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An Iraqi prisoner of war comforts his 4-year-old son at a regroupment center for POWs of the 101st Airborne Division near An Najaf, March 31, 2003. The man was seized in An Najaf with his son, and the U.S. military did not want to separate them.

 

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Her mother, no first name available, comforts 18-year-old Fatimah Krim at a hospital in Baghdad, Iraq, Wednesday Jan. 17, 2007. Twin car bombs tore through a leading Baghdad university as students left classes in the deadliest attack in Iraq in nearly two months killing at least 65 students.

 

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Mary McHugh mourns her slain fiancee Sgt. James Regan at "Section 60" of the Arlington National Cemetery May 27, 2007

 

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Haidar Talib embraces his four-year-old son Mustafa as he was released from U.S. military custody in Baghdad, Iraq, Sunday, Sept. 27, 2009. He was among 37 members of a militant group called Asaib Ahl al-Haq, or League of the Righteous, who were released Sunday. The group was allegedly involved in kidnapping of five British contractors in Baghdad in 2007.

 

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Sharon Olivieri says goodbye to her husband U.S. Army PFC Michael Olivieri, of Homer Glen, Illinois following a service at Abraham Lincoln National Cemetery on June 16, 2011 in Elwood, Illinois. Olivieri, who was assigned to 1st Battalion, 7th Field Artillery Regiment, 2nd Heavy Brigade Combat Team, 1st Infantry Division was among five soldiers who were killed June 6 in Baghdad, Iraq when militants attacked their base. Killed alongside Olivieri were SPC Emilio Campo Jr., SPC Michael Cook Jr., SPC Christopher Fishbeck and SPC Robert Hartwick

 

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An Iraqi woman holds onto a truck while waiting for food supplies to be distributed by Iraqi soldiers among the residents of the Shiite enclave of Sadr city in Baghdad, Iraq, Thursday, May 8, 2008

 

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Detainees pray at a U.S. military detention facility Camp Bucca, Iraq, Monday, March 16, 2009. The United States aimed to shut down its largest detention center, Camp Bucca, by 2010. More than 9,600 detainees who were captured as national security threats over the last four years were still being held there; at its peak, the prison located 340 miles southeast of Baghdad held 26,000 detainees

 

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Soldiers from the 3rd Brigade of the U.S. 101st Airborne Division rest in fox holes by their convoy staging area in the Kuwaiti desert Friday, March 21, 2003

 

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A British paratrooper, left, talks with an Iraqi girl while holding his position near the main street in Basra as coalition forces took control of much of Iraq's second city

 

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A young Iraqi girl cries as a British Challenger tank moves in on the Baath party office in Basra April 8, 2003

 

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Family members mourn the death of three male relatives, in Baghdad, Iraq Thursday, April 10, 2003. The three - a father, his teenage son, and another male relative - were shot and killed by U.S. Marines Wednesday night, April 9, after the car they were driving allegedly did not stop while passing a building occupied by U.S. Marines. The victims' relatives were waiting for their return, and did not know about the incident until relatives towed the car, containing the three bodies, to the family's home on Thursday.

 

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Iraqi National Museum Deputy Director Mushin Hasan holds his head in his hands as he sits on destroyed artifacts April 13, 2003 in Bagdhad, Iraq. The museum was severely looted in the preceding days

 

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An Iraqi child jumps over a line of remains in a school where bodies had been brought from a mass grave discovered in the desert in the outskirts of Al Musayyib, 50 km south of Baghdad, May 27, 2003 in Iraq. People had been searching for days for identity cards or other clues among the skeletons to try to find the remains of family members, including children, from the grave that locals say contained the remains of hundreds of Shi'ite Muslims executed by Saddam Hussein's regime after their uprising following the 1991 Gulf War.

 

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American soldiers in the 4th Infantry Division stand over the opening of the "spider hole" where Saddam Hussein was captured December 15, 2003 in Ad Dawr, Iraq. Iraq's notorious dictator was captured in a raid at the compound on December 13, 2003

 

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12-year-old Afghan girl Tarana Akbari (C) wearing a bright green robe as she stands among bodies and injured people shortly after a bomb exploded outside a riverside shrine in Kabul during the celebrations of the Shiite holy day of Ashura.

 

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Billy Stinson (L) comforts his daughter Erin Stinson as they sit on the steps where their cottage once stood before it was destroyed by Hurricane Irene August 28, 2011 in Nags Head, North Carolina. The cottage, built in 1903, was one of the first vacation cottages built on Roanoke Soundin Nags Head. Stinson has owned the home, which is listed in the National Register of Historic Places, since 1963. "We were pretending, just for a moment, that the cottage was still behind us and we were just sitting there watching the sunset," said Erin afterward.

 

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The Barcelona team throws coach Pep Guardiola in the air after winning the Champions League final soccer match against Manchester United at Wembley Stadium, London, Saturday, May 28, 2011

 

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A Libyan doctor reacts as other medical staff members attempt to save the life of Jinan Hussein Jweil, 5, who suffered a severe head wound, at a rebel-held hospital in Misrata, Libya, April 17, 2011. She later died of her wounds.

 

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Ahmed Farhan, 30, who was killed by security forces, is washed before his burial in the village of Sitra, Bahrain, March 18, 2011. The family of Farhan had been trying to bring him home to Sitra, an activist Shiite village, and bury him there, but permission had been withheld until the last minute

 

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Neena Sasaki, 5, carries some of the family belongings from her home that was destroyed after the devastating earthquake and tsunami on March 15, 2011 in Rikuzentakata, Miyagi province, Japan. Thousands were killed after the 8.9 earthquake struck the northeast coast of Japan 4 days ago. The country is struggled to contain a potential nuclear meltdown after the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant was seriously damaged from the earthquake.