[caption id="attachment_55234371" align="alignnone" width="620"] (MARWAN NAAMANI/AFP/Getty Images)[/caption]Exactly a year after the breakout of the…

[caption id="attachment_55247121" align="alignnone" width="620"] Demonstration against Christians in Damascus, Syria, 1860. From July 9 to 11, 1860,…

[caption id="attachment_55246566" align="alignnone" width="620"] Lebanese Sheikh Hussein Zayat, a calligrapher copies out pages of the Muslim holy…

[caption id="attachment_55245467" align="alignnone" width="620"] US Secretary of State John Kerry speaks during a press conference after talks with…

[caption id="attachment_55242831" align="aligncenter" width="620"] An Egyptian protester holds a portrait of former Egyptian president Gamal Abdel…

[caption id="attachment_55242224" align="alignnone" width="620"] Acting president of the Syrian National Coalition (SNC) George Sabra (2nd-R) attends…

[caption id="attachment_55240969" align="alignnone" width="620"] Iraqi protesters shout slogans during a demonstration in the Iraqi city of Samarra…

[caption id="attachment_55239227" align="alignnone" width="620"] The town of Hama in Syria. Hama was the scene of the 1982 massacre of up to 30,000…

[caption id="attachment_55237670" align="alignnone" width="620"] Jordanians vote in the parliamentary elections on 23 January 2013 in the city of…

[caption id="attachment_55237129" align="alignnone" width="620"] A Kurdish man wearing a t-shirt bearing the portrait of Kurdistan Worker's Party …