War_Conflict

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A month after Haiti's January 2010 earthquake, Angelina Jolie visits at MSF Hospital in Port-au-Prince with a 10-year-old boy who lost a leg in the quake. The actress is a United Nations special envoy for refugees. (United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees via Associated Press)

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Hezbollah leader Sheik Hassan Nasrallah, speaks to the crowd in a rare public appearance during a rally to mark the Muslim holy day of Ashoura, in the Hezbollah stronghold of south Beirut, Lebanon, on Tuesday Dec. 6, 2011. Sheik Hassan Nasrallah has rarely been seen in public since his Shiite Muslim group battled Israel in a monthlong war in 2006, fearing Israeli assassination. Since then, he has communicated with his followers and gives news conference mostly via satellite link. Ashoura marks the anniversary of the death in the seventh century of the Prophet Muhammad's grandson Imam Hussein. His death in a battle outside of the Iraqi city of Karbala sealed Islam's historical Sunni-Shiite split, which still bedevils the Middle East. Ashoura is one of the holiest days of the Muslim Shiite calendar. (AP Photo/Bilal Hussein)

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**FILE** Coup leader Capt. Amadou Haya Sanogo (right) speaks March 29, 2012, during a walkabout at the airport in Bamako, Mali. (Associated Press)

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Former Liberian President Charles Taylor is on trial for war crimes in Sierra Leone, but many Liberians want him to face justice for massacres, rapes and torture committed during his rule of their country. (International Criminal Court via Associated Press)

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Gunfire and smoke is seen coming out of a building occupied by militants during a battle with Afghan-led forces in Kabul, Afghanistan, on Monday. The Afghan capital awoke Monday to a second day of explosions and heavy gunfire as Afghan-led forces worked to defeat insurgents holed up in the building in the heart of the city and another near parliament. (Associated Press)

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Afghans examine the body of a militant who was shot at a security booth after a gunbattle in Kabul on Monday. A brazen, 18-hour Taliban attack on the Afghan capital ended early Monday when insurgents who had holed up overnight in two buildings were overcome by heavy gunfire from Afghan-led forces and pre-dawn air assaults from U.S.-led coalition helicopters.

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Members of the Women of the American Civil War, from Orange County, Va., Lillian Garland, portraying the part of Elizabeth Keckley (left) and Denise Benedetto, portraying the part of Mary Elizabeth Bowser (right) wave to the crowd as they march in the District of Columbia Emancipation Day 2012 parade in Washington, D.C., Monday, April 16, 2012., celebrating the150th anniversary of the District of Columbia Emancipation Act. 150 ears ago, on April 16, 1862, President Abraham Lincoln signed a bill ending slavery in the District of Columbia. Passage of this law came 8 1/2 months before President Lincoln signed his Emancipation Proclamation. (Rod Lamkey Jr/The Washington Times)

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Members of the 3rd U.S. Infantry Old Guard Fife and Drum Corps are seen through the colors of an African flag as they wait to march in the District of Columbia Emancipation Day 2012 parade in Washington, D.C., Monday, April 16, 2012., celebrating the150th anniversary of the District of Columbia Emancipation Act. 150 ears ago, on April 16, 1862, President Abraham Lincoln signed a bill ending slavery in the District of Columbia. Passage of this law came 8 1/2 months before President Lincoln signed his Emancipation Proclamation. (Rod Lamkey Jr/The Washington Times)

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Robert Wright portrays a member of the 54th Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry as he and others waits to march in the District of Columbia Emancipation Day 2012 parade in Washington, D.C., Monday, April 16, 2012., celebrating the150th anniversary of the District of Columbia Emancipation Act. 150 ears ago, on April 16, 1862, President Abraham Lincoln signed a bill ending slavery in the District of Columbia. Passage of this law came 8 1/2 months before President Lincoln signed his Emancipation Proclamation. (Rod Lamkey Jr/The Washington Times)

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Afghan special forces hold their weapons after a gunbattle with insurgents near the Afghan parliament in Kabul, Afghanistan, on Monday, April 16, 2012. (AP Photo/Ahmad Jamshid)

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Army Capt. Mark Moretti meets with a village elder before his unit leaves an outpost in the Korengal Valley of Afghanistan. During a shift in tactics, U.S. forces gave up a network of hilltop platoon outposts in favor of a more mobile engagement of the Taliban. (Department of Defense)

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A NATO soldier is poised to respond at the scene of an attack by the Taliban in Kabul, Afghanistan, on Sunday. At least two Taliban were killed and five people were wounded in the capital. There were attacks in three other cities. (Associated Press)

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** FILE ** Israeli police officers are deployed at the Ben Gurion Airport near Tel Aviv on Sunday, April 15, 2012, to detain activists flying in to protest the country's occupation of Palestinian areas. (AP Photo/Dan Balilty)

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Pakistani security officials visit the central prison in Bannu, 106 miles south of Peshawar, Pakistan, on Sunday, April 15, 2012, after Taliban militants battled their way into the prison and freed close to 400 prisoners, including at least 20 described by police as "very dangerous" insurgents, authorities and the militants said. (AP Photo/Ijaz Muhammad)

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Smoke rises following attacks on Sunday, April 15, 2012, by Taliban militants on three neighborhoods of Kabul, Afghanistan, that are home to government buildings, Western embassies and NATO facilities. (AP Photo/AP Video)

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U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Susan Rice addresses members of the media at U.N. headquarters Saturday, April 14, 2012 after the United Nations Security Council cast a unanimous vote authorizing the deployment of the first wave of U.N. military observers to monitor a cease-fire between the Syrian government and opposition fighters. (AP Photo/Craig Ruttle)

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Italian tourist guide Paulo Bosusco talks to media upon his arrival April 12, 2012, at Delhi International Airport in New Delhi on his way back to Italy. Maoist rebels earlier that day released Bosusco from a remote forest area of eastern India after the state government agreed to release five rebels from prison. (Associated Press)