Tuesday Sept. 16: Our World In Pictures
MINNESOTA — Soldiers Return from Afghanistan: Leland Vang, 2, hugs his father Tee Vang at the Inver Grove Heights Training Center after his return from Afghanistan on Tuesday in Inver Grove Heights, Minn. More than 140 soldiers from the Minnesota National Guard’s Chisholm-based 114th Transportation Company returned to Minnesota after a nine-month deployment to Afghanistan.
WASHINGTON, D.C. — CodePink Activists Protest Against War: Members of the anti-war activist group CodePink interrupt a Senate Armed Services Committee hearing with Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel, left, and Army Gen. Martin Dempsey, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, on Capitol Hill in Washington on Tuesday. It is the first in a series of high-profile hearings that will measure congressional support for President Barack Obama’s strategy to combat Islamic State extremists in Iraq and Syria.