War_Conflict

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Angry youths protest Jan. 11, 2012 at Lekki road on the third day of a nationwide strike following the removal of a fuel subsidy by the government in Lagos, Nigeria. (Associated Press)

** FILE ** Pakistani army soldiers gather at the site of suicide bombing at a paramilitary camp in Bannu, Pakistan, Saturday, Dec. 24, 2011. A Pakistani Taliban suicide bomber rammed a car filled with explosives into a paramilitary camp in northwestern Pakistan, killing a number of soldiers in the second attack in as many days meant to avenge the killing of senior commander in a U.S. drone strike. (AP Photo/Ijaz Muhammad)

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**FILE** Iraq's Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki (center) speaks at a ceremony marking Police Day at the police academy in Baghdad on Jan. 9, 2012. (Associated Press)

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FILE - In a Sunday, Dec. 25, 2011 file photo, medical officials try to treat a victim of a bomb blast at a Catholic church near Nigeria's capital at Suleja General Hospital in Suleja, Nigeria. An explosion ripped through a Catholic church during Christmas Mass near Nigeria's capital Sunday, killing at least 25 people, officials said. A radical Muslim sect, Boko Haram, claimed the attack and another bombing near a church in the restive city of Jos, as explosions also struck the nation's northeast. Boko Haram's insurgency started with robed men on motorcycles killing their enemies one at a time across Nigeria's remote and dusty northeast. Now the radical Muslim sect's attacks have morphed into a nationwide sectarian fight. (AP Photo/Dele Jones, File)

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Gul Rahman Qazi, center, head of an Afghan investigative commission speaks during a media conference in Kabul, Afghanistan, Saturday, Jan. 7, 2012. Afghan President Karzai had charged the commission with investigating the detention of some hundreds of suspected militants and the investigative commission has accused the U.S. military of abusing detainees at its largest prison. (AP Photo/Musadeq Sadeq)

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Syrian investigators inspect next to a damaged car at the scene of a bomb in Midan neighborhood of Damascus, Syria, on Jan. 6, 2012. An explosion ripped through a police bus, killing many in an attack authorities blamed on a suicide bomber, an official and state-run TV said. (Associated Press)

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President Obama, joined by Defense Secretary Leon E. Panetta (third from left), Joint Chiefs Chairman Gen. Martin Dempsey (center) and various senior Defense Department and military officials, discusses the Defense Strategic Review and a military strategy that will include large defense cuts at the Pentagon on Thursday. (Associated Press)

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Defense Secretary Leon E. Panetta stands by President Obama as he explains changes to military force and strategy that will result in the biggest defense cuts since the end of the Cold War. (Associated Press)

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Former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert was indicted Thursday on corruption charges for allegedly seeking hundreds of thousands of dollars in bribes. (Associated Press)

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Relatives carry the coffin of Rasha Hassan, 22, before her burial in the Shiite holy city of Najaf, 160 kilometers (100 miles) south of Baghdad, Iraq, Thursday, Jan. 5, 2012. A wave of explosions struck two Shiite neighborhoods on Thursday, killing and injuring dozens of Iraqis, police said, and intensifying fears that insurgents are stepping up attacks after the U.S. troop withdrawal that was completed last month. (AP Photo/Alaa al-Marjani)

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People inspect the scene of a bomb attack Baghdad, one of several explosions Thursday that struck two Shiite neighborhoods, intensifying fears that insurgents are stepping up attacks now that U.S. troops are gone. Relatives carry the coffin of Rasha Hassan, 22, before her burial in the Shiite holy city of Najaf, about 100 miles south of the capital.

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** FILE ** An anti-ballistic missile then under development by the U.S. and Israel lifts off in a test just off the California coast in July 2004. (Associated Press)

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People gather at the scene of a bomb attack in the Sadr City neighborhood of Baghdad of Thursday, Jan. 5, 2012. (AP Photo/Karim Kadim)

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Police officers and emergency crew are seen Jan. 4, 2012, near 3268 Jackson Street in Ogden, Utah, where 6 police officers were shot, including those from the Weber-Morgan Narcotics Strike Force and the Ogden Police Department, while serving a warrant. The suspect was also shot. (Associated Press/Standard-Examiner)

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People gather at the scene of a bomb attack in Sadr City, east of Baghdad, on Jan. 5, 2012. (Associated Press)

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Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas could pay a heavy price among Palestinians if he returns to formal peace negotiations without an Israeli settlement freeze. (Associated Press)

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French President Nicolas Sarkozy reviews sailors in Lanveoc-Poulmic before a speech in which he called the violence in Syria "a massacre." (Associated Press)

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Afghan and foreign soldiers are seen Jan. 3, 2012, on alert near the scene of a suicide attack in Kandahar, Afghanistan. A suicide bomber driving a motorcycle killed four civilians and a police officer, police said. (Associated Press)

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In this frame grab taken from surveillance video, a suspect throws a lit object at a home in the Queens borough of New York on Jan. 1, 2012. This attack and three others in the neighborhood, including one on a globally prominent Islamic cultural center, are being investigated as possibly linked bias crimes. (Associated Press/NYPD)

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Former Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak is wheeled into a court building in Cairo on Monday for the resumption of his trial in the deaths of more than 800 protesters during the uprising that toppled his 29-year regime last year. (Associated Press)