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FILE - In this July 26, 2017, file photo, protestors attend a rally in New York City, to protest President Donald Trump's announcement of a ban on transgender troops serving anywhere in the U.S. military. Trump’s tweets declaring transgender individuals unwelcome in his military has plunged the Pentagon into a legal and moral quagmire, seeing off a flurry of meetings to devise a new policy that could lead to hundreds of service members being discharged. (AP Photo/Frank Franklin II, File)
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This Thursday, Aug 3, 2017 photo released by the government-controlled Syrian Central Military Media, shows an al-Qaida-linked militant standing in a bus, after being evacuated from the town of Arsal, near the Syrian border, in northeast Lebanon. A large convoy from Lebanon carrying thousands of refugees and al-Qaida-linked militants began arriving at a transfer point in the western Syrian Hama province to complete their journey to the rebel-held Idlib province in northwest Syria. (Syrian Central Military Media via AP)
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This Thursday, Aug. 3, 2017 photo released by the government-controlled Syrian Central Military Media, shows a wounded al-Qaida-linked militant lying in an ambulance, after being evacuated from the town of Arsal, near the Syrian border, in northeast Lebanon. A large convoy from Lebanon carrying thousands of refugees and al-Qaida-linked militants began arriving at a transfer point in the western Syrian Hama province to complete their journey to the rebel-held Idlib province in northwest Syria. (Syrian Central Military Media, via AP)
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This Thursday, Aug. 3, 2017 photo released by the government-controlled Syrian Central Military Media, shows al-Qaida-linked militants seated in a bus with their families, after being evacuated from the town of Arsal, near the Syrian border, in northeast Lebanon. A large convoy from Lebanon carrying thousands of refugees and al-Qaida-linked militants began arriving at a transfer point in the western Syrian Hama province to complete their journey to the rebel-held Idlib province in northwest Syria. (Syrian Central Military Media via AP)
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Workers install a giant lantern with the logo of ASEAN, Association of Southeast Asian Nations, in preparation for the Aug.2-8, 2017 50th ASEAN Foreign Ministers' Meeting and its dialogue partners at the Thursday, Aug. 3, 2017, in Manila, Philippines. Washington is seeking talks on how North Korea can be suspended from Asia's biggest security forum as part of a broader effort to isolate Pyongyang diplomatically and force it to end its missile tests and abandon its nuclear weapons program, U.S. and Philippine officials said. (AP Photo/Bullit Marquez)
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A North Korean flag, center, flies with other flags of ASEAN, Association of Southeast Asian Nations, countries and its dialogue partners outside the Philippine International Convention Center, the venue for the Aug.2-8, 2017 50th ASEAN Foreign Ministers' Meeting, as a passenger plane flies above Thursday, Aug. 3, 2017, in Manila, Philippines. Washington is seeking talks on how North Korea can be suspended from Asia's biggest security forum as part of a broader effort to isolate Pyongyang diplomatically and force it to end its missile tests and abandon its nuclear weapons program, U.S. and Philippine officials said. (AP Photo/Bullit Marquez)
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A North Korean flag flies with other flags of the ASEAN countries and its dialogue partners outside the Philippine International Convention Center, the venue for the Aug. 2-8, 2017 50th ASEAN Foreign Ministers' Meeting, as a passenger plane flies above Thursday, Aug. 3, 2017 in Manila, Philippines. (AP Photo/Bullit Marquez)
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FILE - This file photo distributed by the North Korean government shows what was said to be the launch of a Hwasong-14 intercontinental ballistic missile, ICBM, in North Korea's northwest, Tuesday, July 4, 2017. Independent journalists were not given access to cover the event depicted in this photo. North Korea’s flurry of missile launches - 20 of them just in the past year - are a new and alarming fact of life for Japan and its other neighbors. (Korean Central News Agency/Korea News Service via AP, File)
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FILE - This file image made from video of a news bulletin aired by North Korea's KRT on July 4, 2017, shows what was said to be North Korea leader Kim Jung Un, center, watching the launch of a Hwasong-14 intercontinental ballistic missile, ICBM, in North Korea's northwest. Independent journalists were not given access to cover the event depicted in this photo. North Korea’s flurry of missile launches - 20 of them just in the past year - are a new and alarming fact of life for Japan and its other neighbors. (KRT via AP Video, File)
