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The Pentagon has dropped 60,000 leaflets over the Syrian town of Ar-Raqqa in an effort to dissuade residents from joining the Islamic State terror group. (Twitter/@JakeTapper)
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Seven pro-life activists were reportedly arrested by U.S. Capitol police on Wednesday after staging a prayer protest outside the office of House Speaker John Boehner. (MRCTV)
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The Archbishop of Canterbury, Justin Welby, left, looks at pray ribbons outside Leicester Cathedral to attend a service for the re-reinterment of the mortal remains of Richard III at Leicester Cathedral, Leicester, England, Thursday, March 26, 2015. The skeleton of King Richard III was discovered in 2012 in the foundations of Greyfriars Church, Leicester, 500 years after he was killed in the Battle of Bosworth Field. (AP Photo/Rui Vieira)
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Houthi Shiite fighters (background) patrol as their comrades attend the funeral procession of victims who were killed from triple suicide bombings that hit a pair of mosques in Sanaa, Yemen, on Wednesday. (Associated Press)
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National Edition News cover for March 26, 2015 - World leaders decry Obama refusal to label Islamic terrorists ‘Muslim’: FILE - In this Feb. 17, 2012 photo, Tunisian Salafists confront police officers during a demonstration in Tunis. Mosques are being closed down, local organizations banned and at least 1,000 have been arrested as Tunisia carries out a wide-ranging crackdown against those suspected of sympathizing with radical Islamists. While still one of the only democracies to emerge from the Arab Spring uprisings, Tunisia's battle against terrorism is raising fears that it might be returning to its bad old days of political repression. (AP Photo/Amine Landoulsi, File)
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In this photo taken Tuesday, March 24, 2015, tanks seized recently by militiamen loyal to Yemen's President Abed Rabbo Mansour Hadi take positions at the al-Anad air base in the southern province of Lahej, 60 kilometers (35 miles) north of Aden, Yemen. Hadi fled the country by sea Wednesday on a boat from Aden, as Shiite rebels and their allies advanced on the southern port city of Aden, where he had taken refuge, captured his defense minister and seized the city's airport. (AP Photo/Wael Qubady)
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FILE - This undated file image provided by the U.S. Army shows Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl. A U.S. official says Bergdahl, who abandoned his post in Afghanistan and was held by the Taliban for five years, will be court martialed on charges of desertion and avoiding military service. (AP Photo/U.S. Army, file)
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This image from video shows Allyson Robinson, policy director for an association of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender military personnel called Service members, Partners, and Allies for Respect and Tolerance for All, or SPARTA, during an interview with The Associated Press on Tuesday, March 24, 2015, in Washington. U.S. officials say Defense Secretary Ashton Carter has gotten pushback from senior military leaders on whether the Pentagon should lift its ban on transgender people serving in the armed forces. (AP Photo/Bill Gorman)
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A Houthi Shiite rebel with Yemen's flag painted on his face chants slogans during a rally to show support for the leader of rebels, Abdel-Malik al-Houthi, in Sanaa, Yemen. (Associated Press)
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A fierce Legolas stars in the Blu-ray release of The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies. (Courtesy of Warner Home Video)
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President Barack Obama speaks during a joint news conference with Afghanistan's President Ashraf Ghani, Tuesday, March 24, 2015, in the East Room of the White House in Washington. President Barack Obama said the U.S. will keep just under 10,000 troops in Afghanistan through the end of 2015 at the request of Afghanistan's new president, Ashraf Ghani. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)
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President Barack Obama waves as he and Afghanistan's President Ashraf Ghani conclude their news conference in the East Room of the White House in Washington, Tuesday, March 24, 2015. Ghani represents Obama's last, best hope to make good on his promise to end America's longest war by the time he leaves office, keeping just a thousand or so troops at the embassy to coordinate security. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)
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Imam Ali Brigades, members of of an Iraqi Shiite militant group, launch rockets against Islamic State extremist positions during clashes in Tikrit, 130 kilometers (80 miles) north of Baghdad, Iraq, Tuesday, March 24, 2015. (AP Photo/Khalid Mohammed)
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Members of a militia group loyal to Yemen's President Abed Rabbo Mansour Hadi, known as the Popular Committees, chew qat as they sit next to their tank, guarding a major intersection in Aden, Yemen, in this March 21, 2015, file photo. Once hailed by President Barack Obama as a model for fighting extremism, the U.S. counterterrorism strategy in Yemen has all but collapsed as the country descends into chaos, according to U.S. and Yemeni officials. (AP Photo/Hamza Hendawi, File)
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Rebels from al Qaeda-affiliated Jabhat al-Nusra, also known as the Nusra Front, wave their brigade flag as they step on the top of a Syrian air force helicopter at Taftanaz air base on Jan. 11, 2013. (Associated Press) **FILE**
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Afghanistan's President Ashraf Ghani waves from a golf cart as he rides to a meeting at the Camp David Presidential retreat, Monday, March 23, 2015, in Camp David, Md. The pace of U.S. troop withdrawals from Afghanistan will headline Afghan President Ashraf Ghani's visit to Washington, yet America's exit from the war remains tightly hinged to the abilities of the Afghan forces that face a tough fight against insurgents this spring. (AP Photo/ Evan Vucci)
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Tunisian's president Beji Caid Essebsi, left, lays a wreath in memory of the victims of the terrorist attack at the Bardo Museum in Tunis, Sunday March 22, 2015. The two extremist gunmen who killed 21 people at a museum in Tunis trained in neighboring Libya before caring out the deadly attack, a top Tunisian security official said. (AP Photo/Ali Louati)
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A halt in U.S. airstrikes against Islamic State positions in Tikrit is slowing a potential retaking of the larger city of Mosul from the terrorist army. (Associated Press)
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In this Saturday, March 21, 2015, a volunteer fighter with a Shiite militant group known as 'Jihad Brigades,' aims his weapon during clashes with Islamic State group militants, outside Tikrit, 130 kilometers (80 miles) north of Baghdad, Iraq. (AP Photo)
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A U.S. soldier trains an Iraqi security forces member in a shooting drill in Taji, north of Baghdad, Iraq, Saturday, March 21, 2015. (AP Photo/Karim Kadim) ** FILE **
