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Paul Schemm

In this Dec. 4, 2014 photo, Mehdi "DJ Costa" Akkari, a Tunisian rapper, looks at an image of his brother Youssef, who fought with extremists in Syria and was killed by a U.S. airstrike, in Tunis, Tunisia. While foreigners from across the world have joined the Islamic State militant group, some arrive in Iraq or Syria only to find day-to-day life much more austere and violent than they had expected. (AP Photo/Paul Schemm) (AP)

The cost of leaving Islamic State: Death or jail

Lori Hinnant, Paul Schemm

Falling oil prices worry Algeria

Karim Kebir, Paul Schemm

Mortars hit Syrian camp

Paul Schemm

Activists on Syria:

Paul Schemm

Thousands marched through Morocco's economic capital with various signs, including right "Bread, Freedom, Dignity and Human", right, "Yes people have to chose the constitution", center, and "Boycott, boycott ridicules election", left, during a rally organized by the 20th February, the Moroccan Arab Spring movement in Casablanca, Morocco, Sunday, June 12, 2011. Protesters called for greater democracy and an end to corruption even as the king prepares to unveil new constitutional amendments to address calls for reform. (AP Photo/Abdeljalil Bounhar) (AP)

Thousands protest across Morocco despite reforms

Paul Schemm

In this photo taken during a government-organised visit for foreign media, a pro-Gadhafi fighter is seen beneath a plume of smoke from the burning oil refinery in Ras Lanouf, 380 miles (615 kilometers) southeast of the capital Tripoli, in Libya Saturday, March 12, 2011. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis) (AP)

Gadhafi drives rebels from one of last strongholds

Diaa Hadid, Paul Schemm

In this photo taken during a government-organised visit for foreign media, a pro-Gadhafi fighter makes his evening prayers in the desert as a plume of smoke rises from the burning oil refinery in Ras Lanouf, 380 miles (615 kilometers) southeast of the capital Tripoli, in Libya Saturday, March 12, 2011. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis) (AP)

Gadhafi forces hammer oil town as troops advance

Paul Schemm

A Libyan volunteer carries ammunition on the outskirts of the eastern town of Ras Lanouf, Libya, Thursday, March 10, 2011. Government forces drove hundreds of rebels from a strategic oil port with rockets and tank shells on Thursday, significantly expanding Moammar Gadhafi's control of Libya. (AP Photo/Tara Todras-Whitehill) (AP)

Libyan rebels lose oil port, but vow to regroup

Ryan Lucas, Paul Schemm

An anti-Gadhafi rebel, walks along a sand barrier, as other rebels fire a rocket launcher seen in the right, during fighting against pro-Gadhafi fighters, in Sedra, eastern Libya, Wednesday March 9, 2011. A high-ranking member of the Libyan military flew to Cairo on Wednesday with a message for Egyptian army officials from Moammar Gadhafi, whose troops pounded opposition forces with artillery barrages and gunfire in at least two major cities. Gadhafi appeared to be keeping up the momentum he has seized in recent days in his fight against rebels trying to move on the capital, Tripoli, from territory they hold in eastern Libya. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla) (AP)

Gadhafi showers strategic oil port with rockets

Paul Schemm

Anti-Libyan Leader Moammar Gadhafi rebel, mans an anti-aircraft machine gun, as a pall of smoke and flames rises from a fuel storage depot that was attacked during fighting against pro-Moammar Gadhafi fighters, in Sedra, eastern Libya, on Wednesday March 9, 2011. Gadhafi appears to be keeping up the momentum he has seized in recent days in his fight against rebels trying to move on the capital, Tripoli, from territory they hold in eastern Libya. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla) (AP)

Oil fields ablaze in Libya as battles rage

Maggie Michael, Paul Schemm

This video image taken from Libyan state television broadcast on Wednesday March 9, 2011 shows Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi addressing supporters in Tripoli, Libya. (AP Photo/Libyan state television via APTN) LIBYA OUT, TV OUT (AP)

Libya official flies to Egypt with Gadhafi message

Maggie Michael, Paul Schemm

Anti-Gadhafi rebels drive a vehicle forward as smoke rises following an air strike by pro-Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi warplanes that attacked a highway leading to the town of Ras Lanouf, eastern Libya, Tuesday, March 8, 2011. Libyan warplanes launched at least three new airstrikes Tuesday near rebel positions in the oil port of Ras Lanouf, keeping up a counteroffensive to prevent the opposition from advancing toward leader Moammar Gadhafi's stronghold in the capital Tripoli. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla) (AP)

