War_Conflict

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Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) party leader, Julius Malema, addresses supporters at the launch of their municipal election manifesto in Soweto, Saturday, April 30, 2016. Fiery South African opposition politician Malema told 40,000 cheering supporters that President Jacob Zuma should step down before the army turns on him because of the corruption allegations against him. (AP Photo/Denis Farrell)

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Civilians inspect the scene of car bombing at an open-air market selling fruit, vegetables and meat in Baghdad's southeast suburb of Nahrawan, Iraq, Saturday, April 30, 2016. The Islamic State group claimed responsibility for a bombing Saturday east of Baghdad, according to a statement posted on an IS-affiliated website. The attack and wounded scores of civilians according to Iraqi police and hospital officials. The IS statement described the attack as a three-ton truck bombing. (AP Photo/Ali Abdul Hassan)

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"Captain America: Civil War"

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UTAS XTR - from a Turkish company specializing in firearms design comes a new 12-gauge, AR-15 style shotgun with semi-automatic gas-piston operation. Detachable five, eight or 10 round magazine

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South Sudan's First Vice President Riek Machar, left, looks across at President Salva Kiir, as the two sit to be photographed following the first meeting of a new transitional coalition government, in the capital Juba, South Sudan Friday, April 29, 2016. The two leaders have formed a transitional coalition government including politicians from the government and the armed opposition who have been at war for the last two and a half years. (AP Photo/Jason Patinkin)

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Vice President Joseph R. Biden, who slipped into Iraq on an unannounced trip, pressed Baghdad on Thursday not to let its crippling political crisis upend hard-fought gains against the Islamic State group as he returned to the country that's come to symbolize America's relentless struggles in the Middle East. (Associated Press photographs)

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Defense Secretary Ashton Carter, testifying on Capitol Hill, was taken to task over the administration's characterization of anti-Islamic State operations in Syria and Iraq as a noncombat mission.

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A man carries a child after airstrikes hit Aleppo, Syria, on Thursday. A Syrian monitoring group and a first-responders team say new airstrikes on the rebel-held part of the contested city of Aleppo have killed over a dozen people and brought down at least one residential building. (Associated Press)

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Three Buddhist monks caught in a now-viral video brawling outside the Ningguo Temple in East China have reportedly been expelled from the monastery. (CCTV News)

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Hon. Mention in the Portrait Personality category: Pvt. Charles Lemieux, 2nd Division, Canadian Army Reserve soldier, poses for a photo while wearing his night optical device for a light machine gun night fire event during the 2015 Canadian Armed Forces Small Arms Concentration at the Connaught Range outside of Ottawa, Canada, Sept. 14. The marksmanship competition brought in more than 250 total competitors from the British, Canadian and U.S. armed forces competing in more than 50 matches involving rifle, pistol and light machine gun events using various combat-like movements and scenarios. IMAGE: MASTER SGT. MICHEL A. SAURET. USA

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3rd Place in the News category: 38th Chief of Staff of the Army Gen. Raymond T. Odierno, Secretary of Defense Ashton B. Carter, Secretary of the Army John M. McHugh, 18th Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Martin E. Dempsey, and 39th Chief of Staff of the Army Mark A. Milley stand in line prior to the start of the United States Army Change of Responsibility ceremony held at Summerall Field in Fort Myer, Va., Aug. 14, 2015. Gen. Raymond T. Odierno relinquished command of the U.S. Army to Gen. Mark A. Milley during the ceremony hosted by Secretary of the Army John M. McHugh. IMAGE: STAFF SGT. SEAN K. HARP, USA

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2nd place in the Combat Operations category: Soldiers from Alpha Company, 1st Armored Battalion, 77th Armored Regiment 3rd Armored Brigade Combat Team, 1st Armored Division, East Africa Response Force (EARF) bound to cover by section during a live fire training exercise at the Arta training range in Djibouti, May 30, 2015. The EARF is a quick reaction force designed to defend U.S. assets within the Combined Joint Task Force Horn of Africa area of responsibility. IMAGE: STAFF SGT. GREGORY BROOK, USA

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1st place in the Sports Photography category: Two soldiers play catch with a football while a fellow soldier watches the perimeter of the training grounds during the Expert Field Medic Badge course at Joint Base Lewis-McChord, Wash., Sept. 24, 2015. The EFMB is the non-combat equivalent of the Combat Medical Badge and is awarded to medical personnel of the U.S. military who successfully complete a set of qualification tests. IMAGE: SENIOR AIRMAN JORDAN A. CASTELAN, USAF

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3rd Place in the Features category: U.S. Army Reserve combat engineer Soldiers from the 374th Engineer Company (Sapper), headquartered in Concord, Calif., take a break in the rain while waiting for their rappelling training to resume as part of a Sapper Leader Course Prerequisite Training in July at Camp San Luis Obispo Military Installation, Calif. The unit is grading its Soldiers on various events to determine which ones will earn a spot on a "merit list" to attend the Sapper Leader Course at Fort Leonard Wood, Mo. IMAGE: MASTER SGT. MICHEL A. SAURET, USA

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2nd place in the Combat Operations category: Soldiers from Alpha Company, 1st Armored Battalion, 77th Armored Regiment 3rd Armored Brigade Combat Team, 1st Armored Division, East Africa Response Force (EARF) bound to cover by section during a live fire training exercise at the Arta training range in Djibouti, May 30, 2015. The EARF is a quick reaction force designed to defend U.S. assets within the Combined Joint Task Force Horn of Africa area of responsibility. IMAGE: STAFF SGT. GREGORY BROOK, USA

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Russian soldiers carefully check for mines inside Palmyra in Syria's Homs province. The ancient city was recaptured from Islamic State militants in an offensive that proved Russia's military might in the militant stronghold despite a drawdown of warplanes. (Associated Press)