War_Conflict

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This recently restored home of Mary Thompson in Gettysburg, Pa., was once a staging ground for General Robert E. Lee and his men before and during the Battle of Gettysburg in 1863, Thursday, Oct. 27, 2016. The 4-acre property had been privately owned ever since the Civil War’s bloodiest battle, sprouting a motel, restaurant and other modern structures that dismayed preservationists and history buffs.James Lighthizer, president of Civil War Trust, says it was “one of the most important unprotected historic buildings in America.” (AP Photo/Timothy Jacobsen)

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Illustration on conflicting narratives for a solution in the Israeli/Palestinian conflict by Linas Garsys/The Washington Times

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A soldier with Iraq's elite counterterrorism force, left, inspects a tunnel made by Islamic State militants in Bartella, Iraq, Thursday, Oct. 27, 2016. The town of Bartella in northern Iraq lays about 20 kilometres east of Mosul. (AP Photo/Ali Abdul Hassan)

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Demonstrators stand next to burning tires as armed soldiers and law enforcement officers assemble on Thursday, Oct. 27, 2016, to force Dakota Access pipeline protesters off private land where they had camped to block construction. The pipeline is to carry oil from western North Dakota through South Dakota and Iowa to an existing pipeline in Patoka, Ill. (Mike McCleary/The Bismarck Tribune via AP)

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Islamic cleric Fethullah Gulen is accused of orchestrating the coup attempt last year of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan. (Associated Press/File)

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Infantry qualified officers wait for family and friends after a graduation ceremony at Fort Benning, Georgia, October 26, 2016. (Facebook, U.S. Army)

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Displaced people walk on a road in the village of Al Hut, some 40 kilometers south of Mosul, Iraq, Thursday, Oct. 27, 2016. The U.N. says it is closely monitoring the Mosul operation and the treatment of internally displaced civilians, or IDPs. (AP Photo/Marko Drobnjakovic)

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A lift truck driver uploads family tents for the Mosul refugees at the UNHCR warehouses, part of the International Humanitarian City (IHC) in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, Thursday, Oct. 27, 2016. The United Nations' refugee agency is shipping tents, blankets and other aid from the United Arab Emirates to northern Iraq to help those affected by the U.S.-led push to retake Mosul from the Islamic State group. (AP Photo/Kamran Jebreili)

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In this picture taken on Tuesday, Oct. 18, 2016, soldiers demonstrate a search for ammunition at the Brdy reserve in Brdy, Czech Republic. A former military zone near Prague which the army used to do artillery training has been turning into a protected nature reserve and opening to the public after almost a century with a big politics decision behind it. (AP Photo/Petr David Josek)

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In this Nov. 15, 2011, file photo former U.S. Rep. Joe Walsh, R-Ill., gestures during a news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster, File)

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Illustration on NATO fiscal responsibility by Alexander Hunter/The Washington Times

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In this photo provided by the Defense Department, taken Oct. 23, 2016, Defense Secretary Ash Carter listens as U.S. Army Lt. Gen. Stephen Townsend, commander of Combined Joint Task Force-Operation Inherent Resolve, speaks during a news conference in Erbil, Iraq. Townsend, the commander of the U.S.-led coalition against the Islamic State group says there’s an urgent need to encircle the extremists’ stronghold in the Syrian city of Raqqa because of intelligence warnings that attacks on Western targets are being plotted there. (U.S. Air Force Tech. Sgt. Brigitte N. Brantley/DoD via AP)

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An Iraqi Federal Police vehicle passes through 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)

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U.S. Secretary of Defence, Ash Carter, arrives for a meeting of the North Atlantic Council Defence Ministers session at NATO headquarters in Brussels, Wednesday, Oct. 26, 2016. NATO defence ministers are meeting in Brussels to discuss tense relations with Russia, how to help Middle East nations combat extremism and cooperation between the military alliance and the European Union. (AP Photo/Geert Vanden Wijngaert)

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This image released by Electronic Arts shows a scene from the video game, "Battlefield 1." (Electronic Arts via AP)

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Soldiers give the first aid to a boy injured during the clashes between Iraq's elite counterterrorism forces and Islamic State militiants in the village of Tob Zawa, about 9 kilometers (5½ miles) from Mosul, Iraq, Tuesday, Oct. 25, 2016. Iraqi forces battled Islamic State fighters for a third day in a remote western town far from Mosul on Tuesday, but the U.S.-led coalition insisted the latest in a series of "spoiler attacks" had not forced it to divert resources from the fight to retake Iraq's second-largest city. (AP Photo/Qassim Abdul-Zahra)

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This undated photo released by the Delaware State Police shows Chelsea M. Porter. Porter and another suspect who were wanted on felony warrants in Delaware and who were armed with what appeared to be handguns but were later determined to be BB guns, were fatally shot, Oct 25, 2016, in Elton, Md., when both ignored commands of a police fugitive team and raised their guns at officers attempting to arrest them at a Cecil County motel. (Delaware State Police via AP)

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In this Monday, Oct. 24, 2016 photo, a woman is consoled by others as San Francisco Police guard a door after the fatal shooting of a man in San Francisco. The San Francisco Chronicle reports that Kevin Joseph Epps, a San Francisco filmmaker and community activist, has been arrested on suspicion of homicide and being a felon in possession of a firearm. (Liz Hafalia/San Francisco Chronicle via AP)

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Missile Attack Illustration by Greg Groesch/The Washington Times

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U.S. Defense Secretary Ash Carter, left, and French Defense Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian, center, greet Belgian Defense Minister Steven Vandeput, right, upon arrivals for a meeting by dozen members of the US-led coalition fighting Islamic State in Iraq and Syria in Paris, Tuesday, Oct. 25, 2016. France's president calls on the U.S. and other allies fighting Islamic State extremists in Iraq to remain vigilant and share intelligence to prevent potential reprisals from the group. (Charles Platiau/Pool Photo via AP)