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The Pentagon paid $3 million in 2010 to buy eight patrol boats to help Afghan National Security Forces secure their country's Amu Darya river border, but the boats were never given to the Afghan military.
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Drones are about to be used for much more than military missions, and states already are preparing. (ASSOCIATED PRESS)
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Fighters from the jihadist rebel group Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham march in Raqqa, Syria, from an undated photo released on a jihadist website Jan. 14, 2014. (Associated Press) **FILE**
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National Edition News cover for June 12, 2014 - Extremists’ gains in Iraq lead to fears of a decade’s progress lost: Militias of the al-Qaida breakaway group Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) deploy in an area in Tikrit, 80 miles (130 kilometers) north of Baghdad, Iraq, Wednesday, June 11, 2014. Al-Qaida-inspired militants seized effective control Wednesday of Saddam Hussein's hometown of Tikrit, expanding their offensive closer to the Iraqi capital as soldiers and security forces abandoned their posts following clashes with the insurgents. (AP Photo)
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REFUGEES: Iraqis fleeing Mosul arrive at Khazir refugee camp outside Irbil, 217 miles (350 kilometers) north of Baghdad following an al Qaeda breakaway group's takeover of their home city. An estimated half a million fled Iraq's second-largest city. (associated press)
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A U.S. Air Force F-15 Eagle escorts a Russian TU-95 Bear H strategic bomber, taking part in Russian military exercises, near Iceland on June 25, 1999. The appearance of Russian bombers over the Atlantic Ocean for the first time in years coincides with new efforts by Moscow to stop its once enormous military from disintegrating. This photo was released by the Department of Defense Thursday July 1, 1999 in Washington. (AP Photo/DOD Photo)
