Skip to content
Advertisement

War_Conflict

Latest Stories

OIL.jpg

OIL.jpg

In this Dec. 11, 2008, file photo, Prevention of Weapons of Mass Destruction Proliferation and Terrorism Commission Chair, former Florida Sen. Bob Graham, left, listens as Vice Chair, former Missouri Sen. Jim Talent testifies on Capitol Hill in Washington, before the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee. President Barack Obama announced Saturday, May 22, 2010, that Graham and former EPA Administrator William K. Reilly will lead a presidential commission investigating the Gulf of Mexico oil spill. (AP Photo/Lauren Victoria Burke, File)

Pakistan_Terrorist_Wa_Bada.jpg

Pakistan_Terrorist_Wa_Bada.jpg

**FILE** Afghan farmers work in an opium poppy field in Nawa district of Helmand province, south of Kabul, Afghanistan, on April 25, 2009. (Associated Press)

India_Shooting_Kwed.JPG

India_Shooting_Kwed.JPG

** FILE ** Pigeons fly as the Taj Mahal Palace hotel continued to burn in Mumbai, India, on Thursday, Nov. 27, 2008. Teams of heavily armed gunmen stormed luxury hotels, a popular restaurant, hospitals and a crowded train station in coordinated attacks across India's financial capital, police said. (AP Photo)

APTOPIX_Holocaust_Mus_Stai.jpg

APTOPIX_Holocaust_Mus_Stai.jpg

The Washington Monument looms over the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, Wednesday, June 10, 2009. An elderly gunman opened fire with a rifle inside the crowded U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum on Wednesday, gravely wounding a security guard before being shot. Authorities said they were investigating a white supremacist as the possible shooter. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)

G20_Summit_Protests_Live2.jpg

G20_Summit_Protests_Live2.jpg

Pittsburgh police in riot gear redeploy Thursday after confrontations with protesters near the Strip District in Pittsburgh. Hundreds of demonstrators marched in protest of the G-20 summit, which is expected to begin in Pittsburgh on Thursday. (Associated Press)

BA.jpg

BA.jpg

**FILE** A British Airways aircraft prepares to taxi at Heathrow Airport in London on Aug. 13, 2005. (Associated Press)

NIGERIA_US_AIRLINER_A_Webe2.jpg

NIGERIA_US_AIRLINER_A_Webe2.jpg

**FILE** Cars are seen parked outside Murtala Mohammed airport in Lagos, Nigeria, on Dec. 26, 2009. Northwest Airlines passenger Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, a 23-year-old Nigerian claiming to be acting on orders from al Qaeda, set off an explosive device on a Christmas Day flight in a failed terrorist attack on the plane as it was landing in Detroit. The suspect boarded in Nigeria and went through Amsterdam en route to Detroit.

Fashion_Wartime_Lea.jpg

Fashion_Wartime_Lea.jpg

** FILE ** U.S. Army service members salute in the official uniforms of the Women's Army Auxiliary Corps (WAACS) in this May 22, 1942, photo. Wartime often has been heralded as strong periods of American style, yet the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq seem to be barely a blip on the radar of the fashion community. (AP Photo/File)

al-Qaida_North_Africa_Webe.jpg

al-Qaida_North_Africa_Webe.jpg

** FILE ** In this March 18, 2004, file photo Malian soldiers from the 512th Motorised Infantry company complete their training by U.S. Special Forces, top, in the desert near Timbuktu in Mali as part of the U.S. Pan-Sahel Initiative to secure the Sahel region from being used by terrorists. A North African faction, which calls itself Al-Qaida in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM), is still small and largely isolated, numbering a couple hundred militants based mostly in the vast desert of northern Mali. But there are signs of signs of stepped-up activity in the region. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis, File)