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In this Tuesday, Aug. 1, 2017, photo, Eiko Miyauchi speaks to The Associated Press as she passes by Verny Park, located across from the Yokosuka U.S. Naval Base in Yokosuka, south of Tokyo. Residents of Yokosuka city, home to the major U.S. Naval Base, share their thoughts on North Korea and its recent intercontinental ballistic missile launches. Miyauchi, 83, endured U.S. firebombings during World War II. As a child, she was evacuated from the coast and took shelter in an underground bunker as bombs rained down. “I lived through the war, and I can’t imagine anything being as scary as that one,” she said. (AP Photo/Sherry Zheng)
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In this Tuesday, Aug. 1, 2017, photo, Misaki Honna, carrying her 10-month-old daughter, speaks to The Associated Press near Yokosuka-chuo Station in Yokosuka, south of Tokyo. Residents of Yokosuka city, home to a major U.S. Naval Base near Tokyo, share their thoughts on North Korea and its recent intercontinental ballistic missile launches. Honna, 21, said suggestions that Yokosuka might be targeted because of the U.S. and Japanese military presence were troubling. “But even if we flee, we wouldn’t know where to go. If a missile strikes, there’s almost nothing you can do about it,” she said. (AP Photo/Sherry Zheng)
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In this Tuesday, Aug. 1, 2017, photo, members of an anti-nuclear pacifist citizens' group protest outside Yokosuka-chuo Station in Yokosuka, south of Tokyo. Residents of Yokosuka city, home to a major U.S. Naval Base near Tokyo, share their thoughts on North Korea and its recent intercontinental ballistic missile launches. (AP Photo/Sherry Zheng)
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In this Tuesday, Aug. 1, 2017, photo, Akira Fukatsu, a 65-year-old retiree, sits in front of a replica cannon in Verny Park in Yokosuka, south of Tokyo. Residents of Yokosuka city, home to a major U.S. Naval Base, share their thoughts on North Korea and its recent intercontinental ballistic missile launches. "We have no idea when and where (a missile) would strike. Honestly, I don’t think there is any way to prepare for it,” Fukatsu said on a bench in a park overlooking the Navy base. “We’re simply unlucky if one strikes here.” (AP Photo/Sherry Zheng)
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Defense Secretary Jim Mattis, left, leaves after a closed-door briefing with the Senate Foreign Relations Committee regarding the administration's perspective on the authorizations for the use of military force on Wednesday, Aug. 2, 2017, on Capitol Hill in Washington. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)
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In this July 26, 2017 file photo, black smoke rises from a coalition airstrike which attacked an Islamic State militant position, on the front line on the eastern side of Raqqa, Syria. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla, File)
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Secretary of State Rex Tillerson, right, and Defense Secretary of Defense Jim Mattis, arrive on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, Aug. 2, 2017, to brief the Senate Foreign Relations Committee behind closed-doors regarding the administration's perspective on the authorizations for the use of military force. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)
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Mississippi quarterback Shea Patterson (20) answers a reporter's question during Mississippi's media day, Wednesday, Aug. 2, 2017, in Oxford, Miss. Mississippi opens its preseason camp after a tumultuous offseason highlighted by the stunning resignation of coach Hugh Freeze last month. The Rebels still have some talent remaining on the roster, but it remains to be seen if the chaos and distractions have taken their toll. (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis)
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Mississippi's offensive coordinator Phil Longo, left, laughs at a comment from quarterback Shea Patterson (20) during media day activities, Wednesday, Aug. 2, 2017, in Oxford, Miss. Mississippi opens its preseason camp after a tumultuous offseason highlighted by the stunning resignation of coach Hugh Freeze last month. The Rebels still have some talent remaining on the roster, but it remains to be seen if the chaos and distractions have taken their toll. (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis)
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In this image taken with a slow shutter speed and provided by Vandenberg Air Force Base, an unarmed Minuteman 3 missile launches from Vandenberg Air Force Base, Calif., Wednesday, Aug. 2, 2107. The U.S. Air Force has successfully launched the unarmed intercontinental ballistic missile, the fourth such test this year. (Senior Airman Ian Dudley/Vandenberg Air Force Base via AP)
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Protesters shout slogans during a demonstration in western Herat province of Afghanistan, Wednesday, Aug. 2, 2017. Thousands of angry residents carried the bodies of 31 people who died in a horrific suicide attack on a Shiite Mosque in western Herat. (AP Photo/Hamed Sarfarazi)
