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File - In this Tuesday, April 30, 2013 photo, a Lebanese army soldier rides a motorcycle, and passes in front of Syrian flag, in the predominantly Alawite neighborhood of Jabal Mohsen in the northern port city of Tripoli, Lebanon.
Lebanon   Photos   Syria   War   Wikipedia: Lebanon–Syria relations		  BBC News 
Ten dead in sectarian clashes in Lebanon's Tripoli
Wed 22 May 2013
At least 10 people have died and 70 have been wounded in the latest round of sectarian violence in Lebanon's capital, Tripoli. Four people were killed overnight in fighting between Alawite... (photo: AP / Bilal Hussein)
Suspected members of the radical Islamist sect Boko Haram, are detained by the military, in Bukavu Barracks in Kano state, Nigeria, Wednesday, March 21, 2012.
Inmates   Islamic   Military   Nigeria   Photos   Wikipedia: Boko Haram		  San Francisco Chronicle 
Nigeria: Islamic extremist inmates to be released
Tue 21 May 2013
ENUGU, Nigeria (AP) — Nigeria's military said Tuesday that the West African nation would release some of the prisoners it has taken in the country's fight against Islamic extremists — including all... (photo: AP / Salisu Rabiu)
U.S. Deputy Defense Secretary Ashton B. Carter looks on as Iraqi Defense Minister Sadun Farhan al-Dulaymi addresses the media after a counterpart visit in Baghdad, Oct. 18, 2012.  Voa News  Tue 21 May 2013
Iraqi PM Orders Security Shakeup as Violence Surges
Iraq's Shi'ite Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki has ordered a shakeup of senior government security officers, as a weeks-long wave of violence grips the country and fears of all-out sectarian war... (photo: US DoD / U.S. Navy Petty Officer 1st Class Chad J. McNeeley)
Car Bombings   Iraq   Photos   Security   Wikipedia: May 2013 Iraq attacks
Palestinians take part in a protest against the reduction of some of the financial and food aid services given by the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) to Palestine refugees, in Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip on April 9, 2013. Photo by Ahmed Deeb / WN  Huffington Post  Tue 21 May 2013
Review: Doing Bad by Doing Good: Why Humanitarian Action Fails
If Christopher Coyne's new book, Doing Bad by Doing Good: Why Humanitarian Action Fails needed a subtitle, I'd be willing to offer up "We Meant Well, Too." Coyne's book puts into formal terms what I... (photo: WN / Ahmed Deeb)
Aid   Humanitarian   Photos   Wikipedia: World Food Programme   World
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People gather around a destroyed shop at the scene of a car bomb attack in Baghdad, Iraq, Thursday, Jan. 27, 2011. A car bomb ripped through a funeral tent in a mainly Shiite area of Baghdad on Thursday, killing and wounding scores of people and prompting scuffles between police and Iraqis angry about security failures. my SA Tue 21 May 2013
Car bomb, other attacks kill 20 in Iraq
BAGHDAD (AP) — A car bomb exploded as Sunni worshippers were leaving a mosque after evening prayers Tuesday in Baghdad, the deadliest in a string of attacks that killed... (photo: AP / Khalid Mohammed)
Car Bombings   Iraq   Photos   Terrorism   Wikipedia: May 2013 Iraq attacks
Algerian President Abdelaziz Bouteflika addresses supporters at a rally in the capital, Algiers, Thursday Feb. 12, 2009. Bouteflika said he will run for a third term in April elections. Bouteflika had been widely expected to run again despite persistent concerns about his health in recent years. Baltimore Sun Tue 21 May 2013
Algeria's Bouteflika convalescing in France
ALGIERS (Reuters) - Algeria's prime minister, reacting to reports that President Abdelaziz Bouteflika is seriously ill, said the 76-year-old was recovering in France but... (photo: AP / Alfred de Montesquiou)
Abdelaziz Bouteflika   Algeria   France   Photos   Wikipedia: Abdelaziz Bouteflika
In this Sunday, March 10, 2013 photo, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, left, holds hands with chief of staff Esfandiari Rahim Mashaei, during a press conference in Tehran, Iran. Reuters Tue 21 May 2013
Rafsanjani, Ahmadinejad ally barred from Iran election
DUBAI (Reuters) - Iranian authorities on Tuesday barred former President Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, a relative moderate, from running in the June 14 election, along with a... (photo: AP / Mohammad Hassanzadeh)
Ali Akbar Rafsanjani   Elections   Esfandiar Rahim Mashaei   Iran   Photos   Wikipedia: Iranian presidential election, 2013
Head of the Iran's Experts Assembly Ayatollah Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, delivers his speech, during a meeting of the assembly, a powerful clerical panel charged with choosing or dismissing Iran's supreme leader, in Tehran, Iran, Tuesday, Feb. 23, 2010. Al Jazeera Tue 21 May 2013
Two key candidates barred from Iran election
Iran's electoral watchdog has barred former President Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani and a close aide to president Mahmoud Ahadinejad from running in the June 14 presidential... (photo: AP / Vahid Salemi)
Election   Iran   Photos   Politics   Wikipedia: Iranian presidential election, 2013
An Iraqi woman, who sells milk, passes by the scene of a car bomb attack in the Kamaliyah neighborhood, a predominantly Shiite area of eastern Baghdad, Iraq, Monday, May 20, 2013. The Guardian Tue 21 May 2013
Sectarian attacks in Iraq stoked by spillover from Syrian war
