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The U.S. Army will conduct a test of 50-kilowatt-class lasers on its Directed Energy-Maneuver Short-Range Air Defense initiative (M-SHORAD) Strykers in 2021. (Image: U.S. Army)

In this image made from video, the J-20 stealth fighter jet flies at the China's International Aviation and Aerospace Exhibition in Zhuhai on Tuesday, Nov. 1, 2016. China's J-20 stealth fighter has made its public debut at Airshow China in the southern city of Zhuhai in the latest sign of the growing sophistication of the country's military technology. (AP Photo)

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Protests have erupted in the past year as Germany takes in migrants. Resistance is particularly fierce in the poorer eastern parts of the country. (Associated Press)

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Russia has deployed fighter jets to Syria as part of its coordinated operations with troops loyal the regime of President Bashar Assad and Iranian-backed ground forces. (Associated Press)

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FBI Director James B. Comey. (Associated Press)

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Illustration in appreciation of the sacrifices of military families by Linas Garsys/The Washington Times

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An Iraqi special forces soldier holds a rocket propelled grenade launcher in Bazwaya, some 8 kilometers from the center of Mosul, Iraq, Monday, Oct. 31, 2016. Iraqi special forces stood poised to enter Mosul in an offensive to drive out Islamic State militants after sweeping into the last village on the city's eastern edge Monday while fending off suicide car bombs without losing a soldier. (AP Photo/Marko Drobnjakovic)

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Supporters of Christian leader Michel Aoun hold his picture and Free Patriotic Movement and Lebanese flags, celebrate the election of the new President Michel Aoun, in Beirut, Lebanon, Monday, Oct. 31, 2016. Lebanon's parliament on Monday elected Michel Aoun, an 81-year-old former army commander and strong ally of the militant group Hezbollah, as the country's president, ending a more than two-year vacuum in the top post and a political crisis that brought state institutions perilously close to collapse. (AP Photo/Hassan Ammar)

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Journalists watch the election a new president on TV, ahead of the arrival by Christian leader Michel Aoun, the assumed president elect, at the Presidential Palace in Baabda, east of Beirut, Lebanon, Monday, Oct. 31, 2016. Aoun, a former army commander and strong ally of the militant Hezbollah group, is widely expected to win a two-third majority vote to become Lebanon's 13th president at Monday's session of Parliament. (AP Photo/Bilal Hussein)

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Former Lebanese Prime Minister and lawmaker Saad Hariri waves to journalists upon his arrival to the parliament building to elect a new President, in Beirut, Lebanon, Monday, Oct. 31, 2016. Lebanese security forces tightened security in downtown Beirut on Monday as lawmakers gathered to elect a new president, a vote that's expected to end more than two years of a political vacuum in the country's top post. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla)

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In this Wednesday Oct 26, 2016 photo, Bakr Mahmoud Mahdi, a presenter at the private Nineveh TV talks to callers on his live studio show, in Irbil, Iraq. Mahdi prepares to go live with a show called “Freedom Studio,” which he says allows victims of war to vent. Television stations in Iraq have been hosting call-in shows that offer a rare line of communication between Mosul residents who have been displaced and those still residing in the Islamic State-held city. But as Iraqi forces push closer to the city and the militants viciously enforce a ban on phones and the internet, voices from inside Mosul are falling silent. (AP Photo/Fay Abuelgasim)

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Critics of the Obama administration say that the president was unduly harsh on the protesters who occupied the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge in Oregon but has allowed protesters of the Dakota Access Pipeline in North Dakato largely off the hook. (Associated Press)

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Inspector General John F. Sopko's report paints a grim picture of women's rights and the general situation in Afghanistan 15 years after U.S. military intervention. (Associated Press) ** FILE **

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FILE - In this Jan. 18, 2008 file photo, David Brooks leaves the federal courthouse in Central Islip, N.Y. On Thursday, Oct. 27, 2016, Brooks, the founder of America’s leading supplier of body armor to the U.S. military, died in prison while serving a 17-year sentence for running a massive stock fraud scheme. He was 61. (AP Photo/Newsday, Howard Schnapp, File) NO SALES; NYC OUT /Newsday via AP)

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Robert Seidel III, a U.S. Army officer killed in action in Iraq in 2006, depicted here in his West Point uniform. He was only 23. On Oct. 29, 2016, his hometown of Emmitsburg, Md., is dedicating a bridge in his honor. Photo via http://www.west-point.org/users/usma2004/61098/

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Women carry a boy over a wall as civilians flee their houses in the village of Tob Zawa, Iraq, about 9 kilometers (5.6 miles) from Mosul, Tuesday, Oct. 25, 2016, as Iraq's elite counterterrorism forces fight against Islamic State militants. (AP Photo/Khalid Mohammed)

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Humberto de La Calle, left, head of Colombia's government peace negotiation team, listens as Ivan Marquez, chief negotiator of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) reads a joint statement in Havana, Cuba, Friday, Oct. 28, 2016. The statement said many new proposals have been incorporated in the text of a new peace accord after voters narrowly defeated the deal on Oct. 2. (AP Photo/Desmond Boylan)

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Screen capture from an August WHNT news report on the death of U.S. Army Maj. Gen. John Rossi, who was found dead in his Alabama home on July 31. On Oct. 28, 2016, the Army confirmed that an investigation determined Rossi committed suicide.

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This photo released online on Friday, Oct. 28, 2016, by the website of the al Qaeda-linked Fatah al-Sham, an anti-government militant group, shows fighters from the al Qaeda-linked Fatah al-Sham Front preparing for the offensive on government positions in the northern Syrian province of Aleppo. Fierce fighting broke out around the northern Syrian city of Aleppo Friday as rebels announced a large-scale offensive to break the government's nearly two-month siege of opposition-held areas. Arabic, bottom, reads: "Holy warriors getting ready for the battle to break the siege of Aleppo." (militant photo via AP)

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Internally displaced persons clear a checkpoint in Qayara, some 50 kilometers south of Mosul, Iraq, Wednesday, Oct. 26, 2016. Islamic State militants have been going door to door in farming communities south of Mosul, ordering people at gunpoint to follow them north into the city and apparently using them as human shields as they retreat from Iraqi forces. Witnesses to the forced evacuation describe scenes of chaos as hundreds of people were driven north across the Ninevah plains and into the heavily-fortified city, where the extremists are believed to be preparing for a climactic showdown. (AP Photo/Marko Drobnjakovic)