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Libyan rebel fighters speed toward the front-line fighting in the village of Mayah, Libya, some 18 miles west of Tripoli, the capital, on Sunday, Aug. 21, 2011. (AP Photo/Sergey Ponomarev)
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Egyptians sit on a wall as they attend a protest against the deaths of Egyptian security forces killed in a shootout between Israeli soldiers and Palestinian militants on Thursday in the Sinai, in front of the Israeli embassy in Cairo, Egypt, Saturday, Aug. 20, 2011. Egypt said Saturday it would recall its ambassador from Israel to protest the deaths, sharply escalating tensions between the neighboring countries, whose 1979 peace treaty is being tested by the fall of Egypt's longtime autocratic leader, Hosni Mubarak. (AP Photo/Khalil Hamra)
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Supporters of Syrian President Bashar Assad shout slogans and wave their national flag, as they protest to show their solidarity to their president, in Damascus, Syria, on Friday Aug. 19, 2011. Assad, who inherited power from his father in 2000, is facing the most serious international isolation of his rule. On Thursday, the United States and its European allies demanded he step down. Syrian security forces killed at least 20 protesters Friday despite promises by President Bashar Assad that the military operations against the 5-month-old uprising are over. (AP Photo/Muzaffar Salman)
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Rebel fighters, foreground, pray during Friday prayers in the rebel-held town of Benghazi, Libya, Friday, Aug. 19, 2011. (AP Photo/Alexandre Meneghini)
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Israeli soldiers secure the area near roads leading to the sites of several attacks in the Arava desert, near the southern Israeli resort town of Eilat on Aug. 19, 2011. (Associated Press)
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Pakistani villagers carry the body of a boy killed in a suicide bombing in Ghundi, in the Pakistani tribal area of Khyber, on Aug. 19, 2011. (Associated Press)
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A Libyan rebel tank that once belonged to troops loyal to Col. Moammar Gadhafi blocks access to a road in Zawiya on Sunday. (Associated Press)
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A Libyan rebel sniper peers through his scope in Sabratha, 50 miles west of Tripoli, on Wednesday. Regime snipers positioned in tall buildings, including a bank and a hotel, take aim at anyone who moves. Rebel fighters, who control the west and south of Zawiyah, say they are confident that they will soon drive out Col. Gadhafi's soldiers entrenched in the east of the city. (Associated Press)
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AFTERMATH: Israeli soldiers are treated Thursday after a shooting attack along the border between Israel and Egypt. Assailants armed with heavy weapons and explosives crossed into southern Israel from the Sinai Peninsula, killing eight Israelis and wounding at least a dozen in Eilat. (Associated Press)
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Police officers stop the traffic on a road in the Arava Desert leading to the southern Israeli town of Eilat on Thursday after gunmen crossed from the neighboring Egyptian Sinai Peninsula. They killed six Israelis and wounded at least a dozen in a string of attacks. (Associated Press)
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A Libyan rebel tank that once belonged to troops loyal to Moammar Gadhafi blocks access to a road in Zawiya on Sunday. (Associated Press)
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A Libyan rebel sniper peers through his scope in Sabratha, 50 miles west of Tripoli, on Wednesday. Regime snipers positioned in tall buildings, including a bank and a hotel, take aim at anyone who moves. Rebel fighters, who control the west and south of Zawiya, say they are confident they will soon drive out Col. Gadhafi's soldiers entrenched in the east of the city. (Associated Press)
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A shura of village elders last month was sparsely attended, as were others in the past several months. Afghan leaders in Helmand province face daunting problems, such as drought, joblessness and the chaos of living between two determined combat forces.
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A passenger bus was damaged when assailants carried out three consecutive attacks in southern Israel near the Egyptian border on Thursday, Aug. 18, 2011. (AP Photo/Channel 2 TV)
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The interior of a damaged passenger bus is pictured after one of three attacks in southern Israel near the Egyptian border on Thursday, Aug. 18, 2011. (AP Photo/Channel 2 TV)
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ASSOCIATED PRESS In this photo taken on a government-organized tour, a Libyan army soldier fires his weapon into the air at the main Green Square in Tripoli on Tuesday. Rebels pushed into the city of Zawiya on Saturday, but after four days of fighting, Col. Moammar Gadhafi's soldiers still control about 30 percent of the coastal city, located 30 miles west of Tripoli.
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ASSOCIATED PRESS PHOTOGRAPHS President Joseph Kabila (far left) arrives for the yearly national parade held in Kinshasa. He has held office for more than 10 years and recently secured constitutional changes that strengthen his powers and revise the country's voting system. He faces a possible challenge at the polls this November from Jean-Pierre Bemba, Vital Kamerhe and Etienne Tshisekedi (starting second photo, left). Mr. Bemba is awaiting a war crimes trial at the International Criminal Court at The Hague. United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, left, and National Assembly President Vital Kamerhe, right, shake hands in Kinshasa, Congo, Saturday, Jan. 27, 2007. Ki-moon held up Congo's first elections in 46 years as a sign of hope for the rest of war-torn Africa, praising the country's fragile democracy Saturday. (AP Photo/John Bompeng) Veteran opposition leader Etienne Tshisekedi is seen at his residence in Kinshasa, Congo in this Thursday, June 15, 2006 photo. A former prime minister under the Mobutu regime, he remains an influential figure and his support could boost any of Congo's presidential hopefuls. (AP Photo)
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ASSOCIATED PRESS Retired Gen. Solomon Mujuru, one of Zimbabwe's main political power brokers, died overnight Tuesday in fire at one of his homes. His death raises questons about who will take control of the party of longtime President Robert Mugabe should he die or retire.
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Anna Hazare gestures to supporters from the back of a police van after he was detained prior to beginning a hunger strike on Tuesday.
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ASSOCIATED PRESS PHOTOGRAPHS A supporter of Indian anti-corruption activist Anna Hazare shouts slogans while holding a candle in New Delhi on Tuesday. Mr. Hazare began fasting behind bars as his supporters held protests across the country, with thousands detained by police.