Ability of prime minister Nouri al-Maliki to contain crisis may hinge on events beyond his control Sectarian struggle ... an Iraqi woman passes by the scene of a car bomb... (photo: AP / Hadi Mizban)
Iraq   Photos   Syria   War   Wikipedia: Syrian civil war
Mourners pray over the two bodies killed in a car bomb attack before their burial in the holy Shiite city of Najaf, 160 kilometers (100 miles) south of Baghdad, Iraq, Monday, May 20, 2013. A wave of car bombings across Baghdad's Shiite neighborhoods and in the southern city of Basra killed and wounded dozens of people, police said. The Star Tue 21 May 2013
Bombings in Iraq kill at least 12
KIRKUK, Iraq (Reuters) - Several bomb blasts killed at least 12 people in Iraq on Tuesday, police said, a day after more than 70 died in attacks on majority Shi'ites,... (photo: AP / Alaa al-Marjani)
Bombing   Iraq   Photos   Terrorism   Wikipedia: Bomb


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File - Workers drilling for oil on Lake Maracaibo, Venezuela. Fuelling geopolitics: The oil saga Al Jazeera
File - Sudanese president Omar al-Bashir, left, walks past the Sudanese honour guard with South Sudan's resident Salva Kiir, right, after his arrival in Khartoum, Sudan, Saturday, Oct.8, 2011. Sudan, South Sudan to open border, resume oil Herald Tribune
File - South Sudanese President Salva Kiir addresses his country’s national assembly, known as August House, urging it to halt all oil production in South Sudan, 23 January, 2012. Sudan's President Bashir meets South Sudan's Kiir BBC News
The Wall Street area from the air in 2009.In the first year of the new century, the Big Board, as some termed the NYSE, was described as the world's "largest and most prestigious stock market." Markets Live: Investors wary after Cyprus deal Canberra Times
Nuclear Watch
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad gestures to his supporters during a rally organized by Hezbollah in the southern border town of Bint Jbeil, Lebanon, on Thursday Oct. 14, 2010. Iran's President Visits Uranium-rich Niger The Street
Iran's former nuclear negotiator, Hasan Rohani, a potential front-runner in the presidential race, speaks at a campaign rally in Tehran, Iran, Thursday, April 11, 2013. Rohani suggested he would seek better relations with the West in efforts to lessen international showdowns. Iran candidate vows 'constructive' diplomacy my SA
Senate Foreign Relations Chairman Sen. John Kerry, D-Mass., sits before the committee he has served on for 28 years and led for the past four as he seeks confirmation as U.S. secretary of state, on Capitol Hill in Washington. New U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry and his South Korean counterpart have agreed to make sure North Korea is punished if it carries out its threat to conduct a nuclear test. Amid signs that such a test is coming, South Korea's president also speculated that Pyongyang may detonate multiple atomic devices simultaneously. Kerry says nuclear talks still will be sought with Iran The Columbus Dispatch
President Barack Obama talks alone with General Martin Dempsey, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff after attending the Armed Forces Farewell Tribute in honor of Defense Secretary Leon Panetta at Joint Base Myer-Henderson in Arlington, Virginia, Feb. 8, 2013. Obama's choice: Real diplomacy (or war) with Iran Al Jazeera
Warfare
An X-47B Unmanned Combat Air System (UCAS) demonstrator conducts a touch and go landing on the flight deck of the aircraft carrier USS George H.W. Bush (CVN 77), marking the first time any unmanned aircraft has completed a touch and go landing at sea, 17 May, 2013. Justice in the Age of Drone Terror WorldNews.com
People inspect the scene of a bomb attack in Kazimiyah in the north of Baghdad, Iraq, Thursday, Jan. 5, 2012. Wave of explosions struck two Shiite neighborhoods on Thursday, killing and injuring dozens of Iraqis, police said, and intensifying fears that insurgents are stepping up attacks after the U.S. troop withdrawal that was completed last month. (AP Photo/Hadi Mizban) Wave of attacks kills at least 95 in Iraq The Times of India
President Barack Obama arrives at a rally for New Jersey Gov. Jon Corzine, Thursday, July 16, 2009, in Holmdel, N.J. Is Obama's Government Too Big To Succeed? Business Insider
As a Blackhawak helicopter rumbles overhead, Deputy Secretary of Defense Ashton B. Carter speaks with BGen Ron Lewis, right, at Gambrei during a visit to forward bases in Afghanistan, May 13, 2013. Al Qaeda: Enemy or Asset? CounterPunch
Religion
Afghan women voters line up to cast their ballots at a polling station in Kabul Thursday Aug. 20, 2009. Afghans block law protecting women’s rights The Independent
File - Bangladeshi riot police officers stand guard outside the national mosque compound in Dhaka, Bangladesh, Friday, March 8, 2013. Police detain scores of Bangladesh's largest Islamic party Jamaat-e-Islami activists while they were trying to take to the streets after Friday prayers. Backlash feared as Bangladesh sentences Islamic politician Muhammad Kamaruzzaman to death The Independent
File - Israeli youths wave Israeli flags during a march celebrating Jerusalem Day in front Damascus Gate in Jerusalem's Old City, Sunday. May 20, 2012. The Six-Day War and the Reunification of Jerusalem The Washington Times
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