War_Conflict

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French President Emmanuel Macron, center left, visits soldiers of Operation Barkhane, France's largest overseas military operation, in Gao, Northern Mali, Friday, May 19, 2017. On his first official trip outside Europe, new French President Emmanuel Macron is highlighting his determination to crush extremism with a visit to French-led military forces combating jihadist groups in West Africa. (Christophe Petit Tesson, Pool via AP)

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French President Emmanuel Macron, visits soldiers of Operation Barkhane, France's largest overseas military operation, in Gao, Northern Mali, Friday, May 19, 2017. On his first official trip outside Europe, new French President Emmanuel Macron is highlighting his determination to crush extremism with a visit to French-led military forces combating jihadist groups in West Africa. (Christophe Petit Tesson, Pool via AP)

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French President Emmanuel Macron, center, and Mali's President Ibrahim Boubacar Keita, center right, visit soldiers of Operation Barkhane, France's largest overseas military operation, in Gao, Northern Mali, Friday, May 19, 2017. On his first official trip outside Europe, new French President Emmanuel Macron is highlighting his determination to crush extremism with a visit to French-led military forces combating jihadist groups in West Africa. (Christophe Petit Tesson, Pool via AP)

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French President Emmanuel Macron, left, has a lunch break with soldiers of Operation Barkhane, France's largest overseas military operation, in Gao, northern Mali, Friday, May 19, 2017. On his first official trip outside Europe, new French President Emmanuel Macron is highlighting his determination to crush extremism with a visit to French-led military forces combating jihadist groups in West Africa. (Christophe Petit Tesson, Pool via AP)

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French President Emmanuel Macron, left, and Mali's President Ibrahim Boubacar Keita hold a press conference as they meet French soldiers of Operation Barkhane, France's largest overseas military operation, in Gao, Northern Mali, Friday, May 19, 2017. On his first official trip outside Europe, new French President Emmanuel Macron is highlighting his determination to crush extremism with a visit to French-led military forces combating jihadist groups in West Africa. (Christophe Petit Tesson, Pool via AP)

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French President Emmanuel Macron, visits soldiers of Operation Barkhane, France's largest overseas military operation, in Gao, Northern Mali, Friday, May 19, 2017. On his first official trip outside Europe, new French President Emmanuel Macron is highlighting his determination to crush extremism with a visit to French-led military forces combating jihadist groups in West Africa. (Christophe Petit Tesson, Pool via AP)

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French President Emmanuel Macron, center, and Mali's President Ibrahim Boubacar Keita, center right, visit soldiers of Operation Barkhane, France's largest overseas military operation, in Gao, Northern Mali, Friday, May 19, 2017. On his first official trip outside Europe, new French President Emmanuel Macron is highlighting his determination to crush extremism with a visit to French-led military forces combating jihadist groups in West Africa. (Christophe Petit Tesson, Pool via AP)

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French President Emmanuel Macron, visits soldiers of Operation Barkhane, France's largest overseas military operation, in Gao, Northern Mali, Friday, May 19, 2017. On his first official trip outside Europe, new French President Emmanuel Macron is highlighting his determination to crush extremism with a visit to French-led military forces combating jihadist groups in West Africa. (Christophe Petit Tesson, Pool via AP)

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French President Emmanuel Macron, center, and Mali's President Ibrahim Boubacar Keita, review troops as they visit soldiers of Operation Barkhane, France's largest overseas military operation, in Gao, Northern Mali, Friday, May 19, 2017. On his first official trip outside Europe, new French President Emmanuel Macron is highlighting his determination to crush extremism with a visit to French-led military forces combating jihadist groups in West Africa. (Christophe Petit Tesson, Pool via AP)

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French President Emmanuel Macron, greets authorities as he visits soldiers of Operation Barkhane, France's largest overseas military operation, in Gao, Northern Mali, Friday, May 19, 2017. On his first official trip outside Europe, new French President Emmanuel Macron is highlighting his determination to crush extremism with a visit to French-led military forces combating jihadist groups in West Africa. (Christophe Petit Tesson, Pool via AP)

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French President Emmanuel Macron, center right, and Mali's President Ibrahim Boubacar Keita, right, review troops as they visit soldiers of Operation Barkhane, France's largest overseas military operation, in Gao, Northern Mali, Friday, May 19, 2017. On his first official trip outside Europe, new French President Emmanuel Macron is highlighting his determination to crush extremism with a visit to French-led military forces combating jihadist groups in West Africa. (Christophe Petit Tesson, Pool via AP)

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FILE-- In this photo taken Sunday Feb. 10, 2013, French soldiers secure the area where a suicide bomber exploded at the entrance of Gao, northern Mali. France's new president Emmanuel Macron has chosen for his first official visit outside Europe the West African nation of Mali, a country where multiple extremist groups pose a growing danger to the region.(AP Photo/Jerome Delay, File)

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In this May 15, 2017, photo, Iraqi civilians walk through rubble as they flee fighting between Iraqi special forces and Islamic State militants, in western Mosul, Iraq. The United States is looking ahead toward a decisive battleground in its bid to destroy the Islamic State group, even as U.S.-backed local forces must still finish the fight for the extremists’ two main strongholds in Iraq and Syria. (AP Photo/Maya Alleruzzo, File)

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Search and rescue crews join LA County Sheriff and South Pasadena Police departments on Thursday, May 18, 2017, at Arroyo Park and Arroyo Seco wash in South Pasadena, Calif., as they search for 5-year-old Aramazd Andressian, Jr., who has been missing since April 22. (Sarah Reingewirtz /Los Angeles Daily News via AP)

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Smoke from an airstrike rises in the background as a man flees with a toddler during fighting between Iraqi special forces and Islamic State militants, in the al-Rifai neighborhood of western Mosul, Iraq, Wednesday, May 17, 2017. (AP Photo/Maya Alleruzzo)

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A woman climbs off of a truck after a perilous journey to flee heavy fighting in her neighborhood between Iraqi forces and Islamic State militants, at a processing center for the displaced, in west Mosul, Iraq, Thursday, May 18, 2017.(AP Photo/Maya Alleruzzo)

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A child sleeps on his mother's shoulder after a perilous journey on foot to flee heavy fighting in their neighborhood between Iraqi forces and Islamic State militants, at a processing center in west Mosul, Iraq, Thursday, May 18, 2017. (AP Photo/Maya Alleruzzo)