[caption id="attachment_55247595" align="alignnone" width="620"] A Saudi woman looks at her mobile as she walks through a coffee shop in the capital Riyadh on June 17, 2013. (FAYEZ NURELDINE/AFP…

[caption id="attachment_55247657" align="alignnone" width="620"] US Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel speaks to troops gathered on December 10, 2013 at Al-Udeid Airbase, Qatar. (Mark Wilson/Getty…

[caption id="attachment_55247724" align="alignnone" width="620"] Benghazi residents celebrates Martyrs' Day as they commemorate those who died during the 2011 Libyan revolution that toppled leader…

[caption id="attachment_55247719" align="alignnone" width="620"] Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan marches forward into 2014. (Cem Oksuz/Anadolu Agency/Getty Images)[/caption] Even before…

[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…