[caption id="attachment_55237946" align="aligncenter" width="620"] Former US Senator Chuck Hagel testifies before the Senate Armed Services Committee during his confirmation hearing to become the…

[caption id="attachment_55237952" align="alignnone" width="604"] Children playing next to a board reading, "Timbuktu is founded on Islam and will be judged by Islamic laws (Shari'a)", on January 31,…

[caption id="attachment_55237860" align="aligncenter" width="620"] Former US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton delivers her farewell address in the lobby of the State Department on February 1, 2013…

[caption id="attachment_55237835" align="aligncenter" width="620"] Two Afghan National Police keep watch on the outskirts of Herat, near the border between Afghanistan and Iran, on December 13, 2012…

[caption id="attachment_55237749" align="alignnone" width="620"] An armed man waves his rifle as buildings and cars are engulfed in flames after being set on fire inside the US consulate compound in…

[caption id="attachment_55237805" align="alignnone" width="620"] US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton at her final press interview in the Benjamin Franklin room of the State Deptartment on January…

[caption id="attachment_55237775" align="alignnone" width="620"] Egyptian President Mohamed Mursi.Source: KHALED DESOUKI/AFP/Getty Images[/caption] It has not been a good week for Egypt’s president,…

[caption id="attachment_55237605" align="aligncenter" width="620"] A Yemeni soldier mans a checkpoint in Sana'a on 23 January 2013. Source: MOHAMMED HUWAIS/AFP/Getty Images[/caption]Last month,…

[caption id="attachment_55237670" align="alignnone" width="620"] Jordanians vote in the parliamentary elections on 23 January 2013 in the city of Zarqa, Jordan as a portrait of King Abdullah II looks…

[caption id="attachment_55237589" align="alignnone" width="620"] A woman carrying her daughter waits with others to cast her vote during the referendum on the new Egyptian constitution. The results…