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The U.S. fired more than 100 cruise missiles from the sea while French fighter jets targeted Gadhafi's forces from the air, launching the broadest international military effort since the Iraq War in support of an uprising that had seemed on the verge of defeat. Gadhafi pleaded with the U.S. to stop the NATO airstrikes.

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Losing control: Col. Moammar Gadhafi ruled Libya with an iron fist, but U.S. military leaders were looking for a way to avoid a power vacuum.

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Echoes of the past: Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton recalled the Rwanda genocide in making her case for U.S. intervention in Libya. (Associated Press Photographs)

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U.S. Ambassador Susan E. Rice voted to approve a resolution to impose a no-fly zone over Libya and authorize "all necessary measures" to protect Libyan civilians from attacks by government forces. She and National Security Council member Samantha Power joined Hillary Rodham Clinton's campaign against Gadhafi.

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As part of his #itsAaron campaign, Green Bay Packers quarterback Aaron Rodgers surprised a group of children who have lost a parent serving in the U.S. military. (YouTube/itsAaron)

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Illustration on the failed policy of enemy combatant internment by Alexander Hunter/The Washington Times

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Israeli soldiers secure the Israel-Lebanon border, Wednesday, Jan. 28, 2015. The Lebanese Hezbollah group is claiming responsibility for today’s attack on an Israeli military convoy. Hezbollah claims the attack destroyed a number of Israeli vehicles and caused casualties among "enemy ranks." Israel later fired at least 35 artillery shells into Lebanon. (AP Photo/Ariel Schalit)

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National Edition News cover for January 28, 2015 - Nigerian elections could put Christians in danger: Pall bearers carry the coffins of those killed in a Christmas Day bombing at a Catholic church in Madalla, Nigeria, on Wednesday, Feb. 1, 2012. Mourners wept as they carried out the mass burial Wednesday the church near Nigeria's capital where dozens died in a Christmas Day bombing by a radical Islamist sect. (AP Photo/Sunday Aghaeze)

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Saturday's rocket strikes at Mariupol, Ukraine destroyed a market and killed 30 people. (Associated Press)

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People stand near blood stains in the street following last night's explosion in Kano, Nigeria, Monday, May 19, 2014. A car bomb exploded in the Christian neighborhood of Nigeria's second most populous and mainly Muslim city of Kano on Sunday night, killing at least four people, police said. Five people were wounded. Police Superintendent Aderenle Shinaba said the car exploded Sunday night before the bomber reached his target of the busy restaurants and bars lining Gold Coast Street, indicating the casualties could have been much higher. It was unclear if the bomber was among them. (AP Photo)

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German Chancellor Angela Merkel said during a visit to Hungary on Monday that her nation will not provide military hardware to Ukraine and asserted that the war with Russia-backed forces "cannot be solved militarily." (Associated Press)

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Flowers lie on a concrete slab of the Holocaust Memorial to mark the International Holocaust Remembrance Day and commemorating the 70th anniversary of the liberation of the Nazi Auschwitz death camp in Berlin, Tuesday, Jan. 27, 2015. (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber)

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Film director Steven Spielberg leaves after attending the unveiling of a memorial plaque at the Auschwitz Nazi death camp in Oswiecim, Poland, Tuesday, Jan. 27, 2015. Some 300 Holocaust survivors traveled to Auschwitz for the 70th anniversary of the death camp's liberation by the Soviet Red Army in 1945, down from 1,500 who attended the event 10 years ago. (AP Photo/Alik Keplicz)

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Barbed wire fences surround detention buildings at the Auschwitz Nazi death camp in Oswiecim, Poland, Monday, Jan. 26, 2015. A decade ago, 1,500 Holocaust survivors traveled to Auschwitz to mark the 60th anniversary of the death camp's liberation. On Tuesday, for the 70th anniversary, organizers are expecting 300, the youngest in their 70s. (AP Photo/Alik Keplicz)

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A Libyan military soldier walks past damage inside a building that was used by Islamic militias for fighting in Benghazi, Libya. (Associated Press) ** FILE **

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"Donut Dollies" member Kammy McCleery, is greeted with a hug by a Vietnam War veteran during a parade in Washington, Saturday, Nov. 10, 2007, in commemoration of the Veterans Day, on Sunday. Donut Dollies served as a recreation worker with the American Red Cross in Vietnam. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)

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National Edition News cover for January 26, 2015 - ‘Apartheid’ in France’s Muslim neighborhoods: FILE - In this Friday Jan. 9, 2015 file photo, a French police officer stands guard outside the Grand Mosque as people arrive for Friday prayers, Paris. Firebombs and pigs' heads are being tossed at mosques and women in veils have been insulted in a surge of anti-Muslim acts since last week's murderous assault on the newsroom of a satirical Paris paper, according to a Muslim who tracks such incidents in France. France's large Muslim population risks becoming collateral damage in the aftermath of the three attacks by French radical Islamists who killed 17 people. Muslims in other European countries also won't be spared, some Muslim leaders and experts say. Concern about a backlash against Muslims was discussed Monday Jan. 13, 2015, during a meeting on counter-terrorism measures at the Interior Ministry. (AP Photo/Michel Euler, File)

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Houthi fighters patrolled the streets during a demonstration to show support for their comrades in Sanaa, Yemen, on Friday. Some of the thousands of protesters supported the Shiite rebels who seized the capital, and others demanded that the country's south secede after the nation's president and Cabinet resigned. (Associated Press)