War_Conflict

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Police surround the bodies of striking miners after opening fire on a crowd at the Lonmin Platinum Mine near Rustenburg, South Africa, on Aug. 16, 2012. (Associated Press)

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Pakistani police commandos wait to enter an air force base in Kamra, about 85 kilometers (50 miles) northwest of Islamabad, Pakistan, on Aug. 16, 2012, after at least half a dozen militants attacked the base before dawn, sparking a heavy battle that killed two security personnel and left parts of the base in flames, officials said. (Associated Press)

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**FILE** Afghan National Army Lt. Col. Abdul Wakil Warzajy (left), battalion commander, gives orders to soldiers of the First Battalion before they set out on a search and capture mission towards the village of Noor Khiel village, Logar province, eastern Afghanistan. (Associated Press)

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Gen. James Amos, the Marine Corps commandant, says the increase in attacks is a sign that the U.S. is defeating the Taliban. (Associated Press)

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Israeli schoolchildren wear gas masks during a drill in the central Israeli city of Lod in 2007. Matan Vilnai, Israel’s outgoing civil defense chief, said in an assessment published Wednesday that an attack on Iran’s nuclear sites would likely trigger a drawn-out war that would last for a month and kill as many as 500 Israelis. (Associated Press)

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Uotsuri Island, one of the islands of Senkaku as the Japanese call it and Diaoyu as the Chinese refer to it, is located in the East China Sea. Activists from China and South Korea used Wednesday’s anniversary of the end of World War II to press rival sea territory claims, prompting 14 arrests by Japanese police. (Kyodo News via Associated Press)

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Ibrahim Nsanzimana is led out of his overcrowded jail at the Congolese military intelligence offices in Goma, eastern Congo, on Friday. (Associated Press)

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Ibrahim Nsanzimana agreed to join the Rwandan army in early July. After getting a week of training, he was told he was joining a fight to take North Kivu province in eastern Congo and to make it part of Rwanda. (Associated Press)

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FBI and Metropolitan Police Department officials surround the Family Research Council building at 8th and G streets N.W. in Washington, D.C., on Wednesday, Aug. 15, 2012, following the shooting of a security guard at the conservative Christian lobbying group. The security guard was evidently shot in the arm before he wrestled the gunman to the ground. The suspect has now been taken into custody. (Barbara L. Salisbury/The Washington Times)

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FBI and Metropolitan Police Department officials surround the Family Research Council building at 8th and G streets N.W. in Washington, D.C. on Wednesday, Aug. 15, 2012 following the shooting of a security guard at the conservative Christian lobbying group. The security guard was evidently shot in the arm before he wrestled the gunman to the ground. The suspect has now been taken into custody. (Barbara L. Salisbury/The Washington Times)

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Police cordon off an area around the D.C. offices of the Family Research Council, where a security guard was shot Wednesday (Tom Howell Jr./The Washington Times)