War_Conflict

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Lebanese riot police stand guard in front of the government palace behind a barbed wire barricade decorated with the national flag by anti-government protesters in downtown Beirut on Oct. 22, 2012. Lebanese troops launched a major security operation on Monday to open all roads and force gunmen off the streets, trying to contain an outburst of violence set off by the assassination of a top intelligence official who was a powerful opponent of Syria. Sectarian clashes killed at least five people. (Associated Press)

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Lebanese Army soldiers patrol a neighborhood after overnight clashes between Sunni and Shiite gunmen in Beirut on Oct. 22, 2012. (Associated Press)

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People dine at a cafe just steps away from the site of car bomb attack that killed Brig. Gen. Wissam al-Hassan in the Achrafieh district of Beirut on Oct. 23, 2012. (Associated Press)

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Mourners shout religious slogans Oct. 23, 2012, in the Sunni neighborhood of Tarik al-Jadida in Beirut during the funeral procession of Palestinian Ahmad Queider, 20, who was killed the day before as he rode his motorcycle during an exchange of gunfire between Lebanese troops and gunmen. (Associated Press)

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Mourners prepare the body of Palestinian Ahmad Queider, 20, for burial at a hospital morgue in the Sunni neighborhood of Tarik al-Jadida in Beirut on Oct. 23, 2012. Queider was killed Monday as he rode his motorcycle during an exchange of gunfire between Lebanese troops and gunmen. (Associated Press)

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A Lebanese woman mourns Oct. 23, 2012, in the Sunni neighborhood of Tarik al-Jadida in Beirut during the funeral procession of Palestinian Ahmad Queider, 20, who was killed the previous day during exchange of gunfire between Lebanese troops and gunmen as he rode his motorcycle. (Associated Press)

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A Lebanese rescuer carries Joseph Naimeh, 6, at the scene of a car bomb attack in the mostly Christian neighborhood of Achrafiyeh in Beirut on Oct. 19, 2012. (Associated Press)

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In this photograph made on Thursday July 29, 2010, upon landing after a helicopter rescue mission, Tech. Sgt. Jeff Hedglin, right, an Air Force Pararescueman, or PJ, drapes an American flag over the remains of the first of two U.S. soldiers killed minutes earlier in an IED attack, assisted by fellow PJs, Senior Airman Robert Dieguez, center, and 1st Lt. Matthew Carlisle, in Kandahar province, southern Afghanistan. July 2010 was the deadliest month for American forces in the nearly 9-year Afghan War. (AP Photo/Brennan Linsley)

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In this picture taken Sunday, May 8, 2011, US Marine Staff Sgt. Tony Palomo of Louisiana is flown to hospital on a medevac helicopter from the US Army's Task Force Lift "Dust Off", Charlie Company 1-214 Aviation Regiment north of Forward Operating Base Edi, after being injured in an IED blast in the volatile Helmand Province of southern Afghanistan. (AP Photo/Kevin Frayer)

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** FILE ** U.S. Army chief Spc. Jenny Martinez holds the hand of an injured U.S. Marine who was wounded in an IED strike in June, 2011. (AP Photo/Anja Niedringhaus)

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In this photo taken Sunday, Oct. 10, 2010, a US Army soldier from Scout Platoon 502 Infantry Regiment, 101st Airborne Division searches an associate of a suspected Taliban IED placer, seen in a wheelbarrow, who was killed in a coalition missile strike in Zhari district, Kandahar province. The Scouts' mission was to support roadside bomb clearance efforts in the militant stronghold, the latest days-long phase of Operation Dragon Strike. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd)

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U.S. guards at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, are on constant watch for signs of unrest and conspiracy among the detainees. News of scandals in the Muslim world, such as recent protests over a YouTube video, can further aggravate the tense environment. (Associated Press)

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Army Spc. Danny Aoun, of Garden Grove, Calif, is a a guard at the U.S. military detention center in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. (Photo by Sgt. Ryan Hallock/U.S. Army)