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Two New York City police officers were attacked during police brutality demonstrations that shut down the Brooklyn Bridge Tuesday night. (NBC New York)
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Benghazi suspect Ali Ouni Harzi has been designated a global terrorist by the U.S. State Department and the United Nations. (Image: Long War Journal)
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British fighter jets were scrambled on Wednesday, April 15, 2015 when Russian aircraft flew too close to U.K. airspace. (Image: Royal Air Force, United Kingdom)
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Firearms evidence is on display during a news conference in Portland, Ore., on Dec. 9, 2013. Oregon senators have approved a bill requiring background checks on most private gun sales. (Jamie Francis/The Oregonian via AP) **FILE**
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A Sudanese woman prepares to vote on the second day of Sudan's presidential and legislative elections, in Izba, an impoverished neighborhood on the outskirts of Khartoum, Sudan, Tuesday, April 14, 2015. (AP Photo/Abd Raouf)
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Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi, right, holds a new conference before leaving to the United States at Baghdad airport, Iraq, Monday, April 13, 2015. The prime minister is making an in-person appeal to President Barack Obama for more help in defeating the Islamic State militants, hoping recent gains in the fight fueled by U.S. airstrikes will encourage more investment from a war-weary United States. (AP Photo/Khalid Mohammed)
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Teen surfing champion Elio Canestri was reportedly killed Sunday morning in a shark attack off the coast of the Indian ocean island of Reunion. (Instagram/floresjeremy)
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Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi arrived last week to distribute weapons and support security forces and Sunni volunteers at a camp in Habaniyah, west of Baghdad. After victory against Islamic State militants in the city of Tikrit, Iraq set sights on western Anbar province for its second major counteroffensive against the Islamic State. (Associated Press)
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Illustration on steps that can be taken to constrain Iran's quest for nuclear weapons by Alexander Hunter/The Washington Times
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In this photo taken on Wednesday, Feb. 25, 2015, fighters of a Chechen battalion fighting against Russia-backed rebels, reload in the town of Lysychansk, Ukraine. Russian pro-Kremlin newspapers published reports based on unidentified sources in the security services that accused the Ukrainian government and Osmayev of ordering the murder of Russian opposition leader Boris Nemtsov, the claims Osmayev has denied. (AP Photo/Olya Engalycheva)
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Pope Francis, left, is greeted by the head of Armenia's Orthodox Church Karekin II, during an Armenian-Rite Mass on the occasion of the commemoration of the 100th anniversary of the Armenian Genocide, in St. Peter's Basilica, at the Vatican, Sunday, April 12, 2015. Historians estimate that up to 1.5 million Armenians were killed by Ottoman Turks around the time of World War I, an event widely viewed by genocide scholars as the first genocide of the 20th century. Turkey however denies that the deaths constituted genocide, saying the toll has been inflated, and that those killed were victims of civil war and unrest. (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia)
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Pope Francis celebrates an Armenian-Rite Mass to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the Armenian Genocide, in St. Peter's Basilica, at the Vatican Sunday, April 12, 2015. Historians estimate that up to 1.5 million Armenians were killed by Ottoman Turks around the time of World War I, an event widely viewed by genocide scholars as the first genocide of the 20th century. Turkey however denies that the deaths constituted genocide, saying the toll has been inflated, and that those killed were victims of civil war and unrest. (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia)
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The Marine Corps' Infantry Officers’ Course at Twentynine Palms, Calif., March 21, 2012. (Image: Marine Corps)
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U.S. Army National Guardsman Will Stack posted a video on his recent traffic stop in South Carolina. The positive message has gone viral. His video has over 1 million shares on Facebook since April 8, 2015. (Image: Facebook, Will Stack)
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Army veteran Shawn Manning was shot six times by Maj. Nidal Hasan on Nov. 5, 2009 during the Fort Hood terrorist attack. (Image: Fox News screenshot)
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Zaki-ur-Rehman Lakhvi, the suspected mastermind behind the 2008 Mumbai terror attacks that killed 166 people, was released from Pakistani custody on Friday, April 10, 2015. (Associated Press) ** FILE **
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Chinese paramilitary policemen stand watch visitors near a portrait of Mao Zedong. A popular Chinese television celebrity has apologized for insulting the founder of Communist China at a private dinner and says he will better discipline himself. Bi Fujian, the host of the talent show “Avenue of Stars” at the state broadcaster China Central Television, issued the apology April 9 on his own personal microblog that has 1.3 million followers. (AP Photo)
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Police search a parking garage on the U.S. Census Bureau headquarters campus Thursday for an armed man who, according to a fire official, shot a security guard at a gate to the facility in Suitland, Md. (Associated Press)
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Vice President Joe Biden speaks about U.S. policy in Iraq, Thursday, April 9, 2015, at the National Defense University in Washington, in advance of Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi’s visit to Washington, next week. The vice president was to discuss Iraq’s political and military progress, and the work that lies ahead to defeat ISIL and forge a more inclusive Iraq. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)
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Vice President Joe Biden speaks about U.S. policy in Iraq, Thursday, April 9, 2015, at the National Defense University in Washington, in advance of Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi’s visit to Washington, next week. The vice president was to discuss Iraq’s political and military progress, and the work that lies ahead to defeat ISIL and forge a more inclusive Iraq. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)
