The Washington National Guard has criticised two servicewomen for being photographed in military uniform while breast-feeding their babies.

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Iraqi officials said al Qaeda in Iraq, which shares a decade-old relationship with Syrian jihadists, has been empowered by the Syrian war and has been feeding off the military strength of al Nusra.

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Most rice merchants are run by military men with no interest in feeding minorities who might rise up against them.

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More than 100 of the prisoners are involved in the hunger strike, and the military earlier this month was force-feeding 32 of them to keep them from starving.

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Presumably, the rift was civil-military, with the former more interested in feeding its people than the latter.

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The U.S. military broke the protest by strapping detainees down and force-feeding them a liquid nutrient mix to prevent them from starving themselves to death.

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So not only are Mr Kony's former foes now feeding him, but reported airdrops of supplies suggest that his allies in military intelligence in Khartoum want to keep him going too.

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Time and time again, the justification for the involuntary feeding process, as they described it, was that they were following the orders of a higher military authority.

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