War_Conflict

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A Pakistani police officer stands guard in June at a police station damaged by suicide bombers in Dera Ismail Khan, Pakistan. The bombing, which killed nine officers, was in retaliation for the deaths of four Black Night Taliban killed by police 10 days earlier after a brazen daylight bank robbery. (Associated Press)

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Revolutionary fighters celebrate an accurate tank shot at Gadhafi loyalist positions in Sirte, Libya, on Thursday. Anti-Gadhafi fighters have been closing in on armed supporters of the fugitive leader in Sirte, the most important of two major cities yet to be cleared of loyalists more than two months after the fall of Tripoli. (Associated Press)

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Israeli border police fire tear gas towards Palestinians during clashes outside the Ofer military prison near the West Bank city of Ramallah on Oct. 12, 2011. (Associated Press)

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A U.S. Predator unmanned drone armed with a missile sits on the tarmac of Kandahar military airport in Afghanistan in June 2010. Defense Secretary Leon E. Panetta has praised the Predator for its precision-targeting ability, which minimizes collateral damage. (Associated Press)

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Iraqi security forces stand guard Wednesday in front of a police station in Baghdad's Hurriyah neighborhood, one of several areas in the city where bombings targeting police killed 25 people on Wednesday morning. (Associated Press)

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Displaced families who fled famine in Somalia a couple of months ago take shelter in a destroyed building after moving out of their makeshift tents, which became flooded by rains, in Mogadishu, Somalia. Fighting broke out there over the weekend, killing at least 20. (Associated Press)

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Civilians flee from a part of Mogadishu where al-Shabab is digging trenches and African Union forces are moving in. (Associated Press)

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Rapper Kanye West mixes in with the "Occupy Wall Street" protests in New York's Zuccotti Park. (Associated Press)

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Egyptian Christians protest outside St. Mark's Cathedral in Cairo against the country's military ruling council on Monday, Oct. 10, 2011. (AP Photo/Amr Nabil)

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Palestinian Hamas supporters celebrate the announcement of a prisoner swap deal with Israel, in the Jebaliya refugee camp, northern Gaza Strip on Oct. 11, 2011. Israeli and Hamas have reached a deal to free captured Israeli soldier Gilad Schalit, held by Hamas-linked militants in the Gaza Strip since 2006, in exchange for hundreds of Palestinian prisoners, officials from both sides said. (Associated Press)

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Alaa Mohammed grieves over the coffin of his brother, Iraqi policeman Sattar Mohammed, in Baghdad on Wednesday, Oct. 12, 2011. A slew of bombings targeting police in the capital killed 25 people and wounded scores of others, police said. (AP Photo/Karim Kadim)

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Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. has been accused of a "lack of trustworthiness" in telling what he knew about the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives' "Fast and Furious" probe involving straw purchases of guns that were then "walked" into Mexico and given to drug smugglers. (Associated Press)

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Boston Police officers arrest protesters on Tuesday in a section of the Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy Parkway adjacent to Dewey Square in Boston. (Boston Herald via Associated Press)

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Ukrainian riot police officers block supporters of former Ukrainian Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko outside the Pecherskiy District Court in Kiev on Tuesday. (Associated Press)

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Sgt. Gilad Schalit was captured by militants from Gaza during a cross-border raid on June 25, 2006. His release will cap five years of negotiations. (Associated Press)

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Egyptian Coptic Christians vent their anger in front of the state television building in Cairo after the recent attacks on Christians and churches. In the past few weeks, riots have broken out at two churches in southern Egypt, prompted by Muslim crowds angered by rumors that Christians were building new churches. The violence is particularly frustrating for Copts because after President Hosni Mubarak's fall, the new government promised to review and lift heavy restrictions on building or renovating churches. (Associated Press)