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  • GAZA CITY, GAZA STRIP. Residents react to the screeching sound of what is believed to be a 2,000 pound GBU-10 Paveway II laser-guided bomb captured moments before it hits an apartment building on al-Jalla St. in Gaza City in the Gaza Strip on July 31, 2014. The family that owned the destroyed building had been phoned by the Israel Defense Forces and told to evacuate the house because it was going to be attacked. After the building was evacuated the neighborhood watched as the building was struck with three bombs, which destroyed the targeted building but left the surrounding structures standing.
  • GAZA CITY, GAZA STRIP. Explosions caused by Israeli airstrikes erupt in the Jabal al-Rayyes neighborhood of Gaza City in the Gaza Strip on July 29, 2014. Israel said they were targeting 32 tunnels dug to allow Hamas militants to go under the border fence and infiltrate Israel.
  • GAZA CITY, GAZA STRIP. A family mourns as the body of Muhammed Abu Shagfa, 7, is taken for burial after a rocket attack on Eid al-Fitr, the holiday marking the Muslim holy month of Ramadan, that killed at least 10 people and wounded 46 in the al Shati refugee camp on Monday, July 28, 2014. According to the United Nations 7 in 10 Palestinians killed in the Gaza war were civilians. Many of those civilians were killed when Hamas rockets fell short of Israel, landing in dense Gaza neighborhoods. Others were killed when Israeli fire hit U.N. schools and Palestinian homes.
  • HABBANIYAH, IRAQ. An Iraqi Army helicopter crew travels from Baghdad to Ramadi, Iraq in Anbar province arriving at Al Taqaddum Air Base on Tuesday, April 29, 2014. Iraq held a parliamentary election in spite of a worsening Sunni insurgency in Anbar province. Iraqi politicians failed to address the demands of the Sunni tribes who rose up again the Iraq military forces.
  • CAIRO, EGYPT. A boy hides behind a doorway after protestors fled advancing security forces who fired tear gas against protestors near the Interior Ministry in Cairo, Egypt on Saturday February 4, 2012. Protestors and police continued street clashes in the Egyptian capital following a deadly soccer riot that left 74 people dead and angered Egyptians over the lack of security.
  • AKORA KHATTAK, PAKISTAN. Students memorize the Koran at the Darul Uloom Haqqania madrassa in Akora Khattak, Pakistan on Monday April 1, 2013. Around 3000 students study a type of ultra-orthodox interpretation of Islam known as Deobandi. Taliban leader Mullah Omar is a graduate of the school, which is regarded as a most prestigious of conservative Islamic schools.
  • TRIPOLI, LYBIA. Libyans celebrate with fireworks and flags as they are addressed by Ali Tarhouni, Libyan National Transitional Council minister of oil and finance, in Martyrs Square from a stage in front of hundreds of celebrating Libyans on Monday, August 8, 2011.
  • KARACHI, PAKISTAN. A government team administers Polio immunization drops to children between the ages of 0 to 5 at the Karachi train station in Karachi, Pakistan on Thursday January 30, 2014. The three-day campaign was cut short after an immunization team was attacked and two workers killed the following day. Pakistan remains one of the most difficult polio eradication environments with the death toll among anti-polio workers reaching 65 since the first targeted attack in December of 2012.
  • PESHAWAR, PAKISTAN. Pakistan Army soldiers inspect the damage done to the Army Public School and Degree College in Peshawar, Pakistan on Wednesday, December 17, 2014 where Taliban gunmen killed 150 people, many of them children, the day before. Empty bullet casings, pools of blood and personal belongings littered the floors.
  • WESTWOOD, CALIFORNIA. Staff Sergeant Darrell Griffin is laid to rest with full military honors at the Los Angeles National Cemetery in Westwood, California on Friday, 13 2007. Griffin earned a Bronze Star with Valor for his service before he was killed in Iraq by a sniper during an operation in Sadr City.
  • PESHAWAR, PAKISTAN. After taking a hit of heroin an addict wipes his face in a back alley on the streets of Peshawar, Pakistan on Sunday March 2, 2008. Record poppy crops in Afghanistan have pushed a surge in heroin addicts across the border in Pakistan. The use of intravenous injection of the drug is helping to spread HIV/AIDS in areas where there is little or no help for those with the disease.
  • GIZA, EGYPT. Egyptian trinket sellers wait for tourists at the pyramids of Giza, in Cairo, Egypt on Sunday March 11, 2012. Egypt saw an 18 percent drop in tourist nights spent in the country in 2011 and the numbers have not improved in 2012 according to the United Nations World Tourism Organization, the premier tourism organization which participated in the ITB Berlin travel fare last week.
  • CAIRO, EGYPT. Coptic Christian Egyptians mourn more than a dozen killed during clashes with the Egyptian army late Sunday as the bodies are collected in coffins at the Coptic Hospital in Cairo, Egypt. The victims were killed during clashes at a protest by Coptic Christians demanding better protection and accountability for several church burnings this year.
  • KANDAHAR, AFGHANISTAN. {quote}Kill Team{quote} leader Staff Sgt. Calvin Gibbs walks through a poppy field during a patrol to investigate one of the killings of an Afgha civilian he was connected to.
  • KARACHI, PAKISTAN. People rush home from work before the sun sets during Ramadan in front of a mosque run by the Ahle Sunnat Wal Jamaat party in the middle-class Nagin Chowrangi neighborhood in Karachi, Pakistan on Monday, July 7, 2014. The Ahle Sunnat Wal Jamaat was once called Sipah-e-Sahaba, a banned group in Pakistan.
  • ISLAMABAD, PAKISTAN. Imam Hafiz Mohammed Khalid Chishti is blindfolded and shackled as he is led to court to receive formal charges for falsely accusing a young Christian girl of burning pages of the Quran at the Islamabad District Court in Islamabad, Pakistan on Sunday September 2, 2012. The Imam was arrested after his deputy made a statement saying he saw the Imam add pages to the burning ashes in order to accuse the girl of blasphemy and expel the Christian family from the neighborhood. The case involves Rimsha Masih who was arrested on August 16, 2012 on charges of blasphemy after being accused of burning pages of the Quran by a crowd of her Muslim neighbors. The girl, who is believed to be between the ages of 11 to 14, and her family were roughed-up by the crowed before being taken into custody by the police.
  • LAHORE, PAKSITAN. Former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif, right, and his brother Shahbaz Sharif, left, stand on the top of a vehicle as they wave to hundreds of supporters after arriving at the Lahore Airport from Saudi Arabia on Sunday, November 25, 2007 in Lahore, Pakistan. President Pervez Musharrif sent Sharif and his brother into exile some eight years ago. He has arrived in Pakistan to head one of the country's leading opposition parties.
  • LAHORE, PAKISTAN. People visit the Lahore Fort in the old city of Lahore, Pakistan during the second day of Muharram which is the second day of the Islamic calendar, on Saturday, January, 12, 2008. The Pakistani government is taking extra security measures for Muharram, which will include a Shiia celebration of Ashurah when sectarian violence is expected.
  • PESHAWAR, PAKISTAN. A man takes time out for tea as he sits along a busy street in the old town in Peshawar, Pakistan on Monday March 3, 2008. In the recent elections the Awami National Party (ANP), made up of largely Pashtun nationalists, has gained support over religious based political leadership. The vote signals a move by residents away from the oppressive restrictions of fundamentalist Islamic leadership in the region.
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