[caption id="attachment_55244949" align="aligncenter" width="620"]An Iranian policeman holds up a package of seized Afghan-made drugs during a media tour in the southeastern city of Zahedan on July…

[caption id="attachment_55244956" align="alignnone" width="620"] The US embassy in London. (Lefteris Pitarakis/AP)[/caption]Somewhere between 200 and 1,300 are said to have died in an alleged…

[caption id="attachment_55244838" align="alignnone" width="620"] A Yemeni man holds up a banner during a protest against US drone attacks on Yemen close to the home of Yemeni President Hadi, in the…

[caption id="attachment_55244818" align="aligncenter" width="620"] Trucks and APCs beloning to the Egyptian riot police are parked in the main street leading to Egypt's landmark Tahrir Square on…

[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…