[caption id="attachment_55238420" align="alignnone" width="620"] Iraqi Kurdistan Prime Minister Nechirvan Barzani (L) and Turkey's Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoğlu shake hands on his arrival in…

[caption id="attachment_55238351" align="alignnone" width="620"] Syrian fighters from Lattakia entering Turkey. Source: Tam Hussein[/caption] The mountains Jebel Akrad (Mount of the Kurds) and Jebel…

[caption id="attachment_55238334" align="aligncenter" width="620"] US Secretary of State John Kerry. Source: US State Department[/caption]President Obama kicked off his second term in office with an…

[caption id="attachment_55238298" align="aligncenter" width="620"] A Mosque sits between office blocks in downtown Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates. SOURCE: David Davies/PA Archive/Press Association…

[caption id="attachment_55238268" align="aligncenter" width="620"] Sana'a, Yemen. June 12, 2012—Kalashnikovs belonging to Yemeni tribal leaders meeting to resolve local feuds. SOURCE: Sniperphoto…

[caption id="attachment_55238259" align="alignnone" width="620"] Black smoke rises into the sky just after a bus with Israeli tourists is bombed in Burgas, Bulgaria on July 18 2012. The Bulgarian…

[caption id="attachment_55238214" align="alignnone" width="620"] A man collects cartridge cases at a damaged police station after Islamist gunmen battled French and Malian troops. Source: PASCAL…

[caption id="attachment_55238180" align="alignnone" width="620"] Tunisians carry the coffin of assassinated opposition leader Chokri Belaid. Source: FETHI BELAID/AFP/Getty Images[/caption] A second…

[caption id="attachment_55238161" align="alignnone" width="620"] Syrian refugees gathered as Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan (not pictured) speaks during a meeting at Akçakale Refugee…

[caption id="attachment_55238121" align="alignnone" width="620"] An Egyptian riot policeman hits a protester during clashes near Cairo’s Tahrir Square on January 28, 2013. Source: MOHAMMED ABED/AFP…