[caption id="attachment_55234256" align="alignnone" width="620"] Edward McMillan-Scott in Cairo [/caption]Historical perspective is a funny thing. In common with other countries, the British…

[caption id="attachment_55234247" align="alignnone" width="600"] President Obama and Speaker John Boehner's failure to reach a spending and revenue agreement would see automatic cuts to defense…

[caption id="attachment_55234130" align="alignnone" width="620"] Egypt secularists took to the streets of Cairo last year[/caption]On the evening of September 13, Alber Saber was sitting inside the…

[caption id="attachment_55234119" align="aligncenter" width="620"] Ambassador Christopher Stevens gives a speech at the US embassy in Libya in August 2012. Source: AFP/Getty Images[/caption] John…

[caption id="attachment_55234153" align="aligncenter" width="420"] A young protester holds a placard saying 'We love Prophet' during a protest against the anti-Islam film "Innocence of Muslims" in…

[caption id="attachment_55234090" align="alignnone" width="620"] Angry protests in the Middle East over a US made film mocking the prophet Muhammed[/caption]The first thing to do when you find…

[caption id="attachment_55234048" align="alignnone" width="620"] A huge blast rocks central Turkish province of Afyonkarahisar, on September 6, 2012.[/caption] Kilim [Kih-LIM] n. 1. A weaving…

[caption id="attachment_55234055" align="alignnone" width="620"] Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan [/caption] hedef göstermek [heh-DEF geuh-stair-MEK] v. to denounce, to point the finger…

[caption id="attachment_55234037" align="alignnone" width="620"] Former vice president of Syria, Abdul Halim Khaddam, pictured at his Paris residence in 2006. Source: Stéphane de Sakutin/AFP/Getty[…

[caption id="attachment_55234001" align="aligncenter" width="620"] The rubble of the World Trade Center smoulders following the 9/11 terrorist attack in New York[/caption] The Icarus Syndrome…