[caption id="attachment_55247715" align="alignnone" width="620"] Activists mark the second anniversary of deadly violence outside the Cabinet headquarters two years ago in Cairo on December 16, 2013…

[caption id="attachment_55247601" align="alignnone" width="620"] Iranian President Hassan Rouhani waits to meet with Russian Foreign Minister in Tehran on December 11, 2013 (BEHROUZ MEHRI/AFP/Getty […

[caption id="attachment_55247743" align="alignnone" width="620"] Mohammed Badie (far left), leader of Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood movement seen with Tunisia's ruling Islamist Ennahda party Rachid…

[caption id="attachment_55247586" align="alignnone" width="620"] Yemeni President Abd Rabbuh Mansur Hadi (C) speaks during a session of Yemen's national dialogue in the Yemeni capital, Sana'a, on…

[caption id="attachment_55247644" align="alignnone" width="620"] US President Barack Obama at the James Brady Press Briefing Room of the White House December 5, 2013 in Washington, DC. Incumbent…

[caption id="attachment_55247425" align="alignnone" width="619"] A Syrian refugee girl uses a rope to climb a tree at the recently opened Vrazhdebna shelter in Bulgaria on October 29, 2013. (Dimitar…

[caption id="attachment_55247709" align="alignnone" width="620"] Turkey's Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan now has zero friends. (Ozan Kose/AFP/Getty Images)[/caption] The fall from grace of…

[caption id="attachment_55247700" align="alignnone" width="620"] Egyptian students who support the Muslim Brotherhood clash with riot policemen outside the University of Cairo campus in the capital…

[caption id="attachment_55247688" align="alignnone" width="620"] Iranian men sell watches along Vali Asr Avenue on December 7, 2013 in Tehran, Iran (Photo by Scott Peterson/Getty Images)[/caption] …

[caption id="attachment_55247671" align="alignnone" width="620"] A wave of attacks in Baghdad and north of the capital killed 91 people in the deadliest day in more than two years on July 23, 2012…