Residents wait to receive wheelchairs being distributed by U.S. and Iraqi security forces to needy children at al-Fadhil clinic in Baghdad April 14, 2009.
REUTERS/Atef Hassan
A boy looks through the scope of a rifle of a U.S. soldier taking up position during the distribution of wheelchairs by U.S. and Iraqi security forces to needy children at al-Fadhil clinic in Baghdad April 14, 2009.
REUTERS/Atef Hassan
Children shake hands with a U.S. soldier taking up position during the distribution of wheelchairs by U.S. and Iraqi security forces for needy children at al-Fadhil clinic in Baghdad April 14, 2009.
REUTERS/Atef Hassan
A girl watches a U.S. soldier taking up position outside al-Fadhil clinic during the distribution of wheelchairs by U.S. and Iraqi security forces to the residents in Baghdad April 14, 2009.
REUTERS/Atef Hassan
An Iraqi policeman (L) and U.S. soldiers secure the Saint John the Baptist Chaldean church during Easter mass in Baghdad’s Doura district April 12, 2009.
REUTERS/Ahmed Malik
A U.S. soldier stands guard near a statue of the Madonna during an Easter mass at Saint John the Baptist Chaldean church in Baghdad’s Doura district April 12, 2009.
REUTERS/Ahmed Malik
A U.S. soldier of 3rd Platoon Cherokee Troop from the 3rd Brigade, 10th Mountain Division aims his rifle during a patrol in Logar province April 13, 2009.
REUTERS/Ahmad Masood
French Army Chief Corporal Aurelie (L) and Bruno (R), who are there as part of a Civilian Military Cooperation (CIMIC) mission, talk with an Afghan policeman at Qara Bagh village police station in Shamilia province April 14, 2009. France will send about 120 gendarmes to train Afghan policemen.
REUTERS/Jacky Naegelen
A French Army officer and mentor (L) supervises Afghan National Army (ANA) cadets during a military exercise in Kabul April 12, 2009.
REUTERS/Jacky Naegelen
An Afghan National Army soldier patrols in the stronghold of Panjwaii in Kandahar province, southern Afghanistan, April 12, 2009.
REUTERS/Stefano Rellandini
A Canadian soldier from the 1st battalion Royal 22nd Regiment C company 7th platoon of the NATO-led coalition patrols on top of a hill in the stronghold of Panjwaii in Kandahar province, southern Afghanistan, April 11, 2009. REUTERS/Stefano Rellandini
A Canadian soldier from the 1st battalion Royal 22nd Regiment C company 7th platoon of the NATO-led coalition takes a position in the stronghold of Panjwaii in Kandahar province, southern Afghanistan, April 10, 2009.
REUTERS/Stefano Rellandini
Lebanese army soldiers, stand guard next to an army vehicle which was attacked by gunmen at a major road near the town of Rayak, in Bekaa valley eastern Lebanon, Monday, April 13, 2009. Gunmen sprayed a Lebanese army unit with bullets and rocket-propelled grenades, killing four soldiers, said the state news agency. The ambush on a major road near the town of Rayak comes after a recent push by Lebanese troops to crack down on the drug trade in the Bekaa Valley and carried the hallmarks of a revenge attack by clansmen.
(AP Photo/Samer Husseini)
Armed Italian carabinieri paramilitary police are on patrol against possible looters in the village of Onna, near L’Aquila, central Italy, Sunday, April 12, 2009. Last Monday’s 6.3-magnitude temblor in the Abruzzo region, central Italy killed 294 people, left some 40,000 homeless and leveled thousands of buildings. Italian Premier Silvio Berlusconi last week pledged to crack down on looting in the aftermath of the quake.
(AP Photo/Salvatore Laporta)
An armed Somali man stands guard in Mogadishu on April 13, 2009. Some 60,000 Somalis uprooted by violence in Mogadishu have returned to the city from the country’s southern and central regions since January due to a relative lull in clashes, the UN said Tuesday. (AFP/File/Abdurashid Abikar)
An armed Kenyan policeman stands guard next to the American ship Maersk Alabama at the Kenyan coastal sea port of Mombasa, 500km (311 miles) from the capital Nairobi, April 12, 2009. The Maersk Alabama container ship was attacked far out in the Indian Ocean on Wednesday but its 20 American crew apparently fought off the pirates and regained control. Relatives said merchant marine Captain Richard Phillips, 53, volunteered to go with the pirates in a Maersk Alabama lifeboat in exchange for the safety of his ship and its crew. The lifeboat has run out of fuel and is drifting toward Somalia’s lawless coast, with U.S. warships tracking it to keep the pirates from escaping to shore.
REUTERS/Antony Njuguna
Unidentified armed men are seen on the American ship, the Maersk Alabama, whose captain remains held hostage by Somali pirates, as it arrives in Mombasa, Kenya, guarded by Navy Seals and with the 19 remaining crew members aboard, Saturday April 11 2009. Capt. Richard Phillips is still being held in the lifeboat hundreds of miles from land. U.S. warships are nearby monitoring the situation. The U.S.-flagged ship was attacked by Somali pirates firing automatic weapons Wednesday but its unarmed crew locked themselves in a secure room and then overpowered one of the pirates.
(AP Photo / Karel Prinsloo)
Armed pirates stand over French hostages aboard the yacht “Tanit” in this undated handout picture released by the French Ministry of Defence April 11, 2009. French special forces stormed the yacht held by pirates in an assault that killed one hostage, but freed four.
REUTERS/ECPAD-French Ministry of Defence
