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Iraqi special forces fight against Islamic State militants to regain control of Mosul University, in the eastern side of Mosul, Iraq, Saturday, Jan. 14, 2017. (AP Photo/ Khalid Mohammed)
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This photo provided by Bellevue, Wash., Fire Department shows damage to the Islamic Center of the Eastside after a fire in Bellevue, Wash., on Saturday, Jan. 14, 2017. Police say a man is in custody after a suspicious fire severely damaged the mosque overnight. Authorities say that as firefighters doused the flames, police found a 37-year-old man near the building and arrested him for investigation of arson. Police spokesman Seth Tyler says investigators believe the man is the sole suspect. His name was not immediately released. The mosque was unoccupied at the time and no injuries were reported. (Bellevue, Wash., Fire Department via AP)
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This photo provided by Bellevue, Wash., Fire Department, a fire burns at the Islamic Center of the Eastside in Bellevue, Wash., on Saturday, Jan. 14, 2017. Police say a man is in custody after a suspicious fire severely damaged the mosque overnight. Authorities say that as firefighters doused the flames, police found a 37-year-old man near the building and arrested him for investigation of arson. Police spokesman Seth Tyler says investigators believe the man is the sole suspect. His name was not immediately released. The mosque was unoccupied at the time and no injuries were reported. (Bellevue, Wash., Fire Department via AP)
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FILE - In this April 22, 2016, file photo, actor Leonardo Di Caprio, a United Nations Messenger of Peace, speaks at the signing ceremony for the Paris Agreement on climate change at U.N. headquarters. DiCaprio's foundation is chipping in to support a new national monument in southern Utah that's been a flashpoint over public land use in the West. His environmental group is one of several donating to create the $1.5 million Bears Ears Community Engagement Fund, which is aimed at supporting local efforts to preserve natural resources and protect the park’s trove of ancient archaeological sites from things like looting. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan, File)
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FILE - In this Nov. 15, 2016 file photo, students line up outside a classroom with a map of Africa on its wall, in Yei, in southern South Sudan. The Obama administration is set to ease sanctions against Sudan and broaden now limited talks with the long estranged African government, a U.S.-designated terrorism sponsor whose leader has been indicted on war crimes charges, The Associated Press learned Thursday, Jan. 12, 2017. (AP Photo/Justin Lynch, File)
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This image made from video shows the aftermath of an Israeli airstrike near a military airport west of Damascus, Syria on Friday, Jan. 13, 2016. Syria says Israel has launched missiles that hit near a military airport west of Damascus, triggering a fire. In a statement carried on the official news agency SANA, the military says the missiles were launched early on Friday and fell in the vicinity of the Mezzeh military airport. (Yomyat Kzefeh Hawen fi Dimashq via AP)
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Three Turkish military officers in suits wearing handcuffs, escorted by Greek police officers, arrive at the Supreme Court in Athens Friday, Jan. 13, 2017. A prosecutor at Greece's highest court recommended Tuesday and Wednesday the court reject an extradition request for four other Turkish servicemen, who fled to Greece after a failed July military coup in their country. (AP Photo/Thanassis Stavrakis)
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FILE - In this Feb. 3. 2014, Kim Gun-ja, 89, former comfort woman who was forced to serve for the Japanese troops as a sex slave during World War II, passes by her wedding picture, top center, at the House of Sharing, a nursing home and museum for 10 former sex slaves, in Toechon, South Korea. ‘Comfort women” were present wherever the Japanese Imperial Army invaded and occupied in Asia from the early 1930s through the end of World War II. That aspect of wartime history was kept quiet until the early 1990s, when a South Korean woman came forward, joined by some others, seeking Japanese help and accountability. (AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon, File)
