War_Conflict

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Illustration on the Israeli/Palestinian conflict by M. Ryder/Tribune Content Agency

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Iraqi forces are deployed during an offensive to retake Mosul from Islamic State militants outside Mosul, Iraq, Tuesday, Oct. 18, 2016. The pace of operations slowed on Tuesday as Iraqi forces began pushing toward larger villages and encountering civilian populations on the second day of a massive operation to retake the northern Iraqi city of Mosul from the Islamic State group. (AP Photo)

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This photo taken on Sunday, Oct. 16, 2016 and released on Tuesday, Oct. 18, 2016 by the French Army Communications Audiovisual office (ECPAD) shows a French army Rafale fighter jet taking off from an undisclosed military air base. Seven French Rafale jets, from the Air Force and the Navy, carried out airstrikes south of Mosul overnight Oct. 15-16 with SCALP missiles that destroyed a factory making IEDs (improvised explosive devices). (ECPAD via AP)

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FILE - In this Aug. 1, 1966, file photo, smoke rises from the sniper's gun as he fired from the tower of the University of Texas administration building in Austin, Texas, on crowds below. Police identified the slayer as Charles Whitman, a student at the university. The new documentary "Tower" about the shooting spree captures a sense of terror and confusion that was unprecedented then as it has become chilling commonplace today. (AP Photo/File)

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This image released by Electronic Arts shows a scene from "Battlefield 1." (Electronic Arts via AP)

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In this photo taken Sunday, Oct. 16, 2016, a group of South Sudanese government soldiers sit on the back of a pickup truck before visiting the scene of a recent battle in Malakal, South Sudan. Following clashes last week in the outskirts of the city, which has been reduced to rubble and almost entirely deserted by civilians, the army flew in journalists on Sunday to show that they retain control of the strategic city, even though rebels still vow to take it. (AP Photo/Justin Lynch)

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A peshmerga convoy drives toward Mosul on Monday as the Iraqi military and Kurdish forces launched operations to wrest control of the city from the Islamic State group. (Associated Press)

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Kurdish security forces take position overlooking the Islamic State-controlled villages surrounding Mosul on Monday, the beginning of what Pentagon officials say could be a drawn-out operation to liberate Iraq's second-largest city from Islamic State control. (Associated Press)

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Police officers line up as a protest grows outside the Morton County Courthouse in Mandan, N.D., Monday, Oct. 17, 2016. A judge dismissed a complaint Monday against Democracy Now journalist Amy Goodman, who reported on a clash between pipeline protesters and private security in September. (Mike McCleary/The Bismarck Tribune via AP)

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Smoke rises from Islamic state positions after an airstrike by coalition forces in Mosul, Iraq, Monday, Oct. 17, 2016. Iraqi government and Kurdish forces, backed by U.S.-led coalition air and ground support, launched coordinated military operations early on Monday as the long-awaited fight to wrest the northern city of Mosul from Islamic State fighters got underway.(AP Photo/Khalid Mohammed)

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In this Thursday, Oct. 13, 2016 photo, Khaled Almilaji, who coordinated a campaign that vaccinated 1.4 million Syrian children and risked his life to provide medical care during the country's civil war, stands for a portrait on the campus of Brown University in Providence, R.I. Almilaji is now in the Ivy League, learning about how to rebuild Syria's health system when the war finally ends. (AP Photo/Steven Senne)

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In this Thursday, Oct. 13, 2016 photo, Khaled Almilaji, who coordinated a campaign that vaccinated 1.4 million Syrian children and risked his life to provide medical care during the country's civil war, stands for a portrait on the campus of Brown University in Providence, R.I. Almilaji is now in the Ivy League, learning about how to rebuild Syria's health system when the war finally ends. (AP Photo/Steven Senne)

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FILE - In this June 17, 2014, file photo, FBI Director James Comey addresses a news conference at the FBI Minneapolis field office in Brooklyn Center, Minn. Dramatic videos of deadly law enforcement encounters and the absence of reliable data about how often police use force contribute to a regrettable narrative that "biased police are killing black men at epidemic rates," Comey said Sunday, Oct. 16, 2016. (AP Photo/Jim Mone)

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An image from video provided by the Fairbanks Police Department shows shows the suspect police believe abandoned a police car he stole after he shot an officer in Fairbanks, Ak., early Sunday, Oct. 16, 2016. An Alaska police officer was seriously injured in the early morning shooting, according to the Fairbanks police department. The Fairbanks News-Miner reports the officer was flown to Anchorage for treatment. Police are still searching for the shooter. (Fairbanks Police Department via AP)

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In this Saturday, Oct. 15, 2016 photo, dentist Steve Seigars from Greenfield, N.H. gets ready to catapult a pumpkin from his contraption "Yankee Siege II" during a pumping launching contest at New Hampshire Motor Speeday in Loudon, N.H. Seaigars is an 8-time world champion pumpkin launcher sending pumpkins more than a half mile. (AP Photo/Jim Cole)

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In this photo taken Oct. 7, 2016, Sandy Aponte poses for a photo in Puyallup, Wash., in front of pictures of her son, Eddie Holmes, who was killed in 2014 in an accidental shooting while he and some friends were examining a shotgun that belonged to a friend's step-parent. Holmes was one of more than a dozen Washington state children who have been injured or killed since 2014 when they or another child mishandled an unsecured firearm, according to an investigation by The Associated Press. (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren)

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A group of historical re-enactors arrive in Battle, near Hastings, England, Friday Oct. 14, 2016, ending their 300-mile cross-country journey ready to mark the Battle of Hastings which was originaly fought 950-years ago. The band of re-enactor enthusiasts set out from York, central England, on foot and horseback to simulate the journey by King Harold before the battle in 1066, when Normans under William the Conqueror defeated the English at the Battle of Hastings. (Tom Pugh / PA via AP)

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Re-enactors gather in Battle, near Hastings to re-enact the ancient clash between King Harold and William the Conqueror on the 950th anniversary of the fabled Battle of Hastings, Saturday Oct. 15, 2016. Some thousands of history buffs including many in full costume marked the 1066 Battle of Hastings with a dramatic reenactment that commemorates one of the most important events in British history. (Angus Dunsire / PA via AP)

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Acting U.S. Attorney Tom Beall announced Friday, Oct. 14, 2016, a major federal investigation stopped a domestic terrorism plot by a militia group to detonate a bomb at a Garden City apartment complex where a number of Somalis live. Two Liberal men and a Dodge City resident were arrested and charged in federal court with domestic terrorism charges, (Bo Rader/The Wichita Eagle via AP)

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An Iraqi special forces soldier clutches his weapon as he prepares for an offensive to retake Mosul from Islamic State militants at a camp near Khazer, Iraq, on Friday, Oct. 14, 2016. The US-led coalition says they are increasing airstrikes in and around the militant-held city of Mosul as Iraqi ground forces are building up ahead of a planned operation to retake the city. (AP Photo/Adam Schreck)