[caption id="attachment_55246541" align="alignnone" width="620"] An Iraqi youth checks a leather belt being made especially for the annual Shiite Muslim commemoration of Ashura with the saying…

[caption id="attachment_55246492" align="alignnone" width="594"] Lebanese fire fighters extinguish a flame at the site of a car bomb in a southern suburb of Beirut on August 15, 2013. (AFP/Getty…

[caption id="attachment_55246513" align="alignnone" width="620"] Yemeni students study for final exams under candlelight amid disruption of electricity up to 20 continuous hours a day in Sana'a on…

[caption id="attachment_55246415" align="alignnone" width="620"] US president Barack Obama speaks alongside King Abdullah Bin Abdulaziz Al Saud of Saudi Arabia during meetings in the Oval Office at…

[caption id="attachment_55246489" align="alignnone" width="594"] Egypt's 50-member constitution-drafting committee at their first meeting in Cairo on September 8, 2013. (AFP/Getty Images)[/caption…

[caption id="attachment_55246496" align="alignnone" width="620"] Libyan prime minister Ali Zeidan (L) and the head of the General National Congress, Nouri Bousahmein (R), give a press conference at…

[caption id="attachment_55246456" align="alignnone" width="620"] An Iranian border guard looks through a pair of binoculars to monitor a border area for drug trafficking activities on July 19, 2011,…

[caption id="attachment_55246397" align="alignnone" width="620"] Iranian President Hassan Rouhani, meets with United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon (not seen) on the sidelines of the United…

[caption id="attachment_55246377" align="alignnone" width="594"] Separate car bombs against displaced members of the Shabak community and industrial workers left 12 people dead in Bartala, Nineveh…

[caption id="attachment_55246321" align="alignnone" width="620"] Actors in the popular Turkish soap opera "Nour," Kıvanç Tatlıtuğ (L) and Songül Öden (R), attend the closing ceremony of the seventh…