War_Conflict

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** 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)

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** 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)

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**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)

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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)

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A North Korean mock Scud-B missile, center, and other South Korean mock missiles are displayed at the Korea War Memorial Museum in Seoul, South Korea, Saturday, July 4, 2009. On Saturday, North Korea fired seven missiles into the waters off the peninsula's eastern coast from morning until evening. AP photo.

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** FILE ** In this photo taken Wednesday, May 13, 2009, and reviewed by the U.S. military, a U.S. trooper walks near an entrance to the Guantanamo detention facility at dawn, at Guantanamo Bay U.S. Naval Base, Cuba.

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Thai soldiers use elevated train tracks to advance on protesters near Lumpini Park in downtown Bangkok on Wednesday. Large numbers of Thai troops and armored vehicles marshaled near the fortified encampment in a downtown area occupied by thousands of civilians trying to topple the government. (Associated Press)

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An anti-government protester lights a firecracker against Thai soldiers Tuesday, May 18, 2010 in Bangkok, Thailand. The Thai government rejected a proposal Tuesday for peace talks with leaders of the Red Shirt protesters to end the deadly mayhem gripping Bangkok, saying negotiations cannot start until the protesters disperse. (AP Photo/Wason Wanichakorn)

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An Indian peacekeeper keeps watch at the MONUC base in Kiwanja. MONUC has 34 mobile operating bases in North Kivu, small military encampments planted in or near villages to provide security and communications. These bases can be scattered through the battlespace for protection and observation. The U.N. chief for humanitarian affairs warned that the premature withdrawal of the U.N. peacekeeping force known as MONUC could worsen the situation. (The Washington Times)

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Firefighters try to extinguish burning cars near to the Hadrian's Arch seen in the background, in Athens, Wednesday, May 5, 2010. Greek fire officials say three people have died in a blaze at an Athens bank during rioting over government austerity measures. An estimated 100,000 people took to the streets Wednesday during a nationwide wave of strikes against spending cuts aimed at saving the country from bankruptcy. (AP Photo/Thanassis Stavrakis)

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A Nigerian soldier stands guard outside the central mosque in Jos, Nigeria, in January after violence resulted in the deaths of both Christians and Muslims. The U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom puts Nigeria in the company of China, Iran and other top violators of religious freedom. (File photo, Associated Press)

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**FILE** A Pakistani police officer guards a U.N. car destroyed in June 2009 by suicide bomber at the Peshawar Pearl Continental Hotel. An increase in terrorist attacks in Pakistan and Afghanistan triggered a spike in the number of civilians killed or wounded in 2009, pushing South Asia past the Middle East as the top terror region in the world, according to new figures compiled by a U.S. intelligence agency. (Associated Press)

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Middle school students in Hacienda Heights, Calif., learn Chinese language and culture as part of the Confucius Classroom grant program. The middle-class town, about 16 miles east of downtown Los Angeles, has a history of racial tensions between longtime residents and relatively recent Chinese newcomers. (Associated Press)

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** FILE ** Sens. John McCain and Jon Kyl, Arizona Republicans, listen on April 19 as Pinal County, Ariz., Sheriff Paul R. Babeu (left) calls for more National Guard troops for border security. Cochise County, Ariz., Sheriff Larry A. Dever (right) concurred. (AP Photo)

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A Chinese People's Liberation Army Airforce's "Bayi Aerobatic Unit" J-10 fighter jet taxis back upon landing as an air force personnel stands guard at a base of the PLA Airforce's 24th Division in Yangcun, Tianjin, China, Tuesday, April 13, 2010. The media, along with about 51 military attaches from embassies in Beijing, including the United States, Britain and Israel, witnessed a 15-minute demonstration by four pilots from the 24th Air Division in China's domestically developed J-10 fighters. (AP Photo/Alexander F. Yuan)

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** FILE ** A Sudanese street vender waves Sudanese flags at a traffic line in Khartoum, Sudan, Thursday, April 8, 2010. (AP Photo/Amr Nabil)

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Supporters of anti-U.S. Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr wave Iraqi flags as they destroy a symbolic model of a U.S. Army tank during a rally marking the seventh anniversary of the fall of the Iraqi capital to American troops in the holy Shiite city of Najaf, Iraq, Friday, April 9, 2010.(AP Photo/Karim Kadim)

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** FILE ** Abu Obeida, center, spokesman for the Qassam Brigades, the Hamas' military wing, holds a press conference in Gaza City, Friday, March 26, 2010. (AP Photo/Hatem Moussa)

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Abu Obeida, center, spokesman for the Qassam Brigades, the Hamas' military wing, holds a press conference in Gaza City, Friday, March 26, 2010. (AP Photo/Hatem Moussa)

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A Palestinian demonstrator uses a slingshot to hurl stones at Israeli soldiers, not seen, during clashes in the West Bank village of Iraq Burin, near Nablus, Saturday, March 20, 2010. A Palestinian teenager was killed during clashes with Israeli troops in Iraq Burin, medical officials said. (AP Photo/Nasser Ishtayeh)