War_Conflict

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In this image posted on the official Twitter account of the directorate of the Saudi Civil Defense agency, a pilgrim is treated by a medic after a stampede that killed and injured pilgrims in the holy city of Mina during the annual hajj pilgrimage on Thursday, Sept. 24, 2015. (Directorate of the Saudi Civil Defense agency via AP)

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As the U.S. military maintains a presence in the Baltic states and Poland, a propaganda war is raging in Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania to reach Russian minorities. (Associated Press)

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Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos and leftist guerrilla commanders are announcing an important breakthrough in peace talks that sets the stage to end Latin America's longest-running armed conflict. (Associated Press)

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Illustration on ISIS slaughter of Christians in Iraq and Syria by Linas Garsys/The Washington Times

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The Transportation Security Administration is investigating a claim by Shadi Petosky, a transgender woman who says she was treated unfairly at an airport security checkpoint. (Twitter/@ShadiPetosky)

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Members of the Armed Forces Full Honor Cordon from the Military District of Washington practice for the arrival of Pope Francis, Tuesday, Sept. 22, 2015, at Andrews Air Force Base in Md. The Pope is spending three days in Washington before heading to New York and Philadelphia. This is the Pope's first visit to the United States. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

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Researchers in Syria have requested the first withdrawal of seeds from the Global Seed Bank in Svalbard after a four-year civil war has left the seed bank in Aleppo unable to provide crop seeds to Middle Easter countries. (image: screen grab www.croptrust.org)

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Hungarian soldiers work on a fence that is being built at the border with Croatia, near the village of Beremend, Hungary, Tuesday, Sept. 22, 2015. Hungary's prime minister Viktor Orban said that millions of migrants are "laying siege" to the borders of his country and of Europe, putting the continent in danger. (AP Photo/Petr David Josek)

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State police Troop H Commander Adam Kosheba speaks during a press conference at the at state police Troop H, Harrisburg station, Monday, Sept. 21, 2015 in West Hanover Township, Pa. The Pennsylvania State Police, and the Franklin County District Attorney’s Office, announced the arrest of John Wayne Strawser Jr., of West Virginia, for murder in the Jan. 4, 2014, shooting incident on Interstate 81 in Franklin County that left Timothy "Asti" Davison dead. (Dan Gleiter/PennLive.com via AP)

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Royce de R. Barondes, an associate professor of law at the University of Missouri, is challenging the campus' policy that "the possession of firearms on university property is prohibited except in regularly approved programs or by university agents or employees in the line of duty." (Associated Press)

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Police officers escort a key suspect in last month's Bangkok bombing. Identified by Thai police as Yusufu Mieraili, the suspect was traveling on a Chinese passport, but his nationality remains unconfirmed. (Associated PRess)

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A visitor makes an offering for Phra Phrom, the Thai interpretation of the Hindu god Brahma at the Erawan Shrine, the scene of the Aug. 17 bombing, in Bangkok, Wednesday, Sept. 9, 2015. Thai police have escorted one of the key suspects in last month's deadly Bangkok bombing to the scene of the attack Wednesday, for a public re-enactment of his alleged crime that left 20 people dead and and more than 120 injured. (AP Photo/Mark Baker)

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Palestinians run as Israeli troops use a water canon to disperse protesters during clashes in Jalazoun refugee camp, near the West Bank city of Ramallah, Friday, Sept. 18, 2015. Palestinian protesters continued clashing with Israeli security forces on Friday in various parts of the West Bank and east Jerusalem. (AP Photo/Majdi Mohammed) ** FILE **

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Iranian women hold anti-Israeli placards at a protest after Friday prayer service in Tehran, Iran, Friday, Sept. 18, 2015. Hundreds of worshipers staged an anti-Israeli protest for its response to Palestinians protest against unusual numbers of Jewish visitors at Al-Aqsa mosque compound in recent days. Chanting “Death to Israel” and “Death to the U.S.,” demonstrators condemned an “Israeli invasion to Al-Aqsa” mosque. State TV said similar protests were held in several other major Iranian cities. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi)

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Which Pope is remembered as a "prophet of peace" for intervening for peace during World War I?

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Which Pope was drafted into the German army at age 16?

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Pakistani commandos arrive at an air force base in Peshawar, Pakistan, Friday, Sept. 18, 2015. Militants in northwestern Pakistan attacked an air force base on the outskirts of Peshawar early Friday, triggering a shootout that left at least 20 wounded and six of the attackers dead, officials said. (AP Photo/Mohammad Sajjad)

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U.S. Park Police enter St. Elizabeth?s Hospital in Washington on Monday, Oct. 20, 1980 ending a six hour takeover by Cuban refugees who were transferred to the hospital for psychiatric observation. (AP Photo/Barry Thumma)

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In this Sept. 16, 2015, photo, U.S. Central Command Commander Gen. Lloyd Austin III, testifies on Capitol Hill in Washington. The Obama administration is preparing a major overhaul of its failed effort to train thousands of moderate Syrian rebels to fight the Islamic State group, shifting from preparing rebels for frontline combat to a plan to embed them with established Kurdish and Arab forces in northeastern Syria, U.S. officials said. The discussion of a new approach comes a day after Austin, told Congress that the $500 million effort to train 5,000 moderate Syrian rebels in a year had yielded "four or five" new fighters after another 50 or so were captured, wounded or fled in their first encounter with extremist militants. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)