[caption id="attachment_55250405" align="alignnone" width="620"] A Syrian Kurdish policeman patrols the border between Syria and Iraq in the oil-rich region of Hassakeh, on October 14, 2013. (FABIO…

[caption id="attachment_55250121" align="alignnone" width="620"] A view of construction on the pipeline between Iraqi Kurdistan and Turkey, taken in Dohuk on December 10, 2013.(Emrah Yorulmaz/Anadolu…

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

[caption id="attachment_55249585" align="alignnone" width="620"] Yemeni farmers sit near a patch of dry farmland in Sana'a, Yemen, on January 25, 2010. (Ed Ou/Getty Images)[/caption] Located in the…

[caption id="attachment_55249207" align="alignnone" width="620"] Syrians ride their bicycles past the Umayyad mosque in Damascus on January 17, 2014. (AFP Photo/Joseph Eid)[/caption] For the past…

[caption id="attachment_55248864" align="alignnone" width="620"] Ali Griri in his office in Kasserine. (Eileen Byrne)[/caption] From his comfortable new office, with its black leather upholstered…

[caption id="attachment_55248547" align="alignnone" width="620"] Egyptian newlyweds Aisha and Mohammed join celebrations at Cairo's Tahrir Square after President Hosni Mubarak stepped down on…

[caption id="attachment_55248001" align="alignnone" width="620"]Workers at the Iran Khodro car manufacturing plant make Iranian car models, as well as vehicles under license of the French company…

[caption id="attachment_55247339" align="alignnone" width="620"] A Libyan security officer walks by an oil drill on March 23, 2013 at the Al-Ghani oil field, belonging to Libya's Harouge Oil…

[caption id="attachment_55247025" align="alignnone" width="620"] Employees prepare Arabic-style ice cream by beating it vigorously with enormous wooden mallets to crush any ice and remove any air at…