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Posted: 5/20/2013 1:22:14 PM EST
Secretary of State John Kerry speaks during a meeting with Brazilian Foreign Minister Antonio de Aguiar Patriota at the State Department in Washington Monday, May 20, 2013. Kerry is heading back to the Middle East this week to press his case for peace talks between Syrian rebels and President Bashar Assad's regime amid increasing signs the new U.S. strategy to halt the war is being undermined by Russia. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)
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Posted: 5/15/2013 3:20:08 PM EST
Turkish university students, who were protesting the explosions that killed tens of people in Reyhanli near the border with Syria last week, clashed with riot police at the Middle East Technical University in Ankara, Turkey, Wednesday, May 15, 2013.(AP Photo)
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Posted: 5/13/2013 9:43:07 AM EST
FILE - In this undated file image released by the British Health Protection Agency shows an electron microscope image of a coronavirus, part of a family of viruses that cause ailments including the common cold and SARS, which was first identified last year in the Middle East. Two respiratory viruses in different parts of the world have captured the attention of global health officials _ a novel coronavirus in the Middle East and a new bird flu spreading in China. Last week, the coronavirus related to SARS spread to France, where one patient who probably caught the disease in Dubai infected his hospital roommate. Officials are now trying to track down everyone who went on a tour group holiday to Dubai with the first patient as well as all contacts of the second patient. Since it was first spotted last year, the new coronavirus has infected 34 people, killing 18 of them. Nearly all had some connection to the Middle East. (AP Photo/Health Protection Agency, File)
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Posted: 5/11/2013 1:40:12 PM EST
Mohammed Nabouti, a 21-year-old technician, fixes the air conditioner of a shop in Amman, Jordan on Monday, March 4, 2013. Just six months of learning to fix air conditioners changed Nabouti's life. Instead of drifting after high school like many of his jobless friends, Nabouti has taken a small loan to start his own business and recently got engaged. Nabouti's story points to a quick fix the unemployment-stricken Middle East might try until deeper economic reforms can kick in, experts say. This quick fix includes job training, micro loans and help in setting up businesses. (AP Photo/Raad Adayleh)
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Posted: 5/11/2013 1:34:36 PM EST
Issam Khedri, 29, eldest brother of cigarette vendor Adel Khedri, tends to the cigarette stand of his late brother in the Tunisian capital, Tunis on Sunday, April 14, 2013. The difficulty of finding a job, especially for young people, had served as one of the main catalysts for the unrest in the Mideast. The International Labor Organization expects youth unemployment in the Middle East to increase by two percentage points, to 28.4 percent by 2017. (AP Photo/Ons Abid)
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Posted: 4/22/2013 11:58:29 AM EST
Azerbaijan's Foreign Minister Elmar Mammadyarov rekindles the Eternal flame at the Hall of Remembrance at the Yad Vashem Holocaust memorial in Jerusalem, Monday, April 22, 2013. Israel's president on Monday praised Azerbaijan for playing a key role in countering Iran's influence in the Middle East as the Muslim country's foreign minister visited the Jewish state for the first time. (AP Photo/Bernat Armangue)
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Posted: 4/22/2013 11:58:29 AM EST
Azerbaijan's Foreign Minister Elmar Mammadyarov, left, visits the Hall of Names at the Yad Vashem Holocaust memorial in Jerusalem, Monday, April 22, 2013. Israel's president on Monday praised Azerbaijan for playing a key role in countering Iran's influence in the Middle East as the Muslim country's foreign minister visited the Jewish state for the first time. (AP Photo/Bernat Armangue)
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Posted: 4/22/2013 11:58:29 AM EST
Azerbaijan's Foreign Minister Elmar Mammadyarov lays a wreath at the Hall of Remembrance at the Yad Vashem Holocaust memorial in Jerusalem, Monday, April 22, 2013. Israel's president on Monday praised Azerbaijan for playing a key role in countering Iran's influence in the Middle East as the Muslim country's foreign minister visited the Jewish state for the first time. (AP Photo/Bernat Armangue)
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Posted: 4/22/2013 11:53:52 AM EST
In this photo released by the Syrian official news agency SANA, Syrian President Bahsar Assad, center right, speaks during a meeting with Alaeddin Boroujerdi, center left, head of Iran's parliamentary committee on national interest and foreign policy, in Damascus, Syria, Monday, April 22, 2013. Assad said during the meeting that the Middle East is being subjected to plans that targets its stability and unity of its territories. (AP Photo/SANA)
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Posted: 4/22/2013 11:53:52 AM EST
In this photo released by the Syrian official news agency SANA, Syrian President Bahsar Assad, center, shakes hands with one of the Iran's parliamentary committee on national interest and foreign policy, in Damascus, Syria, Monday, April 22, 2013. Assad said during the meeting that the Middle East is being subjected to plans that targets its stability and unity of its territories. (AP Photo/SANA)
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Posted: 4/21/2013 6:23:25 AM EST
U.S. Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel gestures before boarding an aircraft for a trip Middle East region at Joint Base Andrews, April 20, 2013. REUTERS/Jim Watson/Pool
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Posted: 4/21/2013 6:23:25 AM EST
U.S. Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel boards an aircraft for a trip Middle East region at Joint Base Andrews April 20, 2013. REUTERS/Jim Watson/Pool
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Posted: 4/21/2013 6:23:25 AM EST
U.S. Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel gestures before boarding an aircraft for a trip Middle East region at Joint Base Andrews, April 20, 2013. REUTERS/Jim Watson/Pool
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Posted: 4/21/2013 6:23:25 AM EST
U.S. Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel boards an aircraft for a trip Middle East region at Joint Base Andrews April 20, 2013. REUTERS/Jim Watson/Pool
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Posted: 4/21/2013 6:23:25 AM EST
U.S. Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel gestures before boarding an aircraft for a trip Middle East region at Joint Base Andrews, April 20, 2013. REUTERS/Jim Watson/Pool
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Posted: 4/21/2013 6:23:25 AM EST
U.S. Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel boards an aircraft for a trip Middle East region at Joint Base Andrews April 20, 2013. REUTERS/Jim Watson/Pool
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Posted: 4/15/2013 3:58:33 PM EST
Associated Press photographer Khalil Hamra reacts after hearing that his photographs were part of an Associated Press team entry that won the Pulitzer prize for their photographs from Syria, in Cairo, Egypt, Monday, April 15, 2013. The Pulitzer in breaking news photography went to The Associated Press for its coverage of the civil war in Syria. Middle East Regional photo editor Manoocher Deghati applauds at right. (AP Photo/Nariman El-Mofty)
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Posted: 4/11/2013 12:33:58 PM EST
Middle East envoy Tony Blair pauses during an interview with Reuters in Jerusalem November 7, 2012. REUTERS/Ronen Zvulun
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Posted: 4/10/2013 6:18:36 AM EST
FILE - In this April 4, 2013 file photo, a FEMEN activist protest in front of the Tunisian Consulate in Milan, Thursday, April 4, 2013. The radical feminists, calling for more sexual freedom for Arab women, were protesting in support of a young Tunisian woman who received online death threats from ultraconservative Muslims after posting topless photos of herself online. Women's rights activists across the middle east fear the topless protests may hurt their cause more than help it. (AP Photo/Antonio Calanni, File)
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Posted: 4/10/2013 6:18:36 AM EST
This recent image from video provided by CAPA and Canal+ television on Monday April, 8, 2013 shows Tunisian Femen activist Amina. Bewilderment, scorn, resentment _ women’s rights activists across the Middle East are reacting with everything but joy to topless demonstrations in Europe by the Ukrainian feminist group FEMEN against oppression of women in Muslim countries. They fear the bare breasts may hurt their cause more than help it, after FEMEN activists protested in front of mosques and Tunisian embassies last week in solidarity with a Amina who caused a scandal in her own country when she posted topless photos of herself protesting religious oppression.(AP Photo/Benoit Chaumont and Akim Rezgui/ CAPA/Canal+)