Oklahoma_City_Bombing_Lea2.jpg

Oklahoma_City_Bombing_Lea2.jpg

** FILE ** An Oklahoma City fireman walks near explosion-damaged cars on the north side of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City after the bombing on April 19, 1995. More than 600 people were injured in the attack and 168 people were killed. (AP Photo/Daily Oklahoman, Jim Argo, File)

Iraq_Security_Bada.jpg

Iraq_Security_Bada.jpg

** FILE ** An Iraqi soldier stands guard in the Shiite enclave of Sadr City in Baghdad, Iraq, Wednesday, June. 24, 2009. (AP Photo/Hadi Mizban)

Iraq_War_Anniversary_Live.jpg

Iraq_War_Anniversary_Live.jpg

**FILE** An Iraqi soldier is seen near an Iraqi Army tank, which was destroyed in the U.S.-led invasion, in Basra, Iraq's second-largest city, 340 miles southeast of Baghdad, Iraq, on April 9. (Associated Press)

Afghanistan_Surge_Cork.jpg

Afghanistan_Surge_Cork.jpg

**FILE** U.S. Marines from the 2nd Marine Expeditionary Battalion walk through the sand inside Camp Leatherneck in Afghanistan's Helmand province on June 8, 2009. (Associated Press)

Times_Square_Car_Bomb_Thir.jpg

Times_Square_Car_Bomb_Thir.jpg

Police guard a house, where Faisal Shahzad once lived, in Shelton, Conn., Tuesday, May 4, 2010. Mr. Shahzad, a U.S. citizen who had recently returned from a five-month trip to his native Pakistan, was arrested on terrorism and weapons of mass destruction charges for trying to blow up the crude gasoline-and-propane bomb amid tourists and theatergoers Saturday evening. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan)

Afghanistan.jpg

Afghanistan.jpg

**FILE** A U.S. Army Black Hawk medical evacuation helicopter flies on a mission over Helmand Province, Afghanistan, Thursday, Oct. 22, 2009.

Guantanamo_Detainees_Lea.jpg

Guantanamo_Detainees_Lea.jpg

** FILE ** In this Nov. 19, 2008, photo reviewed by the U.S. military, a Guantanamo detainee glances up while resting on a foam pad inside a fenced-in outdoor exercise area at the Camp 6 high-security detention facility on the U.S. naval base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. (AP Photo/Brennan Linsley)

Afghanistan_Stalemate_Bada.jpg

Afghanistan_Stalemate_Bada.jpg

**FILE** In this photo taken Tuesday, June 23, 2009, U.S. Marine Capt. Zachary Martin, Golf Company commander of 2nd Battalion, 3rd Marines of the 2nd MEB patrols with a squad through the empty town of Now Zad in Afghanistan's Helmand province. Three years after its residents fled, the once bustling town of Now Zad is the scene of a stalemate between U.S. Marines and Taliban insurgents and an example of the challenges facing the U.S. administration even as it sends 21,000 extra Marines and soldiers to the south to try and turn around a bogged down, 8-year-long war. (AP Photo/David Guttenfelder)

MIDEAST_ISRAEL_PALEST_Lea.jpg

MIDEAST_ISRAEL_PALEST_Lea.jpg

** FILE ** Israeli police walk through the Al-Aqsa mosque compound, also known to Jews as the Temple Mount, in Jerusalem's Old City on Wednesday, March 17, 2010. (AP Photo/Tara Todras-Whitehill)

GERMANY.jpg

GERMANY.jpg

German Bundeswehr soldiers seen during a training in Seedorf, northern Germany on Aug. 25, 2008. (AP Photo/Joerg Sarbach, File) ** FILE **

Thailand_AIDS_Vaccine_Cork.jpg

Thailand_AIDS_Vaccine_Cork.jpg

** FILE ** A lab technician at the Armed Forces Institute of Medical Science in Bangkok who works with the HIV Vaccine Trial Phrase Project in Thailand holds up a vial of AIDS vaccine in 2005 to check information and the manufacturing date printed on the vials. (AP Photo/Thai Public Health Ministry)