[caption id="attachment_55248263" align="alignnone" width="620"] Clashes between Libyan security forces and armed groups near Tripoli, Libya on January 21, 2014. (Hazem Turkia/Anadolu Agency/Getty…

[caption id="attachment_55248246" align="alignnone" width="620"] ‘The miraculous minaret’ no longer. (Tam Hussein)[/caption] A year ago the villages of Jebel Akrad were home to living, breathing…

[caption id="attachment_55248211" align="alignnone" width="620"] Traditional camel wrestling in Burhaniye district of Balikesir, Turkey on January 26, 2014. (Hakan Firik/Anadolu Agency/Getty Images)[…

[caption id="attachment_55248181" align="alignnone" width="620"] A United States Marine shakes hands with the leader of the Egyptian military band who is dressed in a Pharaoh contume October 23, 2001…

[caption id="attachment_55248199" align="alignnone" width="620"] Iran's Maryam Tousi (R) runs ahead of China's Jiang Xuanxuan (L) in the women's 400m round 1-heat 2 on the second day of the athletics…

[caption id="attachment_55248148" align="alignnone" width="620"] Mahmoud Hassino (L) at Sout Raya's studios in Istanbul. (Hannah Lucinda Smith)[/caption]Five years ago, Syrian radio host Mahmoud…

[caption id="attachment_55248127" align="alignnone" width="620"] Unidentified International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) inspectors (2nd and 3rd L) and Iranian technicians disconnect the connections…

[caption id="attachment_55248116" align="alignnone" width="620"] Qatari Foreign Minister Khaled al-Ateyya (L) sits during the opening ceremony of the second international humanitarin pledging…

[caption id="attachment_55248119" align="alignnone" width="620"] UN Secretary general Ban Ki-moon on the eve of the Geneva II conference. (Fabrice Coffrini/AFP/Getty Images)[/caption] So we are…

[caption id="attachment_55248097" align="alignnone" width="620"] A picture taken on January 20, 2014 in Montreux shows the place of the Iranian representative in the Syria peace conference (PHILIPPE…