A Mai-Mai child soldier, recently demobilized by the United Nations, says he has nothing to do now and is considering a return to fighting. It is a decision many may make if not offered an alternative. (Lindsay Branham/Special to The Washington Times)
A protester attacks ATMs amid a clash in Istanbul on Tuesday between Kurdish demonstrators and Turkish police. The main Kurdish party threatened to boycott Turkey's upcoming election because some Kurdish candidates will be barred. (Associated Press)
Egyptians chant slogans as they protest the government in Tahrir Square in Cairo on Friday, April 15, 2011. (AP Photo/Khalil Hamra)
A Yemeni police officer holding posters of a demonstrator killed by security forces last March, shouts slogans during a demonstration by anti-government protestors demanding the resignation of Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh, in Sanaa, Yemen, on Sunday, April 10, 2011. (AP Photo/Muhammed Muheisen)
Workmen prepare a Grad rocket launcher for operation at a Libyan rebel weapons workshop and training camp in Benghazi, Libya, on Tuesday, April 19, 2011. The rebels are hard at work training new recruits and making operational the mostly decades-old captured heavy weapons that Col. Moammar Gadhafi forces left behind, but the rebels are struggling to overpower the better-trained and -equipped forces they are facing in the eastern desert. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis)
Syrians pray in Clock Square in the center of Homs, Syria, the nation's third-largest city, in this photo taken on Monday, April 18, 2011, by a citizen journalist with a cellphone camera and acquired by the AP. Security forces fired tear gas and live ammunition Tuesday at hundreds of anti-government protesters who had taken over the square. (AP Photo)
Associated Press Morgan Barfield carries her grandfather's World War II-era American flag across what is left of her grandmother's home in Colerain, N.C., Monday after a tornado.
A Libyan rebel fighter reads his Koran next to a tank of the pro-Gadhafi forces that was destroyed near Ajdabiya, Libya. The loyal forces have changed their tactics since NATO airstrikes began. (Associated Press)
An Iraqi soldier secures the scene of a suicide car bomb in Baghdad on Monday, April 18, 2011. Bombers detonated two explosives-packed cars outside Baghdad's heavily fortified Green Zone, killing at least 9 people and wounding 23, police said. (AP Photo)
