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Topic: casualties

United States Marines from Bravo Company of the 1st Battalion of the 2nd Marines watch the explosion after calling in an airstrike during a gunbattle as part of an operation to clear the area of insurgents near Musa Qaleh, in northern Helmand Province, southern Afghanistan (AP Photo/Kevin Frayer)

Will 2020 bring an end to endless war?

Bob Hennelly
(Getty/mstahlphoto)

Gold Star families hit with higher taxes

Igor Derysh
(AP/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

Trump's Benghazi gets worse

Sophia Tesfaye
An F/A-18 Hornet fighter jet sits onboard the U.S. Navy's USS George Washington aircraft carrier. (Reuters)

A wide world of winless wars

Nick Turse - TomDispatch.com
(Apple/Salon)

Gary Younge - TomDispatch.com
(screenshot/"Last Week Tonight")

John Oliver rips drone policy

Sarah Gray
(<a href='http://www.shutterstock.com/gallery-8057p1.html'>David Acosta Allely</a> via <a href='http://www.shutterstock.com/'>Shutterstock</a>)

Joanna Rothkopf
Displaced Palestinian children collect water, at a different U.N. school in Jebaliya refugee camp, northern Gaza Strip, Wednesday, July 30, 2014. Some 3,300 Gazans seeking shelter from the fighting had been crowded into the U.N. school in Jebaliya refugee camp when it was hit by a series of Israeli artillery shells on Wednesday. (AP Photo/Lefteris Pitarakis)

TAMER ZIARA, Ibrahim Barzak
(AP/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

Jenny Kutner