[caption id="attachment_55241324" align="aligncenter" width="620"] China's Jiang Jemin (L), CEO of CNPC, shakes hands with Dia Jaafar, the head of the Iraqi South Oil Company, as Iraq's oil minister…

[caption id="attachment_55241018" align="aligncenter" width="620"] Iranians work on a section of the Iran–Pakistan pipeline after the project was launched during a ceremony with presidents of Iran…

[caption id="attachment_55240425" align="aligncenter" width="620"] UAE officials look from a balcony at the Shams 1 concentrated solar power plant on the outskirts of Abu Dhabi, on March 17, 2013,…

[caption id="attachment_55240043" align="alignnone" width="620"] High-tension electrical power lines dot the desert landscape in this cityscape photo of Dubai, United Arab Emirates, taken in 2008…

[caption id="attachment_55239615" align="alignnone" width="594"] An Iraqi boy wearing a Manchester United jersey looks at a toy made by students for a science project exhibition at Al-Mutamayizin…

[caption id="attachment_55239097" align="alignnone" width="620"] An Iraqi worker adjusts a control valve at the Daura oil refinery on November 5, 2009, the day Iraq and a grouping of US and European…

[caption id="attachment_55237897" align="alignnone" width="620"] Source: MARWAN NAAMANI/AFP/Getty Images[/caption] In the year 1963, Egyptian economist Ahmed El-Najjar started a quiet revolution in…

[caption id="attachment_55237295" align="alignnone" width="620"] German Foreign Minsiter Guido Westerwelle and Libyan Foreign Minister Ashour bin Khayal. Source: dw.de[/caption]For Europe, the past…

[caption id="attachment_55236802" align="aligncenter" width="619"] Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan (2nd L), the first Turkish premier to visit the autonomous Kurdistan region of Iraq, and…

[caption id="attachment_55236778" align="aligncenter" width="616"] Damage in a section of the souk in the old city of Aleppo after the area was shelled by Syrian regime forces on September 30, 2012…