War_Conflict

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In this 1998 file photo, a statue of Confederate Gen. Nathan Bedford Forrest is put up on private property along Interstate 65 in Nashville, Tenn. The statue is one of several of Forrest, an early leader of the Ku Klux Klan, that have come under question after a massacre at a black church in Charleston, S.C. Following the massacre, a bipartisan mix of officials across the country is calling for the removal of Confederate flags and other symbols of the Confederacy from public places. (AP Photo/Mark Humphrey, File)

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Developers are calling the Hoverbike, "the world's first flying motorcycle," but it's also supposed to be a valuable tool to militaries. It can be used to transport troops over rough terrain, move supplies or even function as an overhead surveillance tool. (www.hover-bike.com Photographs)

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This photo shows a carving depicting confederates Stonewall Jackson, Robert E. Lee and Jefferson Davis, Tuesday, June 23, 2015, in Stone Mountain, Ga. Calls to remove Confederate imagery from public places multiplied rapidly across the South and beyond Tuesday with opponents eyeing state flags, license plates and statues of Civil War politicians and generals. (AP Photo/John Bazemore)

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In this Dec. 18, 2014, courtroom sketch, Boston Marathon bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev sits in federal court in Boston for a final hearing before his trial begins in January. More than 30 victims of the Boston Marathon bombing and their family members are expected to describe the attack’s impact on their lives before a judge formally sentences Tsarnaev to death. Tsarnaev’s sentencing hearing is scheduled for Wednesday, June 24, 2015, in U.S. District Court. (Jane Flavell Collins via AP, File)

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Illustration on the folly of pressuring for an Israeli-Palestinian peace agreement by Linas Garsys/The Washington Times

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National Edition News cover for June 23, 2015 - Obama taps military to be climate warriors: In this Dec. 6, 2012 photo provided by the U.S. Department of Defense, soldiers assigned to 6th Engineer Battalion utilize snow shoes during Arctic Light Individual Training on the Bulldog Trail in sub-zero conditions at Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson, Alaska. ALIT is the United States Army Alaska's Cold Weather Indoctrination program. It gives all soldiers, regardless of their job, the foundation to successfully work, train, and go to war in some of the harshest environments in the world. (AP Photo/U.S. Air Force, Justin Connaher)

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The Warrior Games offer an sports competition for wounded, ill and injured service members and veterans. Athletes representing teams from the Army, Marine Corps, Navy, Air Force, Special Operations Command and the British Armed Forces compete in events. (U.S. Army)

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In this Dec. 6, 2012, photo provided by the U.S. Department of Defense, soldiers assigned to 6th Engineer Battalion use snow shoes during Arctic Light Individual Training on the Bulldog Trail in sub-zero conditions at Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson, Alaska. ALIT is the United States Army Alaska's Cold Weather Indoctrination program. It gives all soldiers, regardless of their job, the foundation to successfully work, train, and go to war in some of the harshest environments in the world. (AP Photo/U.S. Air Force, Justin Connaher) **FILE**

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In this May 28, 2015 photo, members of the fast response police units, known as Halcones, detain a suspected gang member, who was found out of breath on a bed following a chase by police, in San Salvador, El Salvador. Observers blame the worsening insecurity on the breakdown of a 1.5-year-old truce between the gangs and the government. While the homicide rate plunged, critics say the truce gave the gangs time to strengthen, train and acquire heavier arms than they had in the past. (AP Photo/Manu Brabo)

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US Secretary of Defense Ash Carter, right, listens to NATO Response Force soldiers during his visit to the I. German-Dutch Brigade in Muenster, Germany, Monday, June 22, 2015. The troops are part of NATO's Very High Readiness Joint Task Force (VJTF). (AP Photo/Martin Meissner)

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This image provided by the U.S. Army shows Maj. Gen. Dana J.H. Pittard. The Pentagon has reprimanded an Pittard for steering a defense contract to a firm run by two former classmates at West Point, according to a published report. (AP Photo/U.S. Army)

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An Afghan security officer stands guard at the entry gate of the Afghan parliament after an attack by the Taliban, in Kabul, Afghanistan, Monday, June 22, 2015. (AP Photo/Rahmat Gul)

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National Edition News cover for June 20, 2015 - U.S. admits global terrorist attacks up 35 percent: Lebanese police inspectors, investigates the site of a deadly car bomb that exploded Saturday evening near a gas station, in the predominately Shiite town of Hermel, about 10 miles (16 kilometers) from the Syrian border in northeast Lebanon, Sunday, Feb. 2, 2014. A shadowy Lebanese Sunni extremist group late Saturday claimed responsibility for a suicide car bombing in Hermel, a stronghold of Lebanon's militant Shiite Hezbollah group, that killed several people in the latest attack linked to the war in neighboring Syria. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla)

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GUN CRIME GALLERY In 2013, a shooter opened fire at Prince Middle School in Atlanta, Georgia. However, after wounding only one student, the suspect was disarmed by an armed guard who was stationed at the school.

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A police officer searches for a shooting suspect outside the Emanuel AME Church, in downtown Charleston, South Carolina on Wednesday. The shooting has prompted not just a calls for tighter gun-control laws, but also pleas from the right for churches to protect themselves by allowing their parishioners to carry concealed firearms. (Associated Press)

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FILE - In this Friday, March 27, 2015 file photo, Iraqi security forces prepare to attack Islamic State extremist positions as smoke rises from central Tikrit, Iraq during clashes in the city, 130 kilometers (80 miles) north of Baghdad. (AP Photo/Khalid Mohammed)

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Syria overtook Afghanistan to become the world's biggest source of refugees last year, while the number of people forced from their homes by conflicts worldwide rose to a record 59.5 million, the United Nations' refugee agency said Thursday, June 18, 2015. (AP Photo/Petros Giannakouris, File)

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U.S. Army helicopters transport soldiers during the NATO Noble Jump exercise on a training range near Swietoszow Zagan, Poland, Thursday, June 18, 2015. (AP Photo/Alik Keplicz)

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In this Monday, June 16, 2014 file photo, demonstrators chant pro-Islamic State group slogans as they wave the group's flags in front of the provincial government headquarters in Mosul, 225 miles (360 kilometers) northwest of Baghdad, Iraq. (AP Photo/File)