War_Conflict

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Syrian rebel fighters take cover Oct. 26, 2012, as a Syrian army sniper aims over a destroyed mosque in Tarik Al-Bab, southeast of Aleppo, Syria. (Associated Press) ** FILE **

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**FILE** Troops from the Central African Republic stand guard April 29, 2012, at a building in Obo, Central African Republic, used for joint meetings between them and U.S. Army special forces, where U.S. special forces have paired up with local troops and Ugandan soldiers to seek out Joseph Kony's Lord's Resistance Army (LRA). (Associated Press)

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** FILE ** A Libyan man checks out the interior of the U.S. Consulate in Benghazi, Libya, after the attack. (Associated Press)

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An exiled Tibetan Buddhist in Dharmsala, India, protests Chinese rule. Since March 2011, dozens of ethnic Tibetans have set themselves on fire in ethnically Tibetan areas to protest China’s perceived repression.

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Daniel Day-Lewis, as the 16th president in “Lincoln,” brings to life the man and his struggles as he sought to end the Civil War and reunify the country. Steven Spielberg directs the film, rated PG-13. (Dreamworks and Twentieth Century Fox via Associated Press)

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People injured in an explosion lie at a local hospital in Karachi, Pakistan, on Nov. 8, 2012. A suicide bomber smashed a truck packed with explosives into housing for a paramilitary force protecting Pakistan’s largest city, killing at least one person, officials said. (Associated Press)

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An Afghan policeman stands guard at the scene of a suicide attack in Kandahar, south of Kabul, Afghanistan, Thursday, Nov. 8, 2012. Ahmad Jawed Faisal, a provincial governor spokesman, says a suicide bomber killed several policemen and wounded others in the southern city of Kandahar on Thursday. (AP Photo/Allauddin Khan)

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** FILE ** A protester holding a Greek flag looks at the Greek Parliament in Athens on Tuesday, Nov. 6, 2012. Greece's unions are holding their third general strike in six weeks to press dissenters in the country's troubled coalition government not to back a major new austerity program that will doom Greeks to further hardship in a sixth year of recession. (AP Photo/Nikolas Giakoumidis)

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Britain's Prime Minister David Cameron, center, walks with Jordanian Foreign Minister Nasser Judeh, second left, and United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) representative to Jordan Andrew Harper, right, during his visit to Zaatari refugee camp in Mafraq, Jordan, Wednesday, Nov. 7, 2012. British Prime Minister David Cameron, visiting a camp for Syrian refugees in Jordan, said the U.S., Britain and other allies should do more to "shape the opposition" into a coherent force and open channels of communication directly with rebel military commanders. Previously, Britain and the U.S. have acknowledged contacts only with exile groups and political opposition figures inside Syria. (AP Photo)