War_Conflict

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Displaced Iraqi Christian girls who fled with their parents from the Christian village near Mosul province in Iraq, play by their balloons at a temporary shelter for the displaced Christian families in Ankawa, a suburb of Irbil, with a majority Christian population, Iraq. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla)

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FILE - This June 21, 2007 file photo show a MQ-1 Predator controlled by the 46th Expeditionary Reconnaissance Squadron stands on the tarmac at Balad Air Base, north of Baghdad, Iraq. A Pentagon official says the U.S. has started flying armed drones over Baghdad to protect U.S. civilians and military forces in the Iraqi capital. The official said the flights started in the last 24 to 48 hours to bolster manned and unmanned reconnaissance flights the military has been sending over violence-wracked Iraq in recent weeks. He spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to discuss the new flights on the record. (AP Photo/Maya Alleruzzo, File) **FILE**