War_Conflict

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Monuments at Winstead Hill, which was General Hood's command post during the Battle of Franklin. (Photo courtesy of Judson Phillips)

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Carnton Plantation at the Eastern Flank battlefield was used as a hospital after the battle and the bodies of 5 confederate generals were brought here.

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The History Presbyterian Church that was used by union forces as a hospital after the battle of Franklin.

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In this handout photograph from the US Navy, US service members deployed to the Naval Support Facility (NSF) Deveselu, groups center and right, bow their heads with members of the Romanian Military, left, during a religious moment of the establishment and assumption of command ceremony in Deveselu, Romania, Friday, Oct. 10, 2014. The NSF Deveselu Base, established more than 20 years ago, will be part of the Aegis Ballistic Missile Defense (BMD) System. The US Navy has taken control of a new missile defense base in southern Romania, one of two European land-based interceptor sites for a NATO missile shield which Russia strongly opposes.(AP Photo/U.S. Navy / LT j.g. Alexander Perrien, Handout)

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A (muslim) mosque and (jewish) synagoge peacefully next to each other in Suriname's capital city of Paramaribo. (Photo: Courtesy Government of Suriname)

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Turkish soldiers on a tank hold their position on a hilltop on the outskirts of Suruc, at the Turkey-Syria border, overlooking Kobani, Syria, during fighting between Syrian Kurds and the militants of Islamic State group, Thursday, Oct. 9, 2014.

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Shafi Khan (right) and Zarine Khan (center), parents of Mohammed Hamzah Khan, meet with the family's attorney, Thomas Dirkin before Mr. Khan's detention hearing in federal court in Chicago Thursday. The 19-year-old suburban man, accused of seeking to travel to Syria to join Islamic State militants, is charged with attempting to provide material support to foreign terrorists. (AP Photo/Charles Rex Arbogast)

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Turkish soldiers on a tank hold their position on a hilltop on the outskirts of Suruc, at the Turkey-Syria border, overlooking Kobani, Syria, during fighting between Syrian Kurds and the militants of Islamic State group, Thursday, Oct. 9, 2014. The fighting over Kobani has brought Syria's civil war yet again to Turkey's doorstep and allies have tried to press Ankara to take a more robust role in the U.S.-led coalition to fight the Islamic State group. (AP Photo/Lefteris Pitarakis)

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Back when military conflicts had names, U.S. Army troops in Afghanistan in December 2009 carry out Operation Enduring Freedom. (U.S. Air Force)

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Militants with the Islamic State with a machine gun-fitted pickup truck hold positions in Kobani, Syria, during intensified fighting with Syrian Kurds. The Pentagon predicted that more towns in Syria and Iraq will fall to the terrorist group in the coming weeks. (Associated Press)

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Islamic State demonstrators chant pro-al Qeada messages in Mosul. According to U.S. counterterrorism officials, both the North Africa-based al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb and Yemen-based al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula have seen defections to the Islamic State in recent weeks. (Associated Press)

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Racial tensions simmered outside Busch Stadium in St. Louis Monday night as Cardinals fans clashed with Ferguson protesters, who were there demonstrating for slain teen, Michael Brown. (Argus Streaming News)

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FILE - In this Monday, Sept. 22, 2014 file photo, a group of the Iranian Kurds, members of the Basij paramilitary force, march during an annual military parade marking the 34th anniversary of outset of the 1980-88 Iran-Iraq war, in front of the mausoleum of the late revolutionary founder Ayatollah Khomeini just outside Tehran, Iran. The Kurds of Syria and Iraq have become a major focal point in the war against the Islamic State group, with Kurdish populations in both countries coming under significant threat by the militants’ lightening advance. The cooperation between Kurds in these countries underscores their loyalty, not to the nations in which they live, but to the shared dream of one day establishing an independent and unified Kurdistan, or Land of the Kurds. (AP Photo/Ebrahim Noroozi, File)

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The FBI is reportedly investigating Islamic State graffiti that has been cropping up in several places around Washington, D.C. (Twitter/Jennifer Williams)

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claim: Militants with the Islamic State plant a hilltop flag near the town of Kobani along the Syrian-Turkish border. (associated press)

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Kobani, also known as Ayn Arab, has been under attack since mid-September, with militants capturing dozens of nearby Syrian Kurdish villages. The Islamic State flag indicates the jihadi may have regrouped and broken through Kurdish defense lines. (associated press)

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refugees: Nearly 1,600 migrants fleeing lands controlled by the Islamic State have died in transit to Europe in the past three months alone. (associated press)

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About 40 gun-toting demonstrators gathered in front of the Beavercreek, Ohio, Walmart to protest the Aug. 5 police shooting of 22-year-old John Crawford III. (Twitter/@guncultureworld)

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National Edition News cover for October 6, 2014 - U.S. bombs have stalled, not stopped Islamic State: Islamic State militants passing a checkpoint bearing the group's trademark black flag in the village of Maryam Begg in Kirkuk, 290 kilometers (180 miles) north of Baghdad, Iraq, Monday, Sept. 29, 2014. (AP Photo/Hadi Mizban)