War_Conflict

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Baltimore Ravens inside linebacker Ray Lewis looks up at the scoreboard during the second half of the AFC championship NFL football game against the New England Patriots on Sunday, Jan. 22, 2012, in Foxborough, Mass. The Patriots defeated the Ravens 23-20. (AP Photo/Winslow Townson)

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Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan visits the site of the police headquarters bombed by a suicide bomber in Kano, Nigeria, on Sunday. (Associated Press)

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Civilians examine the police headquarters bombed by a suicide bomber in Kano, Nigeria, on Sunday. More than 150 people were killed in a series of attacks.

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Baltimore Ravens kicker Billy Cundiff (7) walks past ball holder Sam Koch after missing a 32 yard field goal in the closing seconds of the AFC Championship game Sunday, Jan. 22, 2012, in Foxborough, Mass. The Patriots defeated the Ravens 23-20. (AP Photo/Winslow Townson)

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Demonstrators clashed Jan. 14, 2012, with police, who used tear gas and flares to repel demonstrators who were hurling stones and firebombs. (Associated Press)

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Syrian army defectors gather at the mountain resort town of Zabadani, Syria, near the Lebanese border, on Friday, Jan. 20, 2012. President Bashar Assad's forces attacked Zabadani for six days, sparking fierce fighting that involved heavy bombardments and clashes with the defectors. (AP Photo)

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A displaced Somali woman walks past an armored vehicle of an African Union peacekeeping force that was transporting journalists in Mogadishu, Somalia, on Thursday, Jan. 19, 2012. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis)

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Red Cross officials collect bodies from a street in Kano, Nigeria, on Saturday, Jan. 21, 2012, after a bomb blast and gun attacks Friday night. (AP Photo/Salisu Rabiu)

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** FILE ** Protesters hold placards depicting Egypt's ousted President Hosni Mubarak, one encircled in a noose, at a rally honoring those killed in clashes with security forces in Tahrir Square in Cairo, Egypt, Friday, Jan. 20, 2012, nearly a year after the 18-day uprising that ousted Mubarak. (AP Photo/Khalil Hamra)

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** FILE ** In this Jan. 15, 2010, file photograph, Hamas leader Khaled Mashaal speaks to journalists after his meeting with Lebanese Prime Minister Saad Hariri in Beirut, Lebanon. Mashaal won't seek re-election, Hamas announced Saturday, paving the way for a leadership contest and possible struggle over the ideological direction of the Islamic militant group. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla, File)

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A victim of Friday's bomb blast and gun attacks lies in Murtala Muhammad specialist hospital in Kano, Nigeria Saturday, Jan. 21, 2012. Coordinated attacks claimed by a radical Islamist sect killed at least 120 people in north Nigeria's largest city, hospital records seen Saturday show, as gunfire still echoed around some areas of the sprawling city. (AP Photo/Salisu Rabiu)

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**FILE** A British military official with the NATO-led International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) adjusts his helmet Jan. 19, 2012, as a NATO helicopter lands at the Provincial Reconstruction Team compound in Lashkar Gah, Helmand province, south of Kabul, Afghanistan. (Associated Press)

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U.S. soldiers with the NATO led International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) stand guard at the scene of a suicide attack in Kandahar south of Kabul, Afghanistan, Thursday, Jan. 19, 2012. In a separate incident, a senior U.S. defense official says all six reported killed in the crash of a U.S. helicopter in Afghanistan were U.S. Marines. (AP Photo/Allauddin Khan)

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A U.S. soldier with the NATO led International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) walks Jan. 19, 2012, by a damaged vehicle at the scene of a suicide attack in Kandahar south of Kabul, Afghanistan. The attacker blew himself up at an entrance to a sprawling base for U.S. and NATO operations in southern Afghanistan, killing at least six civilians, police said. (Associated Press)

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Associated Press The National Churchill Library and Center at George Washington University will be devoted to British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, who was admired for his leadership during World War II.

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UNDER SIEGE: Mona Hanna says she fears for the future of her town, Abo Korkas, Egypt. She and nine other families fled their homes last year after armed Muslim men set her house afire. (Sarah Lynch/Special to The Washington Times)

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In this photo released by Saudi Press Agency, Saudi crown prince Nayef bin Abdel-Aziz, right, welcomes Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, Saturday, Jan. 14, 2012. China's premier visits Saudi Arabia as part of six-day Mideast trip that also takes him to the United Arab Emirates and qatar. The visit to the region runs from Jan. 14-19. Wen Jiabao is slated to discuss the Arab Spring uprising and talks are likely to also focus on the latest U.S. sanctions on Iran, a major oil exporter to China. (AP Photo/HO) EDITORIAL USE ONLY, NO SALES