[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…

[caption id="attachment_55236398" align="aligncenter" width="619"] Dr. Nasser Saidi (Source: KAZUHIRO NOGI/AFP/Getty Images)[/caption] The downfall of Mubarak and Ben Ali and the explosion of…

[caption id="attachment_55236336" align="alignnone" width="620"] A general view shows burning flames from a gas well in Sailiya, 40km north of the Qatari capital Doha. Source: AFP/Getty Images[…

[caption id="attachment_55235489" align="alignnone" width="594"] A boy stands next to a stall at Magra El-Oyoun market on January 24, 2012, Cairo. Getty Images[/caption] Egypt’s worsening economic…

[caption id="attachment_55234614" align="aligncenter" width="620"] 15th February 1955: A twelve-year-old Sea Cadet trying out a new Sterling Sub-Machine Gun, the weapon at the center of James…

[caption id="attachment_55234515" align="alignnone" width="620"] An Iraqi oil worker works at Al-Doura oil refinery [/caption]Iraq could become the second-largest oil exporter in the world by the…