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**FILE** Chief Warrant Officer Charlie Morgan attends the OutServe Armed Forces Leadership Summit on Oct. 15, 2011, in Las Vegas. (Associated Press)
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**FILE** Former Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak is wheeled into a courthouse on Jan. 22 2012, in Cairo. Mubarak, who stepped down nearly a year ago, is charged along with his security chief and four police commanders of complicity in the killing of protesters during an 18-day uprising. (Associated Press)
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A child cries out for her father as she pushes on a prison gate with police standing on the other side Sunday at a prison on the outskirts of Monterrey, Mexico, that was the scene of deadly rioting. (Associated Press)
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Protesters throw rocks at police, who respond with tear gas, on a central boulevard in Dakar, Senegal, on Sunday. The fifth consecutive day of pre-election clashes took on a religious dimension in this normally tolerant Muslim nation. (Associated Press)
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Shin Gambira, a dissident monk in Myanmar who helped lead an uprising against the government, is facing new legal action after being released from jail Jan. 13. (Associated Press)
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Jean-Marie Le Pen used his oratory skills to denounce the "decadence" of French society, promote an anti-immigration "French first" agenda and try to cast doubt upon the Holocaust. (Associated Press)
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Mourners carry the coffins of two protesters at Mazzeh district in Damascus. Activists say that they were killed by Syrian security forces during a demonstration. (Associated Press)
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Security forces prepare to tow away a destroyed automobile after a car bombing outside the fortified police academy near the Interior Ministry headquarters in Baghdad on Sunday, Feb. 19, 2012. (AP Photo/Karim Kadim)
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U.S. Capitol Police officers keep watch after a 29-year-old Moroccan man was arrested Friday in an FBI sting operation near the Capitol while planning to detonate what police said he thought were live explosives, in Washington, Friday, Feb. 17, 2012. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)
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An Airport Security officer talks Feb. 17, 2012, to a tourist during a patrol at Suvarnabhumi airport in Bangkok. Thai police said they are searching for two more suspects, including a possible explosives specialist, in a botched terror plot against Israeli diplomats that has been blamed on Iran. (Associated Press)
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**FILE** Libyan militias from towns throughout the country's west parade through Tripoli, Libya, on Feb. 14, 2012. (Associated Press)
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Government army soldiers on top of an armored personnel carrier patrol a street at the mountain resort town of Zabadani, Syria, near the Lebanese border. A human rights group said Syrian troops "committed a new massacre" near the northwestern town of Jisr al-Shughour, killing 19 people - 11 of them from the same family. The report was impossible to confirm.
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North Korean soldiers goose-step below a portrait of the late North Korean leader Kim Jong-il during a military parade at Kumsusan Memorial Palace in Pyongyang, North Korea, to commemorate Kim's 70th birthday on Thursday, Feb. 16, 2012. (AP Photo/David Guttenfelder)
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**FILE** Thai Explosive Ordnance Disposal (EOD) officials examine Feb. 15, 2012, the damage caused by a blast at the house where suspected bomber Saeid Moradi was staying in Bangkok. Two Iranian suspects arrested in Bangkok after three explosions hit the city were likely planning to attack individuals but did not have the capacity to target large crowds or buildings, Thai police said. (Associated Press)
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A Syrian rebel looks out after Syrian army tanks enter the northwestern city of Idlib, Syria, on Feb. 14, 2012. (Associated Press)
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ASSOCIATED PRESS Chicago police arrest activists during a 2003 anti-war demonstration. A city alderman is pushing an ordinance barring electronic-device blackouts by police at the May G-8 and NATO summits.
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Soldiers scramble during clashes Wednesday with relatives of inmates after a deadly prison fire in Comayagua, Honduras. As many as 350 inmates are missing and presumed dead and at least 21were injured in the blaze, authorities said. (Associated Press)
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ASSOCIATED PRESS PHOTOGRAPHS Soldiers scramble during clashes Wednesday with relatives of inmates after a deadly prison fire in Comayagua, Honduras. As many as 350 inmates are missing and presumed dead and at least 21were injured in the blaze, authorities said.
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Somalis march through the streets of Mogadishu at a government-organized rally against the militant group al-Shabab on Wednesday. Many of the demonstrators were protesting the recent merger between al Qaeda and al-Shabab. (Associated Press)
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Al-Shabab fighters march with their weapons during military exercises on the outskirts of Mogadishu, Somalia, in February 2011. Over the past year, al-Shabab has lost much of the territory it held. (Associated Press)
