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** FILE ** Al Qaeda gunmen gather in the streets of Fallujah, Iraq, Jan. 2014. (Associated Press)
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FILE -- This Feb. 2, 2014, file photo shows Iraqi Security forces preparing to attack al-Qaida positions in Ramadi, 70 miles (115 kilometers) west of Baghdad, Iraq. Militants, many from the al-Qaida-breakaway group Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant, overran Fallujah and parts of Anbar’s capital, Ramadi, at the beginning of 2014, and since then government forces, backed by Sunni tribal fighters opposed to al-Qaida, have battled the militants with little success. According to the Obama administration’s most recent terrorism report, released by the State Department in late April, al-Qaida's core leadership has been degraded, limiting its ability to launch attacks and lead its followers. This has resulted in more autonomous and more aggressive affiliates, notably in Yemen, Syria, Iraq, northwest Africa and Somalia, according to the report, which recorded a 43 percent increase in terrorist attacks worldwide from 2012 to 2013. (AP Photo, File)
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In this May 30, 2014 photo, Army veteran Patrick Browne, who served in Fallujah, Iraq in 2003, stands for a portrait in downtown Denver. Browne is unhappy with both the medical care and the customer service he has received from the Denver VA. (AP Photo/Brennan Linsley)
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Travis Fugate, a member of the Kentucky National Guard who was blinded by an IED attack in Iraq, wipes his eyes as he testifies on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, My 29, 2014, before the House Veterans Affairs subcommittee on Oversight & Investigations as the panel examines inadequacies in the Veterans Administration's treatment of visually-impaired veterans. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)