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FILE - In this Wednesday, April, 29, 2015, file photo, a former comfort woman Kil Un-ock, who was forced to serve for the Japanese troops as a sexual slave during World War II, attends a rally against a visit by Japanese Prime Minster Shinzo Abe to the United States, in front of the Japanese Embassy in Seoul, South Korea. ‘Comfort women” were present wherever the Japanese Imperial Army invaded and occupied in Asia from the early 1930s through the end of World War II. That aspect of wartime history was kept quiet until the early 1990s, when a South Korean woman came forward, joined by some others, seeking Japanese help and accountability. The letters at a card read " Oppose the alliance between U.S. and Japan." (AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon, File)
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FILE - In this Feb. 3. 2014, file photo, a visitor looks at portraits of late former "comfort women" who were forced to serve for the Japanese troops as a sexual slave during World War II, at the House of Sharing, a nursing home and museum for 10 former sex slaves, in Toechon, South Korea. ‘Comfort women” were present wherever the Japanese Imperial Army invaded and occupied in Asia from the early 1930s through the end of World War II. That aspect of wartime history was kept quiet until the early 1990s, when a South Korean woman came forward, joined by some others, seeking Japanese help and accountability. (AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon, File)
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People inspect a bridge destroyed by Islamic State militants in a neighborhood recently liberated from Islamic State on the eastern side of Mosul, Iraq, Thursday, Jan. 12, 2017. Small stalls and carts have sprung up outside the bombed-out restaurants and cafes in eastern Mosul, selling fresh vegetables, cigarettes and cellphones to the thousands of civilians still living in neighborhoods where the Iraqi military has driven out the extremists of the Islamic State group.(AP Photo/ Khalid Mohammed)
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FILE- This Feb. 1, 2013 file photo, shows the Birmingham Civil Rights Institute in Birmingham, Ala. President Barack Obama signed an order Thursday, Jan. 12, 2017, designating an historic civil rights district in Birmingham as a national monument. The Birmingham Civil Rights National Monument will include the now-abandoned A.G. Gaston Motel, where the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. planned weeks of demonstrations against segregation in the spring of 1963; the park where black protesters were met by police dogs and fire hoses; the 16th Street Baptist Church, where four black girls died in a Ku Klux Klan bombing that year; and the Birmingham Civil Rights Institute. (Tamika Moore/AL.com via AP, File)
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A migrant sits on a chair outside a tent at the snow-covered refugee camp of Vagiohori village, about 45 kilometers (28 miles) east of the Greek city of Thessaloniki, Thursday, Jan. 12, 2017. The European Commission said conditions for refugees on islands and other camps where they are housed in tents despite severe cold weather, is "untenable. (AP Photo/Giannis Papanikos)
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FILE - This image made from an AP video posted on Wednesday, Sept. 18, 2013 shows shows Syrians in protective suits and gas masks conducting a drill on how to treat casualties of a chemical weapons attack in Aleppo, Syria. The Islamic State group is aggressively pursuing development of chemical weapons, setting up a branch dedicated to research and experiments with the help of scientists from Iraq, Syria and elsewhere in the region, according to Iraqi and U.S. intelligence officials. (AP Photo via AP video, File)
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A Syrian refugee man clears the snow around his shelter at the refugee camp of Ritsona about 86 kilometers (53 miles) north of Athens, Wednesday, Jan. 11, 2017. The European Commission said conditions for refugees on islands and other camps where they are housed in tents despite severe cold weather, is "untenable." (AP Photo/Muhammed Muheisen)
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The official welcome ceremony for the US troops convoy in Zagan, Poland, Thursday, Jan. 12, 2017. First U.S. troops arrived at the Zagan base in western Poland as part of deterrence force of some 1,000 troops to be based here and reassure Poland that is worried about Russia's activity. (AP Photo/Czarek Sokolowski)
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The official welcome ceremony for the US troops convoy in Zagan, Poland, Thursday, Jan. 12, 2017. First U.S. troops arrived at the Zagan base in western Poland as part of deterrence force of some 1,000 troops to be based here and reassure Poland that is worried about Russia's activity. (AP Photo/Czarek Sokolowski)
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U.S. Army soldiers are welcomed in Zagan, Poland, Thursday, Jan. 12, 2017. First U.S. troops arrived at the Zagan base in western Poland as part of deterrence force of some 1,000 troops to be based here and reassure Poland that is worried about Russia's activity.(AP Photo/Czarek Sokolowski)
