Gen. Nyamwasa (below) feared he would be arrested as a political prisoner in his homeland and fled to South Africa. He was convicted in absentia last year and sentenced to 20 years in prison.

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In the months before the Sept. 11 attacks, the CIA unit dedicated to hunting for al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden complained that it was running out of money, according to declassified documents dating from 1992 to 2004. (Associated Press)

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Turks hold national flags as they march in Ankara on Wednesday. They were protesting the deaths of soldiers a day earlier, when Kurdish rebels attacked Turkish military units with mortars and rocket-propelled grenades in the Daglica area of Hakkari province, which borders northern Iraq Kurdish areas in southeastern Turkey. Reportedly, at least eight soldiers and 26 rebels died. (Associated Press)