War_Conflict

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President Obama speaks at the White House on Oct 21, 2011, addressing the status of U.S. forces in Iraq. (Associated Press)

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**FILE** A U.S. army soldier transfers a container at Camp Sather, part of the sprawling U.S. military Victory Base Complex that is set to close in Baghdad on Oct. 15, 2011. (Associated Press)

Rufi Etxeberria (second left), Basque pro independence politician of the outlawed Batasuna party, speaks at a press conference in San Sebastian, Spain, on Oct. 21, 2011, the day after ETA announced the end of its armed struggle. (Associated Press)

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Pakistani army soldiers salute the coffins of their colleagues killed in a gun battle with militants during a funeral prayer in Peshawar, Pakistan, on Oct. 21, 2011. Militants attacked a group of paramilitary soldiers conducting a search operation in Pakistan's Khyber tribal area the previous night, sparking fighting that killed three soldiers and 34 militants, said Farooq Khan, a senior government official in the area. (Associated Press)

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In 1988, investigators sift through Pan Am Flight 103 wreckage in Lockerbie, Scotland. Moammar Gadhafi's reported death resonated with the families who had loved ones on the airliner and who held Col. Gadhafi responsible for approving the bombing that killed 270 people.

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Col. Moammar Gadhafi (left) is greeted by Egyptian Prime Minister Gamal Abdel Nasser during the dictator's first visit to Egypt after his military coup in Libya.

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Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton is greeted by Afghanistan President Hamid Karzai in Kabul on Thursday. She stressed the U.S. commitment to the Afghan peace process. (Associated Press)

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Thousands of high school students and citizens march in the streets of Ankara, the Turkish capital, on Thursday to denounce the killing of 24 soldiers by Kurdish rebels as the military pressed ahead with its air and ground offensive against the insurgents across the Iraqi border. (Associated Press)

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Claire Danes stars as a CIA analyst who becomes convinced that a recently found POW is guilty of treason in the new Showtime series 'Homeland'. (Showtime)

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Hawo Mohamed Hassan (left) and Amina Farah Ali were convicted Thursday of conspiring to funnel money to a terrorist group in Somalia. The Minnesota women are both U.S. citizens of Somali descent. (Associated Press)

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Libyan leader Col. Moammar Gadhafi holds a baton on Sept. 1, 1987, as he sits to review Libyan troops during the 18th anniversary celebration of Libya's revolution in Tripoli. (Associated Press)

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In this photo from Aug. 18, 1976, Libyan leader Col. Moammar Gadhafi speaks to the summit meeting of the nonaligned nations in Colombo, Sri Lanka. (Associated Press)

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In this photo from October 1969, Col. Moammar Gadhafi (left) appears with Egypt's Prime Minister Gamal Abdel Nasser (right) during his first official visit to Egypt after a military coup in Libya. (Associated Press)

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Libyans celebrate Col. Moammar Gadhafi's death in Tripoli, Libya, on Oct. 20, 2011. (Associated Press)

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Communist-backed union protesters run from a firebomb hurled by other demonstrators in Athens on Thursday, Oct. 20, 2011. (AP Photo/Thanassis Stavrakis)

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Libyan fighters celebrate in the streets of Sirte, Libya, in this image taken from TV on Thursday, Oct. 20, 2011. The Libyan fighters on Thursday overran the remaining positions of Col. Moammar Gadhafi's loyalists in his hometown of Sirte, ending the last major resistance by former regime supporters still holding out two months after the fall of the capital, Tripoli. (AP Photo/APTN)

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A man who lost a relative as Copts and Egyptian troops clashed on Oct. 9 holds a cross Oct. 10 in front of the Cairo morgue. (Associated Press)

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Greek riot police officers, covered in red paint thrown by protesters, react during clashes in central Athens on Wednesday. Anger over new austerity measures and layoffs erupted into violence, as demonstrators hurled chunks of marble and gasoline bombs and riot police responded with tear gas and stun grenades. (Associated Press)

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Joseph Kony is the ruthless leader of the Lord's Resistance Army and the biggest target for Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni, who has committed thousands of troops to fight militants from al-Shabab, a group with ties from al Qaeda. (Associated Press)

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U.S. Marine Gen. John R. Allen, the top NATO commander in Afghanistan, gives an interview to the Associated Press in Kabul, Afghanistan, on Wednesday, Oct. 19, 2011. (AP Photo/Muhammed Muheisen)