War_Conflict

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U.S. Army Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl leaves the courthouse Tuesday, Dec. 22, 2015, after his arraignment hearing at Fort Bragg, N.C. (Andrew Craft /The Fayetteville Observer via AP) ** FILE **

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This photo provided by the New York City Police Department shows Detective Joseph Lemm. Police Commissioner William Bratton said on Monday, Dec. 21, 2015, that Lemm is one of six American troops killed in a suicide attack near Bagram Airfield in Afghanistan. (New York City Police Department via AP)

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Donald Trump has been a target for Democrats' attacks throughout the campaign. But the attacks have grown sharper as he defied predictions that his unconventional campaign would flare out and remained atop most polls. (Associated Press)

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Illustration on Obama's blind spot on Islamic terror by Linas Garsys/The Washington Times

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In this Nov. 5, 2010, file photo, an Afghan farmer threshes hay in Sangin, Afghanistan. Taliban gunmen have overrun a strategic district in the southern province of Helmand, delivering a serious blow to government forces, Afghan officials said on Monday, Dec. 21, 2015. (AP Photo/Dusan Vranic, File) ** FILE **

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House Speaker Paul D. Ryan, Wisconsin Republican, cajoled 150 from his party to join Democrats in voting for the spending measure, earning more support from his usually rebellious troops than Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, Kentucky Republican, was able to manage in the more staid upper chamber. (Associated Press)

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A truck carrying a container from the Danish vessel Ark Futura drives into the hold of the U.S.-owned MV Cape Ray at the Gioia Tauro port in southern Italy in 2014. The Danish ship carrying hundreds of tons of Syrian chemical weapons rendezvouses with a U.S. cargo vessel that will destroy the toxic material. (Associated Press)

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Signs reading "Toxic" and "Corrosive" are stuck to containers carrying Syrian chemical weapons aboard the Danish cargo ship Ark Futura in Cyprus coastal waters as they are transported out of the strife-torn country on May 13, 2014. (Associated Press)

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FILE - This file image made from video broadcast on Syrian State Television on Tuesday, Oct. 8, 2013, purports to show a chemical weapons expert taking samples at a chemical weapons plant at an unknown location in Syria. Two years after President Bashar Assad agreed to destroy his chemical arsenal and joined the Chemical Weapons Convention, activists said they have documented 18 cases of chlorine gas used in the country's rebel-held north since March 6, 2015, when the U.N. issued a resolution determining that chlorine was used in Syria and warning of repercussions. (AP Photo/Syrian State Television via AP video, File)

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Guards patrol inside Joint Task Force Guantanamo's Camp Six, Aug. 25. Camp Six is a maximum security facility which is modeled after a stateside federal prison. JTF Guantanamo conducts safe, humane, legal and transparent care and custody of detained enemy combatants, including those convicted by military commission and those ordered released. The JTF conducts intelligence collection, analysis and dissemination for the protection of detainees and personnel working in JTF Guantanamo facilities and in support of the Global War on Terror. JTF Guantanamo provides support to the Office of Military Commissions, to law enforcement and to war crimes investigations. The JTF conducts planning for and, on order, responds to Caribbean mass migration operations. (Department of Defense)

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"May the Force be with you." Han Solo/Harrison Ford in Star Wars (1977)

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“You can't fight in here! This is the War Room!” President Merkin Muffley/Peter Sellers in Dr Strangelove (1964)

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Rescuers search for survivors on a collapsed building following a landslide in Shenzhen, in south China's Guangdong province, Sunday, Dec. 20, 2015. (Associated Press)

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Somali Police Women march at the police academy compound during celebrations to mark the 72nd anniversary of the formation of the police force, in Mogadishu, Somalia, Sunday, Dec. 20, 2015. (AP Photo/Farah Abdi Warsameh)

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Police responded Saturday after shots were reportedly fired inside the East Towne Mall in Madison, Wisc. (Image: WISCTV)

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Chef Robert Irvine, best know from the TV shows Dinner: Impossible and Restaurant: Impossible, joined 2nd Battalion, 14th Infantry Regiment, "Golden Dragons," for some early morning physical training at Bagram, Afghanistan. Irvine hosted a show during his visit to Bagram Airfield. Video by Sgt. 1st Class Nathan Hutchison

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Christian sects and religious minorities face brutal persecution in areas controlled by the Islamic State. Activists say an official finding by the Obama administration that the persecution amounts to genocide should set in motion a number of legal and financial sanctions and give the issue a much greater urgency around the world. (Associated Press)

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George Washington and troops crossing the icy Delaware River.

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President Barack Obama, accompanied by, from left, Office of National Intelligence Director James Clapper, Vice President Joe Biden, and Secretary of State John Kerry, walks away from the podium after speaking at the National Counterterrorism Center in McLean, Va.,Thursday, Dec. 17, 2015. The president said U.S. intelligence and counter-terrorism professionals don't have any specific, credible information suggesting a terrorist attack on the U.S. during the holidays. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

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In this Dec. 16, 2015, file photo, Zoya Masoud, center, guides a group of refugees on a special tour through the Museum for Islamic Art, at the Pergamon museum in Berlin. (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber)