Vice President Biden and Turkish Prime Minister Binali Yildirim hold a news conference after meeting Aug. 24 in Ankara, Turkey. While the U.S. and Turkey are close allies, they've been at odds on a number of issues, and the meeting was designed to improve the atmosphere. Adem Altan/AFP/Getty Images hide caption
The Idaho Correctional Center south of Boise, Idaho, is a contract facility operated by Corrections Corporation of America. The Justice Department says it is phasing out its relationships with private prisons after a recent audit found they have more safety and security problems than ones run by the government. Charlie Litchfield/AP hide caption
Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump will receive his first classified intelligence briefing on Wednesday. Michael Conroy/AP hide caption
Xiaoxing Xi, a Temple University physics professor, speaks in front of a photo of Sherry Chen, a federal government worker, at a September 2015 Washington, D.C., press conference about the spying charges against them that were dropped. Xi says his wife and daughters were marched out of their bedrooms at gunpoint when he was arrested in May 2015. Saul Loeb/AFP/Getty Images hide caption
Afghan soldiers inspect a destroyed vehicle after an operation in Nangarhar province, Afghanistan, on July 26, the day the Pentagon says a drone strike killed the leader of the Islamic State in the region. Noorullah Shirzada/AFP/Getty Images hide caption
Jameel Jaffer, deputy legal director of the American Civil Liberties Union, listens during a hearing of the Senate Judiciary Committee on Capitol Hill, in July 2013. Brendan Smialowski/AFP/Getty Images hide caption
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange addresses the media from the Ecuadorian embassy in central London in February. Jack Taylor/AFP/Getty Images hide caption
Nicholas Rasmussen, director of the National Counterterrorism Center, says progress against the Islamic State may be slow to affect the terror attacks plaguing the West. Ariel Zambelich/NPR hide caption
Pat Smith speaks during the Republican National Convention in Cleveland last month. Smith's son Sean was killed in an attack on the U.S. Consulate in Benghazi, Libya, in 2012. Bloomberg via Getty Images hide caption
Yemenis gather around a burnt car after it was targeted by a drone strike killing three suspected al-Qaida militants in January 2015. AFP/Getty Images hide caption
President Obama speaks to reporters after meeting his National Security Council at the Pentagon on Thursday. Mark Wilson/Getty Images hide caption
President Obama speaks to the media after a meeting with Secretary of Defense Ashton Carter and members of the Joint Chiefs of Staff at the Pentagon on Thursday in Arlington, Va. Mark Wilson/Getty Images hide caption