[caption id="attachment_55244737" align="alignnone" width="620"] Youths overlook the town of Hama, Syria, on April 1, 2011. Hama was the scene of the 1982 massacre of up to 30,000 citizens by the…

[caption id="attachment_55244726" align="alignnone" width="620"] Turkish foreign minister Ahmet Davutoğlu (L) meets with Iran's new president, Hassan Rouhani (R), at his office in Tehran on August 5,…

[caption id="attachment_55244700" align="aligncenter" width="620"] Iran's new president, Hassan Rouhani (R), is accompanied by former president Ali-Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani as he arrives for his…

[caption id="attachment_55244667" align="alignnone" width="594"] Lebanese security forces standing guard in front of the Radisson Martinez Hotel in Beirut where members of a Turkish Airlines crew are…

[caption id="attachment_55244662" align="alignnone" width="620"] Egyptian policemen inspect the car of a Coptic Christian priest killed in Al-Arish, north of the Sinai peninsula on July 6, 2013. (STR…

[caption id="attachment_55244637" align="alignnone" width="620"] A Yemeni soldier mans a checkpoint in Sanaa, on July 21, 2013 (Mohammed Huwais/AFP/Getty Images)[/caption] With the recent closure of…

[caption id="attachment_55244579" align="alignnone" width="620"] Sheikh Muhammad Al-Yaqoubi in 2010. (Courtesy of Sacred Knowledge, the Sheikh’s foundation.)[/caption]Whether the West likes it or not…

[caption id="attachment_55244586" align="alignnone" width="592"] An Ergenekon prisoner being driven in an armored police vehicle waves at protestors on August 5, 2013. (Ozan Kose/AFP/Getty Images)[…

[caption id="attachment_55244555" align="alignnone" width="620"] Nigel Kennedy and the Palestine Strings perform Vivaldi's "The Four Seasons" at the Royal Albert Hall, London on August 8, 2013. …

[caption id="attachment_55244494" align="alignnone" width="620"] Supporters of deposed Egyptian President Mohammed Mursi spray slogans on a wall during a march through the Nasr City district on the…