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In this undated handout file photo provided by the U.S. Air Force, a MQ-9 Reaper, armed with GBU-12 Paveway II laser guided munitions and AGM-114 Hellfire missiles, is piloted by Col. Lex Turner during a combat mission over southern Afghanistan. (AP Photo/Lt. Col.. Leslie Pratt, US Air Force, File)
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Illustration on dealing with sexual assaults in the military by Donna Grethen/Tribune Content Agency
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Nigeria's President Goodluck Jonathan, speak to troops during a visit to Maiduguri, Nigeria, Thursday, Jan. 15, 2015. President Goodluck Jonathan, who is running for re-election next month, visited Maiduguri, the capital of Borno State, on Thursday in his first trip to the northeast since a state of emergency was imposed in May 2014. His office said in a statement that he met with troops involved in fighting the extremists as part of his "surprise visit." He also visited hundreds of civilians who were staying in a camp in Maiduguri after fleeing Baga.(AP Photo/Jossy Ola)
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Police investigate a shootout in a street in Verviers, Belgium, Thursday, Jan. 15, 2015. Belgian authorities say two people have been killed and one has been arrested during a shootout in an anti-terrorist operation in the eastern city of Verviers. (AP Photo / Geert Vanden Wijngaert)
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In this image made from video, members of the public stand behind police tape after security forces took part in anti-terrorist raids in Verviers, eastern Belgium. Belgian authorities say two people have been killed and one has been arrested during a shootout in an anti-terrorist operation in the eastern city of Verviers. (AP Photo/RTL - TVI) BELGIUM OUT
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Sgt. Jeremiah Walden, an infantry trainer assigned to A Co., 2nd Bn., 34th Armor Regt., 1st Armored Brigade Combat Team, 1st Infantry Division, adjusts an Iraqi trainee's weapon to ensure he's covering the correct sector of fire during infantry squad tactical training lanes Jan. 7 at Camp Taji, Iraq. Walden is one of over 150 "Dreadnaughts" of 2-34 who are advising several Iraqi Army battalions, providing new recruits advanced training and assisting Iraqi cadre by teaching small unit tactics and leadership. (U.S. Army photo by Master Sgt. Mike Lavigne, 1st Inf. Div. PAO)
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Taliban and al Qaeda detainees sit in a holding at Camp X-Ray at Naval Base Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, in this Jan. 11, 2002 photo. (Associated Press) ** FILE **
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Demonstrators march on Pennsylvania Avenue toward Capitol Hill in Washington, Saturday, Dec. 13, 2014, during the Justice for All march. More than 10,000 protesters are converging on Washington in an effort to bring attention to the deaths of unarmed black men at the hands of police. Civil rights organizations are holding a march to the Capitol on Saturday with the families of Michael Brown and Eric Garner, two unarmed black men who died in incidents with white police officers. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana)
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FILE - In this Sunday April. 21, 2013 file photo taken with a mobile phone, the ruins of burnt out houses stand in Baga village in Nigeria. Hundreds of bodies too many to count remain strewn in the bush in Nigeria from an Islamic extremist attack that Amnesty International suggested Friday is the "deadliest massacre" in the history of Boko Haram. Mike Omeri, the government spokesman on the insurgency, said fighting continued Friday for Baga, a town on the border with Chad where insurgents seized a key military base on Jan. 3 and attacked again on Wednesday. "Security forces have responded rapidly, and have deployed significant military assets and conducted airstrikes against militant targets," Omeri said in a statement. (AP Photo/Haruna Umar, file )
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Illustration on deploying U. S. Aircraft carriers to the Mediterranean Sea by Alexander Hunter/The Washington times
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Saudi soldiers look out from Mt. Doud, Wednesday Jan. 27, 2010, a high strategic position in the southern Saudi province of Jizan, near the border with Yemen, that was occupied by Houthi rebels from Yemen, and was retaken by the Saudi military a week ago. At least 133 Saudis soldiers died, mostly in the ground fighting to retake the strategic high ground on the frontier. It is not clear how many rebels were killed. Saudi joined the 5-year-old fight when Yemeni rebels crossed the border and killed two Saudi soldiers. The northern rebels have been battling Yemen's government since 2004 complaining of neglect and discrimination. (Associated Press) **FILE**
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Pope Francis, wearing a flower garland, waves to faithful as he arrives to Our Lady of Madhu shrine, in Madhu, Sri Lanka, Wednesday, Jan. 14, 2015. (AP Photo/Alessandra Tarantino, Pool)
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Rep. Ted Poe, Texas Republican, said North Korea's hack of Sony qualifies as a terrorist act and the country should be listed as a state sponsor of terrorism. (Associated Press)
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Boston Marathon bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, above in courtroom sketch, came to the U.S. with his family in 2002. (AP Photo/Jane Flavell Collins, File)
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Pope Francis receives a saffron-colored robe from Hindu Kurukkal SivaSri T. Mahadeva during a meeting of representatives of the major faiths on the island at Bandaranaike Memorial International center in Colombo, Sri Lanka, Tuesday, Jan. 13, 2015. (AP Photo/Ettore Ferrari, pool)
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Paris residents captured chilling video images after an attack at a French satirical newspaper. French officials are dealing with challenges of an evolving terrorist group. (Associated Press)
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Hackers claiming to be with the group Anonymous have taken credit for hacking a French jihadi website in retaliation for the terror attack on the Paris-based Charlie Hebdo magazine. (YouTube) ** FILE **
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Security officers escort released hostages after police stormed a Paris kosher market to end a hostage situation in this Jan. 9, 2015, file photo. (AP Photo/Michel Euler, File)
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Children stand near the scene of an explosion in a mobile phone market in Potiskum, Nigeria, Monday Jan. 12, 2015. Two female suicide bombers targeted the busy marketplace on Sunday. (AP Photo/Adamu Adamu)