War_Conflict

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This Civil War graveyard on the grounds of the West Campus of the former St. Elizabeths Hospital overlooks the construction site of what will become the new Coast Guard headquarters. This entire campus is being rebuilt to house the Department of Homeland Security. The cemetery with its 300 graves will remain. (Barbara L. Salisbury/The Washington Times)

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One massive granite marker from a Civil War cemetery was found in the home of an employee of the D.C. government. (Photo provided by Daniel Sanders)

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Bill Willis of the General Services Administration examines graves of Civil War soldiers - from the Confederacy and the Union - on the grounds of the former St. Elizabeths Hospital in the District on Thursday. (Barbara L. Salisbury/The Washington Times)

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This citizen journalism image taken on Saturday purports to show anti-Syrian regime mourners carrying the coffins of Syrian citizens killed in shelling by Syrian troops in Daraa, Syria. According to the Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, civilians were killed in heavy shelling on Saturday in Daraa, where the uprising began in March 2011. (Associated Press)

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**FILE** Former Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic enters the courtroom of the United Nation's Yugoslav war crimes tribunal in The Hague on Nov. 3, 2009. (Associated Press)

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Russian riot police try to disperse opposition protesters in downtown Moscow on the eve of Vladimir Putin's inauguration in May. Mr. Putin has taken a harder line against the opposition since returning to the presidency, threatening demonstrators with prison time and onerous fines. (Associated Press)

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Buddhist monks and people from Rakhine walk about to offer prayers at Shwedagon pagoda in Yangon, Myanmar, on Sunday. A group of people from Rakhine state and some Buddhist monks are at the Shwedagon Pagoda - Myanmar's most revered Buddhist shrine - to say prayers for a murdered girl and those killed in the clashes. The group walked a circuit around the pagoda. (Associated Press)

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Buddhist monks and ethnic Rakhine people hold placards at the Shwedagon Pagoda, Myanmar's most revered Buddhist shrine, in Yangon, Myanmar, on Sunday, June. 10, 2012. The group gathered to say prayers for a murdered girl and others killed in the clashes in Rakhine state over the weekend. (AP Photo/Khin Maung Win)

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A man in Karachi, Pakistan, naps on Thursday, May 17, 2012, on one of the oil tankers used to transport NATO fuel supplies to neighboring Afghanistan. Pakistan closed the supply route to Afghanistan after American airstrikes killed 24 Pakistani troops along the Afghanistan-Pakistan border in November. (AP Photo/Fareed Khan)

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Villagers gather at a house destroyed in an apparent NATO raid in Logar province, south of Kabul, Afghanistan, on Wednesday, June 6, 2012. Afghan officials and residents say the airstrike, aimed at militants, killed civilians celebrating a wedding, including women and children. (AP Photo/Ihsanullah Majroh)