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A student pilot and a sensor operator sit at the controls of a remotely piloted MQ-9 Reaper in a ground-based cockpit during a training mission flown from Hancock Field Air National Guard Base, Syracuse, New York June 6, 2012. The 174th Fighter Wing will become the 174th Attack Wing Sept. 9, reflecting the change of mission from flying fighter aircraft to operating the MQ-9, which the wing has done since December 2009.

Uganda’s political pressure group For God and My Country (4GC) will launch a campaign in rural areas to educate residents about the government’s failure to tackle the country’s problems, says the group’s leader Matthias Mpuga.

Remains of burnt buses outside a power plant in the Qaboun suburbs of Damascus, Syria, in June 2012.

Syrian Ministers Killed in Damascus

DRC army soldiers stand guard during a military operation to strike M23 positions close to Rutshuru in eastern North Kivu province.

Special Representative Bert Koenders.

A Pakistani court has rejected the findings of a commission that traveled to India to investigate the 2008 terrorist attacks in the Indian city of Mumbai.

Kofi Annan, Joint Special Envoy of the UN and the League of Arab States on Syria.

Army Capt. Stacy James Rostorfer, commander of B Company, 1st Battalion, 149th Aviation Regiment, points to areas that incurred ballistics damage on the underside of aircraft 451, the last A-model AH-64 Apache helicopter to be retired from Army service. The unit was the last to fly the A-model Apache and recently held a ceremony marking the retirement of the A-model aircraft. Aircraft 451 will be disassembled and then refurbished into the D-model AH-64 Apache Longbow.

Soldiers from the South Carolina Army National Guard's B Company, 2nd Battalion, 238th Aviation load an H-13B Sioux helicopter onto a CH-47D Chinook from B Company in Pierre, S.D., July 10, 2012. The H-13B, the first helicopter used by the South Carolina Army Guard, will be flown from Pierre to Columbia, S.C., to be restored and placed on display in the South Carolina Military Museum, which focuses on the history of the South Carolina National Guard.