War_Conflict

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A Russian bomber drops bombs on a target in this image made from video provided by the Russian Defense Ministry. (Associated Press)

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Former director of the Saudi Arabia General Intelligence Directorate, Prince Turki Bin Faisal Al Saud, and a member of the board of the Beirut Institute, talk during a press conference in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, Sunday, Feb. 21, 2016. The prominent Saudi prince said Sunday that Muslim countries need to take the lead in fighting terrorism and that a recently announced Islamic counterterrorism alliance of 34 nations should have been created sooner. (AP Photo/Kamran Jebreili)

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Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu, centre, flanked by his deputy Numan Kurtulmus, left, and Interior Minister Efkan Ala, speaks to the media after a security meeting in Ankara, Turkey, Saturday, Feb. 20, 2016. Turkish authorities on Friday detained three more suspects in connection with the deadly bombing in Ankara that Turkey has blamed on Kurdish militants at home and in neighboring Syria, while Turkey's military pushed ahead with its cross-border artillery shelling campaign against U.S.-backed Syrian Kurdish militia positions in Syria.(AP Photo)

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Serbian Prime Minister Aleksandar Vucic gestures during a news conference in Belgrade, Serbia, Saturday, Feb. 20, 2016. Two Serbian embassy staffers held hostage since November died in Friday's U.S. airstrikes on an Islamic State camp in western Libya that killed dozens, Serbian officials said Saturday. (AP Photo/Darko Vojinovic)

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Turkish soldiers Thursday mourned Sgt. 1st Class Feyyaz Ilhan, one of the 28 people killed in an Ankara explosion Wednesday. The attack, blamed on a Kurdish group, raised tensions with the U.S. (Associated Press)

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Illustration on the factors leading to world war by Alexander Hunter/The Washington Times

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National Edition Opinion cover for February 17, 2016 - ‘Bystanders to genocide’ (Illustration by Linas Garsys for The Washington Times)

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challenger: Kizza Besigye, at a campaign rally to unseat Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni after 30 years, was tear-gassed and arrested by riot police Monday. (Associated Press)

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Illustration on the lack of U.S. intercession against acts of genocide by Linas Garsys/The Washington Times

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Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu, right, and Iranian Defense Minister Hossein Dehghan shake hands during their meeting in Moscow, Russia, Tuesday, Feb. 16, 2016. The Iranian defense minister is visiting Moscow for talks about closer military cooperation. (Vadim Savitsky/ Russian Defense Ministry Press Service pool photo via AP)

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In this undated photo released online in the summer of 2014 on a militant social media account, which has been verified and is consistent with other AP reporting, militants of the Islamic State group hold up their weapons and wave its flags on their vehicles in a convoy on a road leading to Iraq, in Raqqa, Syria. (Militant photo via AP, File)

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Violence in the West Bank in the past five months has soared, killing 174 Palestinians and injuring 10,000 others, while 26 Israelis have been killed and 440 wounded. (Associated Press)

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Dumbing Down the Military Illustration by Greg Groesch/The Washington Times

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A new report on female integration into the U.S. special armed forces found the male-dominated warrior culture may be adversely affected. (U.S. Navy)

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The Syrian military's response to rebel fighting has turned much of Aleppo's center to rubble. More than half of the city's inhabitants have fled, joining millions of other Syrians on the trail to refugee camps in neighboring nations or pursuing asylum in Europe. (Associated Press) ** FILE **

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Fighting around Syria's largest city of Aleppo has brought government forces closer to the Turkish border than at any point in recent years, routing rebels from key areas and creating a humanitarian disaster. (Associated Press)

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Soldiers set up a sign that reads in Portuguese, "A mosquito is not stronger than an entire country." More than 200,000 troops are fanning out across Brazil to show people how to eliminate the mosquito that spreads the Zika virus. (Associated Press)