[caption id="attachment_55237532" align="alignnone" width="620"] A Yemeni pro-democratic protestor shows her hands painted in the colors of her national flag and text reading in Arabic, "We want the…

[caption id="attachment_55237445" align="alignnone" width="620"] Anti-government protesters demonstrate in the western Iraqi city of Ramadi on 18 January 2013. Thousands of Sunni Muslims took to the…

[caption id="attachment_55237457" align="alignnone" width="620"] Flags are displayed on the US Capitol as preparations continue for the second inauguration of US President Barack Obama in Washington…

[caption id="attachment_55237465" align="aligncenter" width="620"] Syrians gather at the scene of an explosion outside Aleppo University on 15 January 2013. Eighty-seven people were killed and dozens…

[caption id="attachment_55237406" align="alignnone" width="620"]Iran’s president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, and Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez during a meeting. Source: JUAN BARRETO/AFP/Getty Images[…

[caption id="attachment_55237358" align="alignnone" width="620"] The Turkish Parliament in Ankara in May 2012, when it began work on a new constitution. Source: ADEM ALTAN/AFP/GettyImages[/caption] …

[caption id="attachment_55237319" align="alignnone" width="620"] Louay Sakka (R) is an executive member of the US-based Syrian Support Group. He often works out of an office space in his basement in…

[caption id="attachment_55237224" align="alignnone" width="620"] US President Barack Obama speaks during a news conference with John Brennan (R), and Chuck Hagel (L) on 7 January 2013 in Washington,…

[caption id="attachment_55237129" align="alignnone" width="620"] A Kurdish man wearing a t-shirt bearing the portrait of Kurdistan Worker's Party (PKK) jailed leader Abdullah Öçalan guards a…

[caption id="attachment_55237084" align="alignnone" width="620"] Former Speaker of the Iranian Parliament and reformist presidential candidate Mehdi Karroubi (L) and Iranian hardline President and…