[caption id="attachment_55232793" align="alignnone" width="620"] Sergei Lavrov speaks during a press conference at the UN offices in Geneva [/caption] Despite attempts by Hilary Clinton to woo her…

[caption id="attachment_55232764" align="alignnone" width="620"] Police in front of the court during the announcement that Egypt's parliament will be dissolved.[/caption] Just half an hour before…

[caption id="attachment_55232752" align="alignnone" width="620"] A supporter of Syria's President Bashar al-Assad holds a picture of him and Hezbollah's chief Hassan Nasrallah[/caption] The Crisis …

[caption id="attachment_55232709" align="aligncenter" width="620"] 20th March 1970: Saddam Hussein (right), Deputy Chairman of the Revolutionary Command Council and Assistant Secretary of the…

[caption id="attachment_55232748" align="aligncenter" width="620"] Fighters loyal to the Free Syrian Army (FSA) pose with their weapons in a location on the outskirts of Idlib in northwestern Syria…

[caption id="attachment_55232658" align="aligncenter" width="620"] Supports of Mohammed Morsi hold his portrait aloft[/caption]Five days have passed since Egypt held their run-off for the presidency…

[caption id="attachment_55232638" align="aligncenter" width="620"] An Egyptian supporter of the Muslim Brotherhood presidential candidate Mohamed Morsi holds a national flag during a rally in Cairo's…

[caption id="attachment_55232583" align="aligncenter" width="620"] French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius (L) speaks with Prime Minister and Foreign Affairs Minister Hamad Bin Jassim Bin Jabor Al…

[caption id="attachment_55232449" align="aligncenter" width="620" caption="Kuwait City, home to thousands of ex-patriates"][/caption]Referencing a quote from Gorky in his seminal work on the Russian…

[caption id="attachment_55232461" align="aligncenter" width="620" caption="G-8 leaders chat at a summit in 2010, but are such gatherings increasingly irrelevant?"][/caption]The future of the…