[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…

[caption id="attachment_55235300" align="alignnone" width="620"] US Army soldiers operating under the NATO-sponsored International Security Assistance Force patrol along a dirt road in Kandahar…

[caption id="attachment_55235078" align="alignnone" width="594"] Barack Obama and Mitt Romney shake hands after the final presidential debate.[/caption]The final debate between America’s two…

[caption id="attachment_55235061" align="alignnone" width="620"] Rebels from the Free Syrian Army take a break from combat[/caption]Journalist Stephen Starr lived and worked in Damascus between 2007…