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Iraq's elite counterterrorism forces gather ahead of an operation to re-take the Islamic State-held City of Mosul, outside Irbil, Iraq, Friday, Oct. 14, 2016. A few hundred Iraqi special forces arrived Friday at the front line near militant-held Mosul, one small part of a series of troop movements that have massed thousands of soldiers ahead of an operation seeking to retake the country’s second-largest city from the Islamic State group. (AP Photo/Khalid Mohammed)
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In this Sept. 11, 2016 photo, militiamen loyal to former Nineveh governor Atheel al-Nujaifi train at their camp near the northern Iraqi city of Mosul. Having received training from Turkish military advisers, hundreds of Nujaifi's mainly Sunni fighters are preparing to take part in the upcoming liberation of Mosul, the Islamic State's last urban stronghold in Iraq. (AP Photo/Balint Szlanko)
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Tribesmen loyal to Houthi rebels hold their weapons as they chant slogans during a gathering aimed at mobilizing more fighters into battlefronts in several Yemeni cities, in Sanaa, Yemen, on Oct. 2, 2016. (Associated Press) **FILE**
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UNESCO, the U.N. body that designates cultural treasures, ignored Israeli ties to the Temple Mount in favor of Palestinians, who refer to it as the Al-Aqsa Mwosque. (Associated Press)
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"Why can't they do it quietly and do the attack and make it a sneak attack, and after the attack is made inform the American public that we have knocked out the [Islamic State] leaders and have a tremendous success?" asked Donald Trump. (Associated Press)
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In this photo provided by International Rescue Committee, a mother and her son stand amid the ashes of their hut and personal possessions in the Kaga Bandoro refugee camp in Central African Republic, Thursday, Oct. 13, 2016. Fighters with the former Seleka rebel group attacked a northern town in Central African Republic overnight Wednesday, and clashes left at least 30 dead and 57 wounded as United Nations peacekeepers confronted them, the U.N. said. The attack in Kaga-Bandoro was likely retaliation for the death on Tuesday of a suspected former Seleka member, the peacekeeping mission said in a statement. Peacekeepers repelled the attackers, killing at least 12 of them, the U.N. mission said. (David Belluz/International Rescue Committee via AP)
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In this photo provided by International Rescue Committee, hundreds of refugees seek shelter in a hangar at the United Nations peacekeeping base in Kaga Bandoro refugee camp in Central African Republic, Thursday, Oct. 13, 2016. Fighters with the former Seleka rebel group attacked a northern town in Central African Republic overnight Wednesday, and clashes left at least 30 dead and 57 wounded as United Nations peacekeepers confronted them, the U.N. said. The attack in Kaga-Bandoro was likely retaliation for the death on Tuesday of a suspected former Seleka member, the peacekeeping mission said in a statement. Peacekeepers repelled the attackers, killing at least 12 of them, the U.N. mission said. (David Belluz/International Rescue Committee via AP)
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Lt. Gen. Sergei Rudskoi of the Russian military's General Staff speaks at a briefing at the Russian Defense Ministry's headquarters in Moscow, Russia, Thursday, Oct. 13, 2016. Rudskoi said that Russian warplanes in Syria haven't targeted populated areas and only struck militants's facilities near Aleppo. (AP Photo/Ivan Sekretarev)
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Police search for a suspect after a shooting in the East Boston neighborhood of Boston, Wednesday, Oct. 12, 2016. Police say two officers were shot late Wednesday night. Their conditions were not immediately available. It's unclear what led to the shooting. (AP Photo/Charles Krupa)
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Police search for a suspect after a shooting in the East Boston neighborhood of Boston, Wednesday, Oct. 12, 2016. Police say two officers were shot late Wednesday night. Their conditions were not immediately available. It's unclear what led to the shooting. (AP Photo/Charles Krupa)
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The heightened lawlessness culminated Monday with the arrests of 27 activists, including actress Shailene Woodley, on charges of criminal trespass and rioting as the hundreds swarmed a private construction site near St. Anthony, North Dakota. (Associated Press)
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Law enforcement officers have clashed with protesters trying to stop the Dakota Access Pipeline in North Dakota. An extreme faction within the protest encampment has been terrorizing the rural community. (Associated Press)
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Protesters sit on the street after clashing with Portland police outside City Hall in Portland, Ore., Wednesday, Oct. 12, 2016. The Portland City Council approved a new police contract in a conference room that was blocked off from the general public because of protests that led to arrests. (Brad Schmidt/The Oregonian via AP)
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This photo released Monday, Oct. 3, 2016, by the website of Fath al-Sham, an anti-government militant group, shows a militant from the Fath al-Sham group shooting during clashes with Syrian army soldiers in the Hama countryside, Syria. Infighting among some insurgent groups in Syria is severely hampering an offensive that many activists had hoped would cut government supply lines to Aleppo and ease the pressure on that embattled northern city. Arabic reads, "Clashes between the Mujahideen and the Alawite army before liberating the check points." (The website of Fath al-Sham via AP) ** FILE **
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For the second time this week, two missiles were fired at the USS Mason in the Red Sea, and officials believe they were launched by the same Yemen-based Houthi rebels involved in the earlier attack, a U.S. military official said Wednesday. (U.S. Navy via Associated Press)
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In the latest move in an extraordinary battle at the Pentagon, the defense filed an appeal saying the Navy's two highest-ranking lawyers committed unlawful command influence. (Associated Press/File)
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Celebratory cookies honoring the Iowa Cookie Crumbs organization's millionth cookie baked and packaged to send to U.S. military personnel deployed overseas sit for volunteers at Emanuel Lutheran Church in Council Bluffs, Iowa, after the group boxed up thousands of cookies on Tuesday, Oct. 12, 2016. (Joe Shearer/Daily Nonpareil via AP)
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FILE - In this July 25, 2016 file photo, French president Francois Hollande reviews troops at the army base and command centre for France's anti-terror 'Vigipirate' plan, dubbed 'Operation Sentinelle', in Vincennes, outside Paris. France's government has approved Wednesday Oct. 12, 2016 a decree creating a National Guard to bolster security against extremist attacks across the country. The Guard, which is expected to reach 84,000 people by 2018, is a new, enhanced version of the existing reserve forces. (Ian Langsdon/Pool Photo via AP, File)
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In this March 1, 2013, file photo, anti-Syrian President Bashar Assad protesters hold the Jabhat al-Nusra flag, as they shout slogans during a demonstration, at Kafranbel town, in Idlib province, northern Syria. Insurgent groups like Hezbollah and the Islamic State group in Syria have learned how to weaponize surveillance drones and use them against each other, adding a new twist to the country’s civil war, a U.S. military official and others say. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla, File)
