War_Conflict

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FILE - In this file photo dated 1931, Mahatma Gandhi talks to a crowd in India. The Indian independence leader who is considered one of history’s great champions of non-violent struggle, Gandhi was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize five times, but never won the honor. Nobel Prizes cannot be changed or revoked, so the judges must put a lot of thought into their selections, with this year's awards due to be announced over the next two weeks. (AP Photo/James A. Mills, FILE)

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FILE - In this Wednesday, July 13, 2016 file photo, NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg speaks during a news conference at NATO headquarters in Brussels, Belgium. NATO’s secretary-general says his bid to become the alliance’s chief was supported by U.S. President Barack Obama, who worked behind the scenes to make it happen. In an autobiography published Friday, Sept. 30 titled "My Story,” former Norwegian prime minister Jens Stoltenberg wrote that Obama sent him a letter in late 2013 after Stoltenberg had resigned because his Labor Party had lost a parliamentary election. (AP Photo/Darko Vojinovic, file)

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FILE - In this Monday, March 28, 2016 photo, women try to comfort a Christian mother who lost her son in bomb attack, claimed responsibility by Jamaat-ul-Ahrar, in Lahore, Pakistan. One of Pakistan’s most vicious militant groups, Jamaat-ul-Ahrar, has dramatically stepped its attacks over the past month in what appears to be a backlash to military operations against it. It has eclipsed the Pakistani Taliban as the main militant group in a country where multiple armed extremist factions operate. (AP Photo/K.M. Chaudary, File)

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"Hitler massacred three million Jews ... there's three million drug addicts. There are. I'd be happy to slaughter them," said Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte. (Associated Press)

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Supporters of the peace accord between the Colombian government and FARC rebels rally ahead of a referendum in which voters will be asked to ratify or reject the deal. (Associated Press photographs)

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Demonstrators yell, "No to the plebiscite," to protest the government's peace agreement with the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, which has been involved in a half-century of warfare that has caused more than 200,000 casualties. (Associated Press)

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FILE - In this file photo taken Wednesday, April 9, 2003, an Iraqi man, bottom right, watches Cpl. Edward Chin of the 3rd Battalion, 4th Marines Regiment, cover the face of a statue of Saddam Hussein with an American flag before toppling the statue in downtown in Baghdad, Iraq. A bill passed by Congress allowing the families of 9/11 victims to sue the Saudi government has reinforced to some in the Arab world a long-held view that the U.S. only demands justice for its own victims of terrorism, despite decades of controversial U.S. interventions around the world. (AP Photo/Jerome Delay, File)

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FILE - This a 1944 file photo of part of the Babi Yar ravine at the outskirts of Kiev, Ukraine where the advancing Red Army unearthed the bodies of 14,000 civilians killed by fleeing Nazis, 1944. Ukrainians have marked the 75th anniversary of the Babi Yar massacre, one of the most infamous mass slaughters of World War II. (AP Photo, file)

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In this Sept. 20, 2016 photo, Michaela Wieties, poses in her home in Racine, Wis. Wieties, a Union Grove High School senior was one of three students from across the country to win a scholarship to the prestigious Lincoln Forum Symposium in Gettysburg, Pa., in November. Wieties has loved Lincoln and Civil War history for years. (Mark Feldmann/The Journal Times via AP)

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Defense Misrata brigade tanks protect a street in Sirte from Islamic State jihadis. Although the Government of National Accord Forces expect to capture the city within the next month, the Misrata fighters are bracing for a wider war over who will rule Libya. (Mathieu Galtier/Special to The Washington Times)

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Defense Misrata brigade fighter Abdallah Karim watches for jihadi militants amid the destruction of his city. "I don't care," he says. "I just want the Islamic State men to be dead." (Mathieu Galtier/Special to the Washington Times)

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Former refugee Adhal Awan of the South Sudan, attends a ceremony as The University of Utah’s College of Social Work in Salt Lake City celebrates the launch of the Center for Research on Migration & Refugee Integration on Wednesday, Sept. 28, 2016. (Scott G Winterton/Deseret News via AP)

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Illustration on Israel's nuclear strategy in light of use of nuclear weapons by other actors by Alexander Hunter/The Washington Times

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Members of the Army "Old Guard" unit escort remains thought to be those of U.S. troops who died in the Mexican-American War as they arrived at at Dover Air Force Base in Dover, Del., Wednesday, Sept. 28, 2016. The remains thought to be those of U.S. troops who died in the Mexican-American War have been flown to a military mortuary in Delaware in an effort to determine whether they belonged to militia members of a Tennessee regiment known as "The Bloody First." (Gary Emeigh/The Wilmington News-Journal via AP)

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The U.S. Marine Corps plans on purchasing 144 Polaris MRZR-Ds for infantry units. The Polaris Defense vehicles will allow troops to stay off-road and carry 1,500 pounds of payload. (YouTube, Polaris Defense)

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Mikhail Malyshevsky, an adviser to the director of the state-controlled Almaz-Antei consortium speaks in Moscow, Russia, Wednesday, Sept. 28, 2016, saying that an analysis of the plane's shrapnel-ridden fragments show that it couldn't have been downed by a missile launched from a rebel-controlled area in eastern Ukraine. The Russian maker of the Buk air defense missile system is contesting the conclusions of the Dutch-led investigation into the 2014 downing of Malaysia Airlines Flight 17. (AP Photo/Pavel Golovkin)

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FILE - In this Sept 22, 2016 file photo, President Barack Obama speaks in the East Room of the White House in Washington. The president is preparing to send more troops to Iraq to help reclaim the city of Mosul from the Islamic State group, U.S. officials said Wednesday, Sept. 28, 2016. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster, File)

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FILE--in this file photo of Thursday Feb.25, 2016, UN Secretary General, Ban Ki Moon, speaks to the media in Juba, South Sudan. A confidential report from U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon to the U.N. Security Council, dated Sept. 8, 2016, obtained by The Associated Press, is a stark list of the ways South Sudan's government has obstructed the U.N. peacekeeping mission in a country devastated by civil war. (AP Photo-file)

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FILE - In this Aug. 25, 2010 file photo, U.S. Army Pfc. Brandon Martin, of Tuscon, Ariz., left, and Pfc. Richard Flynn, of Starke, Fla., of Tactical Command Post, HQ Company, 2-502 Infantry, 101st Airborne Division, take up a fighting position behind a barrier, during a joint patrol with the Afghan Army, in Zhari district, Kandahar province, southern Afghanistan. Iowa's second-largest city has managed to keep flooding at bay largely because of the barriers that were widely used to protect soldiers in Bosnia, Iraq and Afghanistan. Crews in Cedar Rapids hastily erected Hesco barriers along miles of the Cedar River through neighborhoods and downtown. As of Tuesday morning, Sept. 27, 2016, the sand-filled containers had protected thousands of properties. (AP Photo/Brennan Linsley, File)

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FBI Director James Comey, center, flanked Homeland Secretary Jeh Johnson, right, and Director of National Counterterrorism Center, Office of the National Intelligence, Nicholas Rasmussen, pauses while testifying on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, Sept. 27, 2016, before the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee hearing on on terror threats. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)