War_Conflict

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A local operator reports security information into the Early Warning Radio Network, which supplies radios to remote jungle villages in Congo, Central African Republic and South Sudan so villagers can report attacks by the brutal Lord's Resistance Army. (Invisible Children via Associated Press)

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Joseph Kony, seen in 2006, is leader of the Lord's Resistance Army, a Ugandan rebel militia that is blamed for tens of thousands of rapes, mutilations and killings over the past 26 years. U.S. Special Forces troops are helping hunt the LRA. (Associated Press)

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Police arrest an Occupy L.A. protester as they cleared out the Occupy L.A. camp at Los Angeles City Hall on Wednesday, Nov. 30, 2011. (AP Photo/Mark Boster, Pool)

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Ruins of homes destroyed by Iranian artillery during the Iran-Iraq war of 1980-88 remain standing in Mandali, a mixed Kurdish-Arab city about 60 miles northeast of Baghdad. (Associated Press)

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Iranian pilgrims buy Shiite amulets near the al-Askari shrine in Samarra, 60 miles north of Baghdad. Many in Iraq's Shiite majority are wary of infringement of their country's sovereignty and afraid of being overrun by the Iranian theocracy. (Associated Press)

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Iranian goods are displayed at a shop in Baghdad. Iran's presence is already visible in Iraq, from the pilgrims at Shiite holy sites to the brands of yogurt and jams on grocery shelves. (Associated Press)

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Protesters condemn the weekend NATO strikes on Pakistani border posts as they demonstrate in Lahore, Pakistan, on Monday, Nov. 28, 2011. (AP Photo/K.M.Chaudary)

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** FILE ** U.S. soldiers board a military plane as they leave Afghanistan from the U.S. base in Bagram Air Field north of Kabul, Afghanistan, on Thursday, July 14, 2011. (AP Photo/Musadeq Sadeq)

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Egyptian army soldiers stand guard as voters line up outside a polling center in Assuit, 200 miles south of Cairo, on Monday. Voting began on Monday in Egypt's first parliamentary elections since longtime authoritarian leader Hosni Mubarak was ousted in a popular uprising nine months ago. The vote is a milestone many Egyptians hope will usher in a democratic age. (Associated Press)

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John Lockwood, a retired battalion fire chief in the D.C. Fire Department and former member of Engine Co. 24, speaks during Engine Company 24's centennial celebration. (T.J. Kirkpatrick/ The Washington Times)

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Egyptians wave national flags while protesting against the country's ruling military council in Cairo's Tahrir Square on Sunday. "How can we have elections right after so many people have died?" asked farmer Hemdan El-Ready. (Associated Press)

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Ten immigrants from the former Soviet Union, six of them Jewish, were injured in an explosion that tore through the entrance tunnel to a central Duesseldorf commuter train station on July 27, 2000. (Associated Press)

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Beate Zschaepe surrendered to police days after a pair of pistols found in two violent fires led authorities to the Nationalist Socialist Underground. (Associated Press)

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Protesters rally in Lahore, Pakistan, on Sunday, Nov. 27, 2011, to condemn a NATO airstrike on Pakistani troops that killed 24 along the nation's border with Afghanistan. (AP Photo/K.M. Chaudary)

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Protesters shout slogans against Egypt's military ruling council during a demonstration in Tahrir Square, the focal point of the Egyptian uprising, in Cairo on Sunday, Nov. 27, 2011. (AP Photo/Amr Nabil)

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Afghanistan-bound trucks carrying supplies for NATO forces are forced to park after authorities closed the Torkham border crossing in Pakistan on Sunday, Nov. 27, 2011. (AP Photo/Qazi Rauf)

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Relatives of slain hostage Elkin Hernandez, at his family home in Bogota, Colombia, Saturday Nov. 26, 2011. Colombia's President Juan Manuel Santos said that rebels of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, FARC, killed four members of the security forces, including Hernandez, a police major kidnapped in 1998. All were found killed execution-style Saturday morning in the southern state of Caqueta after been held between 12 and 13 years. (AP Photo/William Fernando Martinez)

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Pakistani protesters shout slogans against America and NATO in Lahore, Pakistan, on Saturday, Nov. 26, 2011. Pakistan on Saturday accused NATO helicopters and fighter jets of firing on two army checkpoints and killing 24 soldiers. Islamabad retaliated by closing the border crossings used by the international coalition to supply its troops in neighboring Afghanistan. (AP Photo/K.M.Chaudary)

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Pakistani security personnel stop trucks carrying supplies for NATO forces in neighboring Afghanistan at Takhtabeg check post in Pakistani tribal area of Khyber, Pakistan, on their way to Torkham border post on Saturday, Nov 26, 2011. Pakistan on Saturday accused NATO helicopters of firing on two army checkpoints in the northwest and killing 25 soldiers, then retaliated by closing a key border crossing used by the coalition to supply its troops in neighboring Afghanistan. (AP Photo/Muhammad Sajjad)