ST. PETERSBURG, RUSSIA: Members of military-historical clubs wearing Soviet World War II-era uniforms dance at the Warsaw train station in St.Petersburg on May 9, 2012, marking Victory Day celebrations.

KIEV, UKRAINE: A boy climbs on a World War II monument at an open air museum in Kiev on May 9, 2012.

MOSCOW, RUSSIA: Russia's newly-inaugurated President Vladimir Putin and new Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev watch a Victory Day parade at Red Square on May 9, 2012.

JERUSALEM, ISRAEL: Relatives of Israeli veterans who fought against the Nazis wear Soviet uniforms as they march in Jerusalem on May 9, 2012.

ST. PETERSBURG, RUSSIA: People meet the 'Victory train, a vintage locomotive with members of a historical military club aboard, at Varshavsky railway station on May 9, 2012.

Wounded Syrian soldiers react following a roadside bomb attack that targeted their convoy as they escorted UN peace observers in the restive city of Daraa, Syria on May 9, 2012.

A wounded Syrian soldier is carried by another vehicle to a hospital in Daraa.

A woman uses a net to catch fish in a pool of water near the city of Makeni in Sierra Leone on April 20, 2012.

Komba Nyanku, left, 12, who wants to become a lawyer, and his friend, Abdoulaye Marrah, 12, who dreams of being a pilot, pose for a portrait in the town of Koidu on April 21, 2012. Neither of the boys has the money to pay school fees.

Kadiatu Kauma, 24, sits in a hospital with gunshot wounds to her arm, stomach and back after police opened fire on a crowd of protestors in the mining town of Bumbuna on April 19, 2012. A woman was shot and killed and several others were wounded when police opened fire on a crowd protesting wages and working conditions at the British mining company African Minerals, according to witnesses, hospital staff and police officials.

A headstone marks a mass grave of rebel victims in the village of Bomaru, where the conflict started in 1991, on April 22, 2012.

Guests attend a wedding in Koidu on April 21, 2012.

A worker carries charcoal through a slashed and burned area in eastern Sierra Leone, April 20, 2012. Logging is illegal in Sierra Leone, but remains the leading cause of environmental degradation, according to the European Union. Population pressure, common slash and burn methods and illegal logging mean the country's bountiful forests could disappear by 2018, according to the Forestry Ministry.

The remote border post between Liberia and Sierra Leone, where fighters from Liberia entered on March 23, 1991 and triggered the start of the civil war, is seen in the village of Bomaru, eastern Sierra Leone, on April 22, 2012.

A soldier in South Sudan's SPLA army looks up at warplanes as he lies on the ground to take cover beside a road during an air strike by the Sudanese air force in Rubkona, near Bentiu, South Sudan, on April 23, 2012.

A woman runs along a road during an air strike by the Sudanese air force in Rubkona on April 23, 2012.

A soldier in South Sudan's SPLA army walks in a market destroyed in an air strike by the Sudanese air force in Rubkona on April 23, 2012.

A South Sudanese soldier has a bullet removed from his leg in the Rubkona Military Hospital on April 22, 2012.

Afghan special forces are seen on top of a building which had been occupied by militants, in Kabul, Afghanistan, on April 16, 2012.

Afghan policemen and officials stand next to the wreckage of a car used in a suicide attack in front of a building from which insurgents launched an attack, in Kabul on April 16, 2012.

An Afghan National Army soldier keeps watch near the Provincial Reconstruction Team (PRT) as a NATO helicopter flies over the site of an attack in Jalalabad province April 15. Gunmen launched multiple attacks in the Afghan capital Kabul on Sunday, assaulting Western embassies in the heavily guarded, central diplomatic area and at the parliament in the west, witnesses and officials said. Taliban insurgents claimed responsibility for the assault, one of the boldest on the capital since U.S.-backed Afghan forces removed the group from power in 2001.

A NATO soldier runs to the scene of a attack by Taliban militants in Kabul, Afghanistan, April 15.

An Afghan policeman runs at the scene of a suicide bomb attack outside the airport in Jalalabad on April 15. Suicide bombers struck across Afghanistan in coordinated attacks, with explosions and gunfire rocking the diplomatic enclave in the capital as militants took over buildings and tried to enter parliament. Outside the capital, attackers also targeted government buildings in Logar province, the airport in Jalalabad, and a police facility in the town of Gardez in Paktya province.

U.S. Army soldiers from Alpha troop, 4-73 Cavalry Regiment, 4th Brigade, 82nd Airborne Division carry an injured comrade to a helicopter during a firefight with Taliban during a mission in the Maiwand district of Kandahar province. The picture was taken on April 9, but was made available today.

U.S. Army soldiers from Alpha troop, 4-73 Cavalry Regiment, 4th Brigade, 82nd Airborne division are silhouetted as they walk during a mission in the Maiwand district of Kandahar province on April 10.

U.S. Army soldiers from Alpha troop, 4-73 Cavalry Regiment, 4th Brigade, 82nd Airborne Division break a new firing position in a wall during a mission in the Maiwand district of Kandahar province, southern Afghanistan on April 10.

A U.S. Army soldier from Alpha troop, 4-73 Cavalry Regiment, 4th Brigade, 82nd Airborne Division checks his gear before a mission in the Maiwand district of Kandahar.

Red chairs are displayed along a main street in Sarajevo as the city marks the 20th anniversary of the start of the Bosnian war on April 6, 2012.

City officials have lined up 11,541 red chairs arranged in 825 rows along the main street that now looks like a red river representing the 11,541 Sarajevans who were killed during the siege.

Cellist Vedran Smajlovic addresses the auditorium before playing at one of the ceremonies being held to mark the 20th anniversary of the start of the siege of Sarajevo, on April 5, 2012.

Rebels from Abu Suleiman's group of fighters detonate a pipe bomb to cut off access to their mountainous stronghold in the northern Syrian province of Idlib on March 20. Abu Suleiman, who finances the weapons for the unit which carries his name, has assembled one of the multitude of armed groups fighting the regime.

A rebel from Abu Suleiman's group of fighters prepares a pipe bomb, which will be detonated to cut road access to their mountainous stronghold in the northern Syrian province of Idlib on March 20. Abu Suleiman, who finances the weapons for the unit which carries his name, has assembled one of the multitude of armed groups fighting the regime.

A rebel from Abu Suleiman's group of fighters assesses the damage after detonating a pipe bomb that was used to cut road access to their mountainous stronghold in the northern Syrian province of Idlib on March 20. Abu Suleiman, who finances the weapons for the unit which carries his name, has assembled one of the multitude of armed groups fighting the regime.

People run for cover from smoke after shelling in the Karm al-Zeitoun area of Homs, Syria on March 12, 2012. The image was supplied to Reuters by a network of activists.

A handout photo distributed by the official Syrian Arab News Agency (SANA) shows electrical workers at what it says are buildings destroyed by opposition forces in the Baba Amr area in Homs on March 14, 2012.

An image grab taken from a video uploaded on YouTube on March 13, 2012, allegedly shows shelling by regime forces in Maaret al-Numan in the restive Idlib province.

Members of the rebel Free Syrian Army gather in a mountainous area of the restive Idlib province in northwestern Syria on March 13, 2012. Some 100 fighters are gathered in this region, a hotspot of rebel operations against President Bashar al-Assad's regime.

A defaced poster of President Bashar al-Assad is seen on the ground after heavy shelling by government forces in Sermeen near the northern city of Idlib on February 28, 2012.

Syrian children hide behind sand bags on the street in the central town of Rastan, near Homs, on March 13, 2012.