War_Conflict

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Demonstrators chant slogans during ongoing protests, in Tahrir Square, Baghdad, Iraq, Monday, Feb. 24, 2020. (AP Photo/Hadi Mizban)

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Defense Secretary Mark Esper told Senate Armed Services Committee Chairman James Inhofe that he has no intention of decreasing the U.S. troop presence in Africa. (ASSOCIATED PRESS)

CORRECTS BYLINE TO KEITH RIDLER, NOT KEN RITTER - Charles Nielsen, 58, and his 11-year-old granddaughter, Bailey Nielsen, testify before a House panel at the Idaho Statehouse on Monday. Feb. 24, 2020 in Boise, Idaho. Visitors to Idaho 18 and older who can legally possess firearms would be allowed to carry a concealed handgun within city limits under legislation that headed to the House on Monday, Feb. 24. (AP Photo/Keith Ridler)

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Illustration on the peace process in Afghanistan by Alexander Hunter/The Washington Times

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Paratroopers assigned to the 2nd Brigade Combat Team, 82nd Airborne Division, moves fire the M240B machine gun during a combined arms live-fire exercise in support of Swift Response 19 in Novo Selo Training Area, Bulgaria, June 23, 2019. (U.S. Defense Department photo).

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A U.S. Soldier with the 11th Armored Cavalry Regiment surveys the battlefield with a simulated Barrett M107 .50 caliber Sniper Rifle in the city of Razish, National Training Center, Fort Irwin, California, July 12, 2019. (U.S. Defense Department photo.)

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U.S. Army budget documents show the service's desire to make Barrett Firearms its go-to company for recision Sniper Rifles (PSR). (Image: YouTube, Barrett FirearmsUSA promotional video screenshot)

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The U.S. Pacific Air Force flew two B-52 nuclear-capable bombers near Taiwan in an apparent response to China's flyover. (U.S. Navy file photo)

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"Anybody making personal attacks against anybody else in my name is not part of our movement," Sen. Bernard Sanders said about the harassment. (Associated Press)

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The U.S. Army's fiscal year 2021 budget request includes the resources to purchase over 40,000 Integrated Visual Augmentation Systems (IVAS). The goggles allow troops to scan the battlefield while taking in additional information such as thermal signatures. (Image: U.S. Army)

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200212-N-EA818-0055 PACIFIC OCEAN (Feb. 12, 2020) An unarmed Trident II (D5LE) missile launches from the Ohio-class ballistic missile submarine USS Maine (SSBN 741) off the coast of San Diego, California, Feb. 12, 2020. The test launch was part of the U.S. Navy Strategic Systems Programs demonstration and shakedown operation certification process. The successful launch demonstrated the readiness of the SSBNs strategic weapon system and crew following the submarines engineered refueling overhaul. This launch marks 177 successful missile launches of the Trident II (D5 & D5LE) strategic weapon system. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class Thomas Gooley/Released)

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Almost $175 million in foreign funding flooded the top 50 U.S. think tanks from 2014 to 2018, according to a recent report. (Associated Press)

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Illustration on Palestinian obsolescence by Linas Garsys/The Washington Times

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A man wails after a government airstrike in the city of Idlib, Syria, Tuesday, Feb. 11, 2020. The latest violence in Idlib came as government forces came closer to capturing the last rebel-held part of a strategic highway linking southern and northern Syria, which would bring the road under Syrian President Bashar Assad's full control for the first time since 2012. (AP Photo/Ghaith Alsayed)

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The latest violence in Idlib, Syria, came as government forces came closer to capturing the last rebel-held part of a strategic highway linking southern and northern Syria, which would bring the road under Syrian President Bashar Assad's full control for the first time since 2012. (ASSOCIATED PRESS PHOTOGRAPHS)

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In this Tuesday, May 9, 2017, file photo, Russian Topol M intercontinental ballistic missile launcher rolls along Red Square during the Victory Day military parade to celebrate 72 years since the end of WWII and the defeat of Nazi Germany, in Moscow, Russia. (AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko, File)

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Workers wearing protective gear spray disinfectant as a precaution against a new coronavirus at a theater in Seoul, South Korea, on Thursday. More than two dozen U.S. forces and other deployed Americans are quarantined over virus exposure concerns. (ASSOCIATED PRESS)