[caption id="attachment_55236076" align="alignnone" width="620"] Kurdish anti-Syrian government activists parade through the streets in celebration of the official declaration of liberation of the…

[caption id="attachment_55235949" align="alignnone" width="600"] Former Syrian General Akil Hashem[/caption] Twenty months into the uprising in Syria, with the death toll reportedly exceeding 37,000…

[caption id="attachment_55235862" align="alignnone" width="620"] Egyptian protesters throw stones towards Egyptian security forces during clashes in Cairo on November 21, 2012.[/caption] Downtown…

[caption id="attachment_55235579" align="alignnone" width="620"] A rebel fighter of the Free Syrian Army, cleans his weapon in an underground shelter in the town of Maarat al-Numan, Syria.[/caption…

[caption id="attachment_55235526" align="alignnone" width="620"]US President Richard Nixon and with National Security Advisor Henry Kissinger arrived in Tehran on 31 May 1972 and met with the Shah ©…

[caption id="attachment_55235479" align="alignnone" width="620"] Former British Prime Minister Tony Blair, Secretary Clinton, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon,…

[caption id="attachment_55235403" align="alignnone" width="620"] Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks during a meeting with US President Barack Obama in the Oval Office of the White House…

[caption id="attachment_55235355" align="alignleft" width="660"] Then-British Prime Minister Harold Wilson and US President Lyndon B. Johnson discussing NATO in 1966.[/caption] Perhaps one of the…

[caption id="attachment_55235336" align="alignnone" width="620"] President Barack Obama, center, casts his 2012 vote during early voting at the Martin Luther King Community Center in Chicago on 25…

He won—but he won ugly. The same US president who first captured the White House in poetry and governed in competent—if lackluster—prose has been re-elected despite an appallingly mean-spirited…