[caption id="attachment_55242342" align="alignnone" width="620"] Thousands of people gather in Taksim Square after the government said it would clear…

[caption id="attachment_55242347" align="alignnone" width="620"] An Egyptian man distributes a petition sheet for Tamarod's campaign on May 17, 2013…

[caption id="attachment_55242321" align="alignnone" width="620"] Israeli settlements and the separation wall in the West Bank village of Nilin. …

[caption id="attachment_55242308" align="alignnone" width="620"] Khalid Azizi, the secretary-general of the Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP) of Iran…

[caption id="attachment_55242290" align="alignnone" width="620"] A demonstration outside the Egyptian High Court in Cairo on April 17, 2013…

[caption id="attachment_55242282" align="aligncenter" width="620"] Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad (R) and Esfandiar Rahim Mashaei (L) flash…

[caption id="attachment_55242269" align="aligncenter" width="620"] People seen shopping outside Tehran's main bazaar on June 2, 2013 in Tehran, Iran…

[caption id="attachment_55242258" align="aligncenter" width="620"] Yemen's human rights minister, Huriya Mashour, answers journalists' questions. She…

[caption id="attachment_55242249" align="aligncenter" width="620"] US president Barack Obama (2nd L), former aide Samantha Power (R), US ambassador…

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