From Syria in Ruins, one of 38 photos. A member of the Free Syrian Army sits on a sofa in the middle of a debris-strewn street in Deir al-Zor, Syria, on April 2, 2013. (Reuters/Khalil Ashawi)
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April 2, 2013
From Afghanistan: March 2013, one of 41 photos. Here, a child watches Afghan National Security Forces and coalition forces escort a district governor in Helmand province, Afghanistan, on March 17, 2013. (USMC/Sgt. Pete Thibodeau)
March 27, 2013
From North Korea Puts Its War Machine on Display, one of 33 photos. Here, North Korean leader Kim Jong Un (center) looks at the latest combat and technical equipment, made by unit 1501 of the Korean People’s Army, during his visit to the unit, on March 24, 2013. (Reuters/KCNA)
March 20, 2013
From Iraq War’s 10th Anniversary: After the War, one of 42 photos. This Wednesday, March 13, 2013 photo shows a view of Firdos Square at the site of an Associated Press photograph taken by Jerome Delay as the statue of Saddam Hussein was pulled down by U.S. forces and Iraqis on April 9, 2003. Ten years ago on live television, U.S. Marines memorably hauled down a Soviet-style statue of Saddam, symbolically ending his rule. Today, that pedestal in central Baghdad stands empty. Bent iron beams sprout from the top, and posters of anti-American Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr in military fatigues are pasted on the sides. (AP Photo/Maya Alleruzzo)
March 19, 2013
From Iraq War’s 10th Anniversary: Occupation and Insurgency, one of 50 photos. Here, U.S. Army Pvt. Joe Armstrong of Alpha Company, 1st Battalion, 5th Cavalry Regiment, 2nd Brigade, 1st Cavalry Division searches the rooftop of a house during an operation in the Amariyah neighborhood of west Baghdad, Iraq, on Monday, August 13, 2007. (AP Photo/Petr David Josek)
March 18, 2013
From Iraq War’s 10th Anniversary: The Invasion, one of 50 photos. Smoke covers Saddam Hussein’s presidential palace compound during a massive US-led air raid on Baghdad, Iraq on March 21, 2003. Allied forces unleashed a devastating blitz on Baghdad, triggering giant fireballs and deafening explosions and sending huge mushroom clouds above the city center. Missiles slammed into the main palace complex of President Saddam Hussein on the bank of the Tigris River, and key government buildings. (Ramzi Haidar/AFP/Getty Images)
February 25, 2013
From Mali Conflict Enters New Phase, one of 37 photos. Malian soldiers fight while clashes erupted in the city of Gao on February 21, 2013 and an apparent car bomb struck near a camp housing French troops as Malian and foreign forces struggled to secure Mali’s volatile north against Islamist rebels. (Frederic Lafargue/AFP/Getty Images)
February 20, 2013
From DIY Weapons of the Syrian Rebels, one of 38 photos. Syrian rebels prepare to launch a bomb using a homemade slingshot in the northern city of Aleppo, on October 16, 2012. Lightly-armed Syrian rebels who face the warplanes, artillery and tanks of loyalists have turned to making their own weapons, even rigging a video game controller to fire mortar rounds. (Tauseef Mustafa/AFP/Getty Images)
February 4, 2013
From Afghanistan: January 2013, one of 39 photos. Here, an Afghan man stands outside a compound near the town of Hutal in Maywand District, Kandahar Province, Afghanistan, January 20, 2013. (Reuters/Andrew Burton)
January 31, 2013
From Intense Battle Scenes From Damascus, one of 21 photos. Here, Free Syrian Army fighters run for cover as a tank shell explodes on a wall in Damascus, on January 30, 2013. (Reuters/Goran Tomasevic)
January 25, 2013
From The Conflict in Mali, one of 36 photos. A soldier of the French foreign legion wearing a skeleton mask stands next to an armored vehicle in a street in Niono, Mali, on January 20, 2013. French Defence Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian said today that the goal of France’s military action in Mali was to retake control of the entire country from Islamist militants who have seized the north. “The goal is the total reconquest of Mali. We will not leave any pockets” of resistance, Le Drian said on French television. (Issouf Sanogo/AFP/Getty Images)
December 3, 2012
From Afghanistan: November 2012, one of 37 photos. Traffic moves past the Abdul Rahman Khan Great Mosque, on November 18, 2012 in Kabul, Afghanistan. (Daniel Berehulak/Getty Images)
November 27, 2012
From Rebel Attacks in Eastern Congo, one of 37 photos. The body of a dead Congolese army soldier lies in the road between Goma and Kibati, in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo, on November 18, 2012. Government soldiers were fleeing the eastern DR Congo city of Goma in large numbers today as rebels advanced to the gates of the regional capital, a UN source said. Rebels took control of Goma two days later. (Phil Moore/AFP/Getty Images)
November 19, 2012
From Israel Steps Up Attacks, Gaza Returns Fire, one of 39 photos. Smoke rises after an Israeli air strike in Gaza City, on November 18, 2012. The Israeli military widened its range of targets in the Gaza Strip on Sunday to include the media operations of the Palestinian territory’s Hamas rulers, sending its aircraft to attack two buildings used by both Hamas and foreign media outlets. (AP Photo/Bernat Armangue)
November 16, 2012
From Rockets Over Israel and Gaza, one of 39 photos. Smoke rises after Israeli air strikes in the northern Gaza Strip, on November 14, 2012. Israel launched a major offensive against Palestinian militants in Gaza on Wednesday, killing the military commander of Hamas in an air strike and threatening an invasion of the enclave that the Islamist group vowed would “open the gates of hell”. (Reuters/Darren Whiteside)
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