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In this Wednesday, Feb. 1, 2017 photo, Nineveh police forces train with Spanish coalition members at Basmaya base 40 kilometers southeast of Baghdad, Iraq. The U.S.-led coalition is planning for the day Iraq will be free of the Islamic State group, ramping up the training of a future Mosul police force -- even as the battle for the city is temporarily on hold. The security forces are expected to move into villages of Ninevah province around Mosul and into parts of the city recently retaken from IS. The Iraqi military declared Mosul’s eastern half “fully liberated” in January and is now preparing to battle for the city’s western sector. (AP Photo/Karim Kadim)
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In this Jan. 31, 2017 photo, Shelly Callahan, executive director of the Mohawk Valley Resource Center for Refugees, poses for a photograph at the center, in Utica, N.Y. The upstate New York city, that has gained new life from refugees, is looking at a sharp decrease in arrivals under President Donald Trump’s executive order restricting refugees and travel from Muslim countries. (AP Photo/Hans Pennink)
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In this Jan. 31, 2017 photo, Palestinian refugee Manal Alawsaj, who was born in Iraq, speaks about her life and path to U.S. citizenship at the Mohawk Valley Resource Center for Refugees, in Utica, N.Y. The upstate New York city, that has gained new life from refugees, is looking at a sharp decrease in arrivals under President Donald Trump’s executive order restricting refugees and travel from Muslim countries. (AP Photo/Hans Pennink)
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In this Jan. 31, 2017 photo, Palestinian refugee Manal Alawsaj, who was born in Iraq, works at making welcome posters at the Mohawk Valley Resource Center for Refugees in Utica, N.Y. The upstate New York city, that has gained new life from refugees, is looking at a sharp decrease in arrivals under President Donald Trump’s executive order restricting refugees and travel from Muslim countries. (AP Photo/Hans Pennink)
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In this Jan. 31, 2017 photo, Bosnian refugee Hana Selimovic, a volunteer at the Mohawk Valley Resource Center for Refugees in Utica, N.Y., talks about the refugee-owned businesses in the town, while working at the refugee center. Utica has been a refugee "oasis" for decades. Vietnamese, Bosnians, Somalians and Burmese have each found shelter in the city that has benefited from the infusion of house-proud residents who work in hospitals, factories and their own businesses. But now President Donald Trump's executive order crimping the flow of refugees has sent a shudder through the city. (AP Photo/Hans Pennink)
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In this Jan. 31, 2017 photo, vehicles move along Genesee Street in the early morning after a fresh snowfall, in Utica, N.Y. The upstate New York city, that has gained new life from refugees, is looking at a sharp decrease in arrivals under President Donald Trump’s executive order restricting refugees and travel from Muslim countries. (AP Photo/Hans Pennink)
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Iranian dissidents have documented work at 42 missile centers operated by the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, the regime's dominant security force. A dozen of those sites had never been disclosed before. (Associated Press/File)
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From left, Philip Watson, a rights advocate with the Firearms Policy Coalition, Ralph Myers, of Bellingham, Wash., who lost his son to gun violence, and Marty Hayes, director of the Firearms Academy of Seattle, get up after testifying in front of the House Judiciary Committee, Thursday, Feb. 2, 2017, at the Capitol in Olympia, Wash. The three spoke in opposition to a proposed bill that would enforce safe gun storage in homes where firearms are present. (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren)
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File - In this May 16, 1969 file photo, a lone demonstrator stays behind to argue with the National Guard troops who moved in to help California Highway patrolmen break up an unauthorized rally on the University of California campus in Berkeley, Calif. The University of California, Berkeley has become a campus renowned for peace and openness where all viewpoints are welcome. It was anything but that on Wednesday night when violence and rioting forced the cancellation of a talk by right-wing provocateur Milo Yiannopoulos. A spokesman for the campus said it was "not a proud night" for the birthplace of the Free Speech Movement. (AP Photo, File)
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Samira Rahimi holds her brother, Bashir Ahmad Rahimi, left, after arriving from Afghanistan Wednesday, Feb 1, 2017, in Omaha, Neb. The family became the last refugees to land in Omaha before President Donald Trump's executive order freezing all refugee resettlements took full effect (Megan Farmer/Omaha World-Herald via AP)
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Mohammad Mobin smiles while holding his nephew, Bashir Ahmad Rahimi, after greeting his sister's family that arrived from Afghanistan Wednesday, Feb 1, 2017, in Omaha, Neb. The family became the last refugees to land in Omaha before President Donald Trump's executive order freezing all refugee resettlements took full effect. (Megan Farmer/Omaha World-Herald via AP)
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FILE - In this Sept. 21, 2001, file photo, men shave, brush their teeth and prepare for the day at a refugee camp on the Island of Nauru. Australia's Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull insisted Thursday, Feb. 2, 2017, that a deal struck with the Obama administration that would allow mostly Muslim refugees rejected by Australia to be resettled in the United States was still on, despite President Donald Trump dubbing the agreement "dumb" and vowing to review it. (AP Photo/Rick Rycroft, File)
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In this Wednesday, Feb. 1, 2017, aerial image taken from a video by KXMB in Bismarck, N.D., law enforcement officers line up against protesters during the eviction of about 40 Dakota Access pipeline opponents from a camp on private property owned by the pipeline developer where the protesters set up on higher ground near their flood-prone main camp in southern North Dakota near Cannon Ball, N.D. Maj. Gen. Malcolm Frost says the Army is following the steps outlined in President Donald Trump's order earlier this month for a fast review of requests to approve the pipeline. (KXMB via AP)
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In this Wednesday, Feb. 1, 2017, aerial image taken from a video by KXMB in Bismarck, N.D., law enforcement officers line up against protesters during the eviction of about 40 Dakota Access pipeline opponents from a camp on private property owned by the pipeline developer where the protesters set up on higher ground near their flood-prone main camp in southern North Dakota near Cannon Ball, N.D. Maj. Gen. Malcolm Frost says the Army is following the steps outlined in President Donald Trump's order earlier this month for a fast review of requests to approve the pipeline. (KXMB via AP)
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FILE - In this Friday Aug. 20, 2010 file photo, Dame Vera Lynn attends a ceremony to mark the 70th anniversary of the Battle of Britain. in central London. Singer Vera Lynn is making plans to mark her 100th birthday with the release of a new album featuring many of her (very) old classics. The songstress said Thursday Feb. 2, 2017, it’s “truly humbling that people still enjoy these songs from so many years ago.” (AP Photo/Lefteris Pitarakis, File)
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In this photo taken Friday, Jan. 20, 2017, wheelchair basketball coach Jess Markt from Colorado, right, greets a player at a tournament in Juba, South Sudan. Warnings of possible genocide hang over the world's youngest nation, but here on a basketball court under a fierce morning sun, South Sudan's civil war seems like another country. (AP Photo/Bullen Chol)
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In this photo taken Friday, Jan. 20, 2017, wheelchair basketball coach Jess Markt from Colorado, left, chats with a player during a tournament in Juba, South Sudan. Warnings of possible genocide hang over the world's youngest nation, but here on a basketball court under a fierce morning sun, South Sudan's civil war seems like another country. (AP Photo/Bullen Chol)
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In this photo taken Friday, Jan. 20, 2017, a wheelchair basketball player jumps with his one leg to celebrate his team's win, at a tournament following a two-week training session run by coach Jess Markt from Colorado, in Juba, South Sudan. Warnings of possible genocide hang over the world's youngest nation, but here on a basketball court under a fierce morning sun, South Sudan's civil war seems like another country. (AP Photo/Bullen Chol)
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In this photo taken Friday, Jan. 20, 2017, a wheelchair basketball player tries to score a basket at a tournament following a two-week training session run by coach Jess Markt from Colorado, in Juba, South Sudan. Warnings of possible genocide hang over the world's youngest nation, but here on a basketball court under a fierce morning sun, South Sudan's civil war seems like another country. (AP Photo/Bullen Chol)
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In this photo taken Friday, Jan. 20, 2017, wheelchair basketball players practice before a tournament following a two-week training session run by coach Jess Markt from Colorado, in Juba, South Sudan. Warnings of possible genocide hang over the world's youngest nation, but here on a basketball court under a fierce morning sun, South Sudan's civil war seems like another country. (AP Photo/Bullen Chol)
