[caption id="attachment_55248380" align="alignnone" width="620"] Yemen's President Abd-Rabbuh Mansur Hadi (C) shows the book of the national dialogue at the end of a conference aimed at drafting a…

[caption id="attachment_55248406" align="alignnone" width="620"] Beirut's Ottoman-era Grand Serail, the seat of the Lebanese government. (Joseph Barrak/AFP/Getty Images)[/caption] Ten car bombings…

[caption id="attachment_55248373" align="alignnone" width="620"] Syrian-Kurdish refugees, Jvan Khaled and his wife Shekha, celebrate their wedding ceremony at the Kawergosk refugee camp in Iraqi…

[caption id="attachment_55248281" align="alignnone" width="620"] (FILES) Photo taken 01 February 1979 at Tehran airport of revolutionary leader Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini (C) leaving the Air France…

[caption id="attachment_55248228" align="alignnone" width="620"] Heavy clouds are seen over the center of Riyadh, on November 17, 2013. (FAYEZ NURELDINE/AFP/Getty Images)[/caption]Saudi Arabia has…

[caption id="attachment_55248305" align="alignnone" width="620"] Iran's president Hassan Rouhani addresses the World Economic Forum in Davos on January 23, 2014. (ERIC PIERMONT/AFP/Getty Images)[…

[caption id="attachment_55248297" align="alignnone" width="620"] Morocco's King Mohammed VI. (AZZOUZ BOUKALLOUCH/AFP/Getty Images)[/caption] Two weeks ago, Marrakesh hosted the 20th Al-Quds …

[caption id="attachment_55248290" align="alignnone" width="620"] US President Barack Obama waits to deliver his the State of the Union address before a joint session of Congress on January 28, 2014…

[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…