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West Asia
Supporters of Mubarak stage rally on second anniversary of his ouster in Cairo
Supporters of former Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak display his photographs during a small rally on the second anniversary of his stepping down from power in front of the Mostafa Mahmoud Mosque in Cairo, Egypt, Monday, Feb. 11, 2013. Egypt has been gripped by political turmoil since Mubarak’s ouster in the…
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West Asia
Assad meets with his supporters when rebels captured Syria’s largest dam
In this photo released by the Syrian official news agency SANA, Syrian President Bashar Assad, center left, meets with a delegation of Jordanian political activists, lawyers, doctors and engineers in support of him, in Damascus, Syria, Monday, Feb. 11, 2013. Syrian rebels captured the country’s largest dam on Monday after…
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West Asia
Palestinians register their names at voter registration stations in their territories
Palestinians wait to register their names at a voter registration center in Gaza City on Feb. 11, 2013. Voter registration stations opened Monday in the Palestinian territories, including the Gaza Strip for the first time since Islamic Hamas movement seized control of the area in 2007. Palestinian women register their…
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West Asia
A Syrian woman sit on the ruins of her house destroyed by gov’t airstrike
In this Wednesday, Feb. 6, 2013 photo, a Syrian woman sits on the ruins of her house, which was destroyed in an airstrike by government warplanes a few days earlier, killing 11 members of her family, in the neighborhood of Ansari, Aleppo, Syria. <AP Photo/NEWSis/Abdullah al-Yassin>
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West Asia
An Iranian woman prays at grave of her husband killed during Islamic Revolution
An Iranian woman, right, decorates the grave of her son, who was killed during 1980-88 Iran-Iraq war, as she is assisted by her daughter, in Behesht-e-Zahra cemetery, just outside Tehran, Iran, Thursday Feb. 7, 2013, during a ceremony commemorating the34th anniversary of the Islamic Revolution which led to the ouster…
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West Asia
Egyptian FM, OIC secretary general speak in press conference after the OIC summit in Cairo
Egyptian Foreign Minister Mohamed Kamel Amr (L) and Secretary General of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) Ekmeleddin Ihsanoglu attend a press conference after the closing of the 12th summit of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) in Cairo, capital of Egypt, on Feb. 7, 2013. The two-day meeting closed…
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West Asia
Ahmadinejad visits Egypt amid warming relationship between the two nations
Iran’s President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad speaks to the media as he arrives at a press conference at the end of a two-day summit, in Cairo, Egypt, Thursday, Feb. 7, 2013. The summit witnessed the first visit of an Iranian president to Egypt in more than three