[caption id="attachment_55246734" align="alignnone" width="619"] A picture taken on January 7, 2013, shows the polluted skyline of the Iranian capital, Tehran. (AFP PHOTO/ATTA KENARE)[/caption]In…

[caption id="attachment_55246731" align="alignnone" width="620"] Tunisian people sit on stairs outside the theater on Habib Bourguiba Avenue on November 6, 2013, in Tunis. (FETHI BELAID/AFP/Getty…

Last year, a news report that allegedly said Iranian women training as “ninja assassins” was at the center of a row that saw the news agency Reuters suspended in Iran, and a court case prosecuting…

[caption id="attachment_55246649" align="alignnone" width="594"] German Chancellor Angela Merkel leads Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan to the lectern for a statement following a ceremony…

[caption id="attachment_55246654" align="alignnone" width="620"] Iranians participating in demonstrations commemorating the 1979 storming of the US embassy in Tehran, Iran, on November 4, 2013. …

[caption id="attachment_55246626" align="alignnone" width="620"] Tehran's new Grand Musalla under construction. (Fars)[/caption]Despite Iran’s official title as an Islamic Republic, its capital is…

“Enough with physical attraction! Why should I have to submit to all these restrictions because of it?” The French revolutionary activist Théroigne de Méricourt angrily slammed the door and headed…

[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…