War_Conflict

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Afghan President Hamid Karzai speaks at the presidential palace in Kabul, Afghanistan, on Thursday. NATO’s top official said the alliance remains committed to help enable Afghan forces to assume full responsibility for the country’s security. (The Associated Press)

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Pakistani soldiers patrol in the Pakistani tribal area of Ditta Kheil in North Waziristan. Leaders and opinion makers are divided over whether the government should respond by targeting the militants’ last major sanctuary along the Afghan border. (The Associated Press)

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Pakistani students hold pictures of 14-year-old schoolgirl Malala Yousufzai, who was shot by the Taliban, during a protest on Saturday. (Associated Press)

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Members of the Afghan National Civil Order Police (ANCOP) line up to get counter-IED training at Forward Operating Base Warrior in the Gelan district of Afghanistan's Ghazni province on Wednesday, Oct. 10, 2012. (AP Photo/Robert Burns)

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In this citizen journalism image provided by Lens Young Homsi, which has been authenticated based on its contents and other AP reporting, a destroyed house from Syrian government forces shelling, at Jouret al-Shiyah, in Homs province, Syria, Thursday Oct. 18, 2012. Syrian activists say a string of government airstrikes on rebel areas in the country's north has killed at least 20 people, leveled buildings and forced residents to dig through mounds of rubble in search of survivors. (AP Photo/Lens Yong Homsi)

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In this citizen journalism image provided by Lens Young Homsi, which has been authenticated based on its contents and other AP reporting, a general view of destroyed houses which was damaged by Syrian government forces shelling, at Baba Amr neighborhood, in Homs province, Syria, Thursday Oct. 18, 2012. Syrian activists say a string of government airstrikes on rebel areas in the country's north has killed at least 20 people, leveled buildings and forced residents to dig through mounds of rubble in search of survivors. (AP Photo/Lens Yong Homsi)

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Denver Police Commander Ron Saunier, right, talks about the arrest of three suspects in the murder of five people and a fire at a Denver bar during a news conference at Denver Police Headquarters on Thursday, Oct. 18, 2012. Police Chief Robert White listens at left. (AP Photo/Ed Andrieski)

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In this Jan. 26, 2012 file photo, Cook County Board President Toni Preckwinkle speaks at a news conference in Chicago. On Thursday, Oct. 18, 2012, Preckwinkle is set to propose a tax on bullets. She will propose five cents a bullet and a dollar for a box of 20 of them and 25 bucks per firearm. (AP Photo/M. Spencer Green, File)

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Denver police Cmdr. Ron Saunier (right) speaks at police headquarters on Thursday, Oct. 18, 2012, about the arrest of three suspects in the killing of five people and a fire at a Denver bar. Police Chief Robert White listens at left. (AP Photo/Ed Andrieski)

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A protester throws a stone as others take cover after scuffles broke out between groups of protesters in Tahrir square when chants against the new Islamist president angered some in the crowd in Cairo, Egypt, Friday, Oct. 12, 2012. Thousands of supporters and opponents of Egypt's new Islamist president clashed in Cairo's Tahrir Square on Friday, hurling stones and concrete and swinging sticks at each other in the first such violence since Mohammed Morsi took office more than three months ago. (AP Photo/Khalil Hamra)

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A protester throws a stone after scuffles broke out between groups of several hundred protesters in Tahrir square when chants against the new Islamist president angered some in the crowd in Cairo, Egypt, Friday, Oct. 12, 2012. The scuffles between supporters and opponents of President Mohammed Morsi reflect deep political divisions among the countryÃs 82 million people, more than a year after the popular uprising that toppled Hosni Mubarak. (AP Photo/Khalil Hamra)

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A protester throws a stone after scuffles broke out between groups of protesters in Tahrir square when chants against the new Islamist president angered some in the crowd in Cairo, Egypt, Friday, Oct. 12, 2012. Thousands of supporters and opponents of Egypt's new Islamist president clashed in Cairo's Tahrir Square on Friday, hurling stones and concrete and swinging sticks at each other in the first such violence since Mohammed Morsi took office more than three months ago. (AP Photo/Khalil Hamra)

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Protesters throw stones after scuffles broke out between groups of protesters in Tahrir square when chants against the new Islamist president angered some in the crowd in Cairo, Egypt, Friday, Oct. 12, 2012. Thousands of supporters and opponents of Egypt's new Islamist president clashed in Cairo's Tahrir Square on Friday, hurling stones and concrete and swinging sticks at each other in the first such violence since Mohammed Morsi took office more than three months ago. (AP Photo/Khalil Hamra)

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A protester throws a stone after scuffles broke out between groups of protesters in Tahrir square when chants against the new Islamist president angered some in the crowd in Cairo, Egypt, Friday, Oct. 12, 2012. Thousands of supporters and opponents of Egypt's new Islamist president clashed in Cairo's Tahrir Square on Friday, hurling stones and concrete and swinging sticks at each other in the first such violence since Mohammed Morsi took office more than three months ago. (AP Photo/Khalil Hamra)

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Afghan President Hamid Karzai (right) speaks during a joint press conference with NATO Secretary-General Anders Fogh Rasmussen at the presidential palace in Kabul, Afghanistan, on Thursday, Oct. 18, 2012. (AP Photo/Musadeq Sadeq)