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A worker wipes traces of blood from the wall of Ataturk Airport in Istanbul, Wednesday, June 29, 2016. Suicide attackers killed dozens and wounded more than 140 at Istanbul's busy Ataturk Airport late Tuesday, the latest in a series of bombings to strike Turkey in recent months. Turkish officials said the massacre was most likely the work of the Islamic State group. Turkish authorities have banned distribution of images relating to the Ataturk airport attack within Turkey.(AP Photo/Omer Kuscu)
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Turkish police officers patrol outside Istanbul's Ataturk airport, Wednesday, June 29, 2016. Suicide attackers killed dozens and wounded scores of others at Istanbul's busy Ataturk Airport late Tuesday, the latest in a series of bombings to strike Turkey in recent months. Turkish authorities have banned distribution of images relating to the Ataturk airport attack within Turkey. (AP Photo/Lefteris Pitarakis)
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Russian President Vladimir Putin gestures as he addresses students during his visit to German Embassy school in Moscow, Russia, Wednesday, June 29, 2016. Putin has offered his condolences to Turkey which was hit by suicide attacks on Tuesday, killing dozens at Istanbul's airport. (AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko, pool)
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In this June 8, 2016 file photo, police conduct an overnight curfew for minors in Manila, Philippines. (AP Photo/Aaron Favila)
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In this Sunday, June 19, 2016 photo, men wait outside the al-Makhtoum mosque in Zarqa, Jordan for the body of Nasser Idreis to be transported to the cemetery for burial. Idreis died of implications of a liver infection while in prison for allegedly supporting Islamic State. Hundreds of suspected backers of the Islamic State group in Jordan have been sentenced to prison, are awaiting trial or are being held for questioning in a heavy crackdown by the kingdom under toughened anti-terror laws that punish even liking or sharing IS material on social media. (Layla Quran/AP Photo)
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Brett McGurk, President Obama's envoy to members of the anti-Islamic State coalition, told a Capitol Hill hearing that Islamic State officials are telling recruits in the West to stay put and conduct attacks at home rather than travel to the Salafist group's base in Syria, where its control is increasingly under threat. (Associated Press)
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A woman reacts outside Istanbul's Ataturk airport on Tuesday after suspected Islamic State group extremists attacked the international terminal of Istanbul's Ataturk airport. (Associated Press)
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Special operations forces from Iraq, Jordan and the U.S. conduct an exercise as part of Eager Lion multinational military maneuvers at the King Abdullah Special Operations Training Center in Amman, Jordan, on June 20, 2013. (Associated Press)
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Syrian rebels attend a training session in Maaret Ikhwan near Idlib, Syria, on Dec. 17, 2012. (Associated Press)
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A member of Iraqi counterterrorism forces stands guard near Islamic State militant graffiti in Fallujah, Iraq, Monday, June 27, 2016. Thick clouds of black smoke billowed over northwest Fallujah Monday as dozens of homes continued to burn a day after the city was declared “fully liberated” from the Islamic State group. Iraqi special forces Lt. Gen. Abdel Wahab al-Saadi who led the operation to retake the city, said that IS militants torched hundreds of houses in Fallujah's north and west as they fled Sunday, just as the fighters did in many of the city's other neighborhoods over the course of the operation. (AP Photo/Hadi Mizban)
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U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry, left, speaks during a media conference with European Union High Representative Federica Mogherini, right, at EU headquarters in Brussels on Monday, June 27, 2016. Kerry is on a one day trip to meet with NATO and EU officials. (AP Photo/Virginia Mayo)
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Former Army Ranger Kris "Tanto" Paronto has started a nonprofit called Leading From the Front, which he hopes will translate into a national movement to drive home the real threat Islamic extremists pose to America. (Associated Press)
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Defense Secretary Ashton Carter reportedly is concerned that the United Kingdom will leave the coalition in Afghanistan. He is slated to meet with British Defense Minister Michael Fallon during an upcoming NATO summit. (Associated Press)
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Eco-Terrorism Damage Illustration by Greg Groesch/The Washington Times
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DRC Prime Minister Augustin Matata Ponyo Mapon. (Photo: Government of DRC)
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Three Republican senators have joined their House colleagues in opposing the nomination of State Department official Rose Gottemoeller to be the next NATO deputy secretary general. (Associated press)
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The DIY gunsmith industry has accelerated in the wake of the June 12, 2016, terrorist attack in Orlando, Florida. Gun-rights advocates are using milling machines and emerging technology to create untraceable weapons as lawmakers call for new regulations. (YouTube, Defense Distributed)
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FILE - In this Jan. 4, 2016, file photo, Juliana, 20, left, and Mariana, 24, rebel soldiers for the 36th Front of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, or FARC, listen to a commander speak on the peace negotiations between the rebels and the Colombian government, in a hidden camp in Antioquia state, in the northwest Andes of Colombia. Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos said Tuesday, June 21, that his government may reach an agreement on a bilateral ceasefire with leftist rebels as early as this week. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd,File)
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Venezuelan Foreign Minister Delcy Rodriguez scolded her fellow representatives in an angry, 30-minute address.
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Jordanian soldiers and relatives of Jordanian soldier Belal Al-Zuhbi carry his coffin near the city of Jerash, north of Amman, Jordan, Tuesday, June 21, 2016. A suicide attacker driving a truck packed with explosives barreled through Syria's border with Jordan, setting off a blast that killed six members of the Jordanian security forces and wounded 14. A government spokesman says Jordan is sealing the border area, leaving it unclear how international aid will reach some 64,000 Syrian refugees stranded on the other side. It was the deadliest attack along the tense border in recent memory. (AP Photo/Raad Adayleh)
