War_Conflict

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Afghan officials investigate the scene of a suicide attack in Kunduz, north of Kabul, Afghanistan, on Monday, March 14, 2011. The attacker posed as an army volunteer in order to strike an Afghan army recruitment center, which also was bombed in December. The blast killed at least 35 people, Afghan officials said. (AP Photo/Fulad Hamdard)

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Anti-government protesters evacuate the injured to hospitals in private cars and ambulances as riot police leave the area firing tear gas on Sunday, March 13, 2011, in Manama, Bahrain. (AP Photo/Hasan Jamali)

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A man pours cola over the face of a demonstrator who was overcome by the effects of tear gas during clashes between police and anti-government protesters on Sunday, March 13, 2011, in Manama, Bahrain. (AP Photo/Hasan Jamali)

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A ferry is stranded atop a building in Otsuchi in Iwate prefecture on Sunday. The Japanese government doubled the number of troops pressed into rescue operations to about 100,000, following the worst-ever earthquake to hit Japan. (Yomiuri Shimbun via Associated Press)

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Col. Milad Hussein, a spokesman for the Libyan military, tells reporters Sunday that the eastern town of Brega was under government control, the rebels having been pushed out of the key oil town and into the desert. (Associated Press)

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An anti-government protester shouts during a demonstration to demand the resignation of Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh in Sanaa, Yemen, on Sunday, March 13, 2011. (AP Photo/Muhammed Muheisen)

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A female anti-government protester chants slogans demanding the resignation of Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh following clashes with Yemeni police in Sanaa, Yemen, on Saturday, March 12, 2011. (AP Photo/Muhammed Muheisen)

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U.N. peacekeepers patrol in Abyei, Southern Sudan, on Friday, March 11, 2011. Scores of villagers have died in recent fighting in Southern Sudan despite the presence of 10,000 U.N. troops mandated with protecting civilians. Now, internal documents say U.N. officials have ordered the peacekeepers not to operate in an area where civilians are at risk in upcoming battles, after being asked to avoid the region by the south's military. (AP Photo/Tim Freccia)

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Anti-government protesters react to tear gas fired by riot police on Sunday, March 13, 2011, along a main highway in Manama, Bahrain. (AP Photo/Hasan Jamali)

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Israeli soldiers man the Hawara checkpoint as Palestinians wait to cross near the West Bank town of Nablus after five people were killed in the nearby Jewish settlement of Itamar on Saturday, March 12, 2011. (AP Photo/Nasser Ishtayeh)

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Libyan rebels opposed to Col. Moammar Gadhafi shout slogans against the leader from atop their vehicle along a desert road between the towns of Agela and Ras Lanouf in eastern Libya on Saturday, March 12, 2011. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla)

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Saudi policemen form a check point inspecting cars near the site where a demonstration is expected to take place in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, Friday, March 11, 2011. (AP Photo)

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A Libyan volunteer prays on the outskirts of the eastern town of Ras Lanouf on Thursday. Government forces drove hundreds of rebels from a strategic oil port with rockets and tank shells on Thursday, significantly expanding dictator Moammar Gadhafi's control of Libya. (Associated Press)

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**FILE** Saudi Shi'ite protesters hold Saudi flags and portraits of unidentified Saudi Shi'ite prisoners during a demonstration in Qatif, Saudi Arabia, on March 9, 2011. Activists in Saudi Arabia's Shi'ite Muslim minority have issued Internet calls for a "Day of Rage." (Associated Press)

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Libyan rebels fill the bed of a pickup truck leaving the eastern town of Ras Lanouf, Libya, on Thursday, March 10, 2011. Col. Moammar Gadhafi's forces pushed rebel fighters from the strategic oil port of Ras Lanouf on Thursday, driving the opposition from the city with a withering rain of artillery fire. (AP Photo/Nasser Nasser)

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** FILE ** The Dalai Lama, the Tibetan spiritual leader, speaks in Dharmsala, India, on Thursday, March 10, 2011, during the commemoration of the anniversary of the 1959 Tibetan uprising against Chinese rule. (AP Photo/Ashwini Bhatia)

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A Libyan rebel, wounded in fighting against pro-regime forces, is wheeled into a hospital in Ras Lanouf, eastern Libya, on Wednesday. Forces loyal to Col. Moammar Gadhafi pounded opposition forces with artillery barrages and gunfire in at least two major cities. (Associated Press)