[caption id="attachment_55249839" align="alignnone" width="620"] Catherine Ashton, the EU foreign policy chief, and Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad…

[caption id="attachment_55249817" align="alignnone" width="620"] An Egyptian soldier stands guard on a watchtower near the border between Egypt and…

[caption id="attachment_55249826" align="aligncenter" width="620"] Mostafa El-Razzaz stands in front of one of his paintings at his latest exhibition…

[caption id="attachment_55249813" align="alignnone" width="620"] A seismic vessel is pictured off the coast of Lebanon on September 24, 2012. Seismic…

[caption id="attachment_55249794" align="alignnone" width="616"] Iraqi Turkmen Front leader Arshad Al-Salihi shows his ink-stained finger after…

[caption id="attachment_55249773" align="alignnone" width="620"] A woman looks at art by Syrian refugee children at an exhibition in Beirut on…

[caption id="attachment_55249776" align="alignnone" width="620"] Algerian men walk in front of electoral posters for Ali Benflis on April 13, 2014. …

[caption id="attachment_55249770" align="alignnone" width="620"] A combination of file pictures shows Iran's supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei (L…

[caption id="attachment_55249764" align="alignnone" width="620"] Iraqi Kurdish anti-government protesters march in the city of Sulaimaniyah on…

[caption id="attachment_55249735" align="alignnone" width="620"] Syrian soldiers wave as they leave Lebanon on April 26, 2005, in Masnaa. (Joseph…