War_Conflict

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While survivors and national security figures have suspicions about Saudi involvement in the 9/11 attacks, some in the Arab world point to U.S. interventions around the world. (Associated Press)

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Illustration on the obstacles to peace in Colombia by Linas Garsys/The Washington Times

FILE - In this Oct. 2, 2016 file photo, 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. The U.S. is weighing what military response it should take against Yemen-based Houthi rebels, who U.S. officials say launched two missiles at American warships in the Red Sea on Sunday, the Pentagon said Tuesday, Oct. 11, 2016. (AP Photo/Hani Mohammed, File)

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In an April 18, 2016 photo, Omar Pouncy, 28, works in his office as the chief of appeals with his lawyer David L. Moffitt, at his law office in Bingham Farms, Mich. Pouncy, a Michigan inmate who was released in March after 10 years in prison when a federal judge found he had been wrongfully convicted of carjacking, armed robbery and other charges is back behind bars. Pouncy was booked Sept. 23 on a charge of being a felon in possession of a firearm. (Kimberly P. Mitchell/Detroit Free Press via AP)

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Mother, centre left, and some other family members attend a funeral ceremony for army officer Lt. Murat Taylan Oncel, 33, killed in a mortar attack Monday by Kurdish militants in Silvan, Diyarbakir, Turkey at the Kocatepe Mosque in Ankara, Tuesday, Oct. 11, 2016. Kurdish militants detonated a car bomb Sunday outside a military checkpoint in southeast Turkey, killing ten soldiers and eight civilians, Turkish Prime Minister Binali Yildirim said.(AP Photo/Burhan Ozbilici) ** FILE **

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FILE -- In this June 18, 2015 file photo U.S. Army Black Hawk helicopters support soldiers during the NATO Noble Jump exercise on a training range near Swietoszow Zagan, Poland. Polish leaders say the country is buying Polish-made Black Hawk helicopters as it modernizes the army. The announcement comes days after Poland scrapped plans to buy 50 French-made military helicopters from Airbus Helicopters for 3.14 billion euros (US dollar 3.5 billion). (AP Photo/Alik Keplicz, file)

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Youths play football at Meskel Square in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia Monday, Oct. 10, 2016. Ethiopia's government on Monday blamed Egypt for supporting outlawed rebels and forcing the declaration of the country's first state of emergency in a quarter-century as widespread anti-government protests continue, though Egypt last week denied any support for the Ethiopian rebels. (AP Photo/Mulugeta Ayene)

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Hundreds of protesters in green fatigues gather outside the Chinese Ministry of National Defense to protest in Beijing, China, Tuesday, Oct. 11, 2016. China's military is undergoing a large-scale modernization and cutting hundreds of thousands of soldiers from the ranks. More than 1,000 protesters walked and chanted Tuesday, the latest apparent demonstration by soldiers during a wide-ranging campaign to modernize and downsize the military. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan)

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In this Sept. 24, 2016 photo, Downs, Ill., based Civil War re-enactors of Company D, 21st Illinois Infantry Regiment, march during a drill demonstration as a part of Grant Days in Mattoon, Ill. Their re-enactments vary in size and scope. There can be about seven to 10 guys portraying an encampment, or, there can be a group of over 18 representing a unit in a battle re-enactment. at the Civil War Memorial Ellipse and Camp Grant Municipal Park. (Jarad Jarmon/Journal Gazette via AP)

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FILE - In this Friday, April 4, 2014 file photo, the skulls and bones of some of those who were slaughtered as they sought refuge inside the church are laid out as a memorial to the thousands who were killed in and around the Catholic church during the 1994 genocide in Ntarama, Rwanda. Rwandan President Paul Kagame on Monday, Oct. 10, 2016 criticized French investigators who last week reopened an inquiry into the plane crash that sparked the 1994 genocide in which more than 800,000 people were killed. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis, File)

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Smoke rises from a damaged government building where suspected militants have taken refuge during a gun battle in Pampore, on the outskirts of Srinagar, Indian controlled Kashmir, Monday, Oct. 10, 2016. On Monday, government forces were battling a group of suspected rebels near a highway running by saffron-rich Pampore town, on the outskirts of the region's main city of Srinagar. (AP Photo/Mukhtar Khan)

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Smoke and dust rise from a government building where suspected militants have taken refuge during a gun battle in Pampore, on the outskirts of Srinagar, Indian controlled Kashmir, Monday, Oct. 10, 2016. On Monday, government forces were battling a group of suspected rebels near a highway running by saffron-rich Pampore town, on the outskirts of the region's main city of Srinagar. (AP Photo/Mukhtar Khan)

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Indian army soldiers cordon off the area near the government building where suspected militants have taken refuge during a gun-battle in Pampore, on the outskirts of Srinagar, Indian controlled Kashmir, Monday, Oct. 10, 2016. Government forces were battling a group of suspected rebels inside a government compound on Monday in the Indian-controlled portion of Kashmir. (AP Photo/Mukhtar Khan)

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Indian paramilitary soldiers stand guard at an temporary checkpoint during curfew in Srinagar, Indian-controlled Kashmir, Monday, Oct. 10, 2016. Authorities in Indian portion of Kashmiri imposed restrictions in some parts of Srinagar fearing religious processions marking the Muslim month of Muharram would turn into anti-India protests. (AP Photo/Dar Yasin)

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In this Saturday, March 12, 2011, file photo, U.S. destroyer USS Mason sails in the Suez canal in Ismailia, Egypt. Two missiles fired from rebel-held territory in Yemen landed near an American destroyer passing by in the Red Sea, the U.S. Navy said on Monday, Oct. 10, 2016. (AP Photo/File)

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This photo provided by by the Charleston County Sheriff's Office shows Civil War-era cannonballs found Sunday, Oct. 9, 2016, on a beach in Folly Beach, S.C. The County Sheriff's Office bomb squad was called to Folly Beach on Sunday after Civil War-era cannonballs were found on shore, washed up by Hurricane Matthew, Maj. Eric Watson said. (Charleston County Sheriff's Office via AP)

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In this Oct. 4, 2016 photo, U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry pauses, during a speech at an event hosted by The German Marshall Fund (GMF) and the U.S. Mission to the EU at Concert Noble in Brussels. Kerry called Friday for Russia and Syria to face a war crimes investigation for their attacks on Syrian civilians, further illustrating the downward spiral in relations between Washington and Moscow. (AP Photo/Geert Vanden Wijngaert)

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Despite harrowing scenes of violence in Aleppo and beyond, President Obama is unlikely to approve any risky strategy before handing the Syrian civil war over to his successor early next year. (Associated Press)

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Smokes rise after Kurdish militants detonated a car bomb outside a military station in Semdinli near the border with Iraq, Turkey, Sunday, Oct. 9, 2016. The Anadolu Agency, citing a statement by the Turkish Armed Forces, said the attack outside a Gendarmerie station on the Semdinli-Yuksekova highway was the work of the Kurdistan Workers' Party, or PKK. (IHA via AP)