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Smoke rises outside an airfield used by Afghan and international forces in Jalalabad, east of Kabul, Afghanistan, Wednesday, June 30, 2010. Militants set off a car bomb and stormed the entrance to the airport and eight insurgents died in the ensuing gunbattle, authorities said. (AP Photo)
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GLASS HALF FULL: Optimism is high that Army Gen. David H. Petraeus will be confirmed in the next few days as commander of allied forces in Afghanistan. (Associated Press)
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** FILE ** Gen. David Petraeus testifies on Capitol Hill in Washington on Tuesday, June 29, 2010, before the Senate Armed Services Committee hearing to be confirmed as President Obama's choice to take control of forces in Afghanistan. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)
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Gen. David Petraeus testifies on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, June 29, 2010, before the Senate Armed Services Committee hearing to be confirmed as President Obama's choice to take control of forces in Afghanistan. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)
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Kyrgyz soldiers receive their ballot papers at a polling station as early voting is held for Sunday's referendum in the southern Kyrgyz city of Osh, Kyrgyzstan, Friday, June 25, 2010. Kyrgyz authorities say they have arrested a nephew of deposed President Kurmanbek Bakiyev whom they accuse of playing a key role in organizing the ethnic rioting that killed hundreds of people. This month's unrest tore apart the Central Asian nation's south, with Kyrgyz rampaging through Uzbek neighborhoods. As many as 400,000 people fled their homes.(AP Photo/Sergei Grits)
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Ethnic Uzbek and Kyrgyz citizens pray together during Friday prayers at a mosque in the Uzbek ethnic neighborhood in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan, Friday, June 25, 2010. Kyrgyz authorities said Friday they have arrested a nephew of deposed President Kurmanbek Bakiyev and charged him with helping organize the ethnic rioting that tore apart this Central Asian nation's south. Hundreds of people were killed and as many as 400,000 driven from their homes this month when Kyrgyz mobs rampaged through Uzbek neighborhoods in and around the cities of Osh and Jalal-Abad. (AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko)
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Kyrgyz soldiers receive their ballot papers at a polling station as early voting is held for Sunday's referendum in the southern Kyrgyz city of Osh, Kyrgyzstan, Friday, June 25, 2010. Kyrgyz authorities say they have arrested a nephew of deposed President Kurmanbek Bakiyev whom they accuse of playing a key role in organizing the ethnic rioting that killed hundreds of people. This month's unrest tore apart the Central Asian nation's south, with Kyrgyz rampaging through Uzbek neighborhoods. As many as 400,000 people fled their homes.(AP Photo/Sergei Grits)
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Kyrgyz soldiers receive their ballot papers at a polling station as early voting is held for Sunday's referendum in the southern Kyrgyz city of Osh, Kyrgyzstan, Friday, June 25, 2010. Kyrgyz authorities say they have arrested a nephew of deposed President Kurmanbek Bakiyev whom they accuse of playing a key role in organizing the ethnic rioting that killed hundreds of people. This month's unrest tore apart the Central Asian nation's south, with Kyrgyz rampaging through Uzbek neighborhoods. As many as 400,000 people fled their homes.(AP Photo/Sergei Grits)
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Deputy National Security Adviser for Homeland Security and Counterterrorism John O. Brennan says of U.S.-born recruits to terrorist groups: "There are, in my mind, dozens of U.S. persons who are in different parts of the world, and they are very concerning to us." J.M. EDDINS JR./THE WASHINGTON TIMES
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China is said to be concerned that the Islamic State is moving into western China, specifically Xinjiang province, where Muslim Uighurs in the past have joined Islamist terrorist groups. (Associated Press/File)
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A burned out police jeep lies on a road as a reminder of the local people's protests against "land grab" for building factories in Nandigram, India. (Sujoy Dhar/Special to The Washington Times)
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U.S. veterans who fought in the Korean War salute during a ceremony to mark the 60th anniversary of the Korean War at the Imjingak Pavilion in Paju near the border village of Panmunjom, the demilitarized zone that separates the two Koreas since the Korean War, north of Seoul, South Korea, on Thursday, June 24, 2010. The United States and 15 other countries fought alongside South Korea under the U.N. flag against North Korean and Chinese troops. (AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon)
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Foreign Korean War veterans and their family members look at a map of the two Koreas' borderland on the eve of the 60th anniversary of the Korean War at an observation post in Paju near the border village of Panmunjom, the demilitarized zone that separates the two Koreas since the Korean War, north of Seoul, South Korea, on Thursday, June 24, 2010. During the war, the United States and 15 other countries fought alongside South Korea under the U.N. flag against North Korean and Chinese troops. (AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon)
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New Zealand Korean War veteran James Arthur Newman, right, pins a badge on Ethiopian Korean War veteran Habtemichael Genet on the eve of the 60th anniversary of the Korean War at an observation post in Paju near the border village of Panmunjom, the demilitarized zone that separates the two Koreas since the Korean War, north of Seoul, South Korea, on Thursday, June 24, 2010. The United States and 15 other countries fought alongside South Korea under the U.N. flag against North Korean and Chinese troops during the Korean War. (AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon)
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Robert James Cummiskey from Chesterfield, Missouri, a U.S. veteran who fought in the Korean War, right, carries a wreath of flowers with South Korean Army soldiers during a ceremony to mark the 60th anniversary of the Korean War at the Imjingak Pavilion in Paju near the border village of Panmunjom, the demilitarized zone that separates the two Koreas since the Korean War, north of Seoul, South Korea, on Thursday, June 24, 2010. During the war, the United States and 15 other countries fought alongside South Korea under the U.N. flag against North Korean and Chinese troops. (AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon)
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In a file photo, detained American Muslims, center, are escorted by Pakistan police officers as they leave after appear in an anti terrorist court in Sargodha, Pakistan, Monday, Jan. 4, 2010. The five American men were convicted Thursday on terror charges by a Pakistan court and sentenced to 15 years in prison each, a prosecutor said. (AP Photo/K.M. Chaudary)
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U.S. President Barack Obama makes remarks on the resignation of Army General Stanley McChrystal, the commander of U.S. troops in Afghanistan, while Army General David Petraeus listens at right, in the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington, D.C., U.S., on Wednesday, June 23, 2010. Obama said McChrystal will be replaced by Petraeus, commander of U.S. forces in the Middle East and Central Asia and the architect of the counterinsurgency strategy the U.S. is pursuing in Afghanistan. Photographer: Chris Kleponis/Bloomberg
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** FILE ** In this Jan. 20, 2010, file photo, Gen. Stanley McChrystal, then-commander of the International Security Assistance Forces (ISAF) and commander of United States Forces in Afghanistan arrives to attend at the 13th Joint Coordination and Monitoring Board (JCMB) Meeting in Kabul, Afghanistan. (AP Photo/Musadeq Sadeq, File)
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British Prime Minister David Cameron confers by phone with President Obama. Mr. Cameron announced on Wednesday that British Lt. Gen. Nick Parker would temporarily assume Gen. McChrystal's role as commander of NATO forces in Afghanistan. (Bloomberg)