Gadhafi airstrikes hammer rebels on eastern front

Maggie Michael, Paul Schemm

An anti-Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi rebel, holds his anti-aircraft missile as he looks to the sky, in the oil town of Ras Lanouf, eastern Libya, Sunday, March 6, 2011. Thousands of Moammar Gadhafi's supporters poured into the streets of Tripoli on Sunday, waving flags and firing their guns in the air in the Libyan leader's main stronghold. Earlier, the city woke to the crackle of heavy machine-gun fire that rattled the capital before dawn.(AP Photo/Hussein Malla) (AP)

Against Libya’s rebels, Gadhafi controls the skies

Ryan Lucas, Paul Schemm

Pro-Gadhafi soldiers and supporters gather to celebrate in Green Square, Tripoli, Libya Sunday, March 6, 2011. Thousands of Moammar Gadhafi's supporters poured into the streets of Tripoli on Sunday morning, waving flags and firing their guns in the air in the Libyan leader's main stronghold, claiming overnight military successes. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis) (AP)

Libyan airstrikes halt rebel advance on capital

Paul Schemm

Pro-Gadhafi soldiers and supporters gather to celebrate in Green Square, Tripoli, Libya Sunday, March 6, 2011. Thousands of Moammar Gadhafi's supporters poured into the streets of Tripoli on Sunday morning, waving flags and firing their guns in the air in the Libyan leader's main stronghold, claiming overnight military successes. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis) (AP)

Libya forces launch new counteroffensive on rebels

Maggie Michael, Paul Schemm

Libyan rebels who are part of the forces against Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi celebrate after capturing the oil town of Ras Lanuf, in eastern Libya, Saturday, March 5, 2011. Witnesses say Libyan rebels have captured the oil port town of Ras Lanouf from pro-Moammar Gadhafi forces, their first military victory in what could be a long, westward march to the capital Tripoli. The witnesses said on Saturday that Ras Lanouf, about 87 miles (140 kilometers) east of the Gadhafi stronghold of Sirte, fell in rebel hands Friday night after a fierce battle with pro-regime forces who later fled. (AP Photo/Kevin Frayer) (AP)

Frontlines hard to find in Libya’s struggle

Paul Schemm

Gadhafi lays siege on Zawiya, rebels call it a massacre

Maggie Michael, Paul Schemm

A Libyan rebel celebrates next to a burn pro-Moaamar Gadhafi fighters vehicle in the town of Brega, east of Libya, oWednesday March 2, 2011. Regime opponents battled forces loyal to Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi who tried Wednesday to retake a key oil installation in a counteroffensive Wednesday against the rebel-held eastern half of the country. At one point in the flip-flopping battle, anti-Gadhafi fighters cornered the attackers in a nearby seaside university campus in fierce fighting that killed at least five. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla) (AP)

Libyan warplanes strike rebel-held oil port

Paul Schemm

This video image taken from Libyan state television broadcast Wednesday March 2, 2011 shows Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi addressing supporters and journalists in Tripoli, Libya. (AP Photo/Libyan state television via APTN) LIBYA OUT, TV OUT (AP)

Gadhafi vows to fight to last man in Libya

Maggie Michael, Paul Schemm

New Libyan rebel recruits from the forces against Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi push an anti-aircraft gun at a military base in Benghazi, eastern Libya, Tuesday, March 1 , 2011. (AP Photo/Kevin Frayer) (AP)

Rebels battle Gadhafi forces over Libyan oil port

Maggie Michael, Paul Schemm

Egyptians, who used to work in Libya, and fled the unrest in the country, wait for their breakfast in a makeshift refugee camp set up by the Tunisian army, at the Tunisia-Libyan border, in Ras Ajdir, Tunisia, Friday, Feb. 25, 2011. (AP Photo/Lefteris Pitarakis) (AP)

Protesters hit by hail of gunfire in Libya march

Bassem Mroue, Paul Schemm

Gadhafi tells followers to defend the nation

Bassem Mroue, Paul Schemm

A Libyan doctor treats a wonded man who was injured last week during the demostration against Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi, in Benghazi, Libya, on Thursday Feb. 24, 20011. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla) (AP)

Gadhafi forces strike back at opponents in Libya

Maggie Michael, Paul Schemm

Thousands of Egyptian anti-government protesters march Alexandria, Egypt, Friday, Feb. 11, 2011. Egypt's military threw its weight Friday behind President Hosni Mubarak's plan to stay in office through September elections while protesters fanned out to the presidential palace in Cairo and other key symbols of the authoritarian regime in a new push to force the leader to step down immediately. The statement by the Armed Forces Supreme Council - its second in two days - was a blow to many protesters who had called on the military to take action to push out Mubarak after his latest refusal to step down. (AP Photo/ Tarek Fawzy) (AP)

Democracy protests bring down Egypt’s Mubarak

Maggie Michael, Paul Schemm

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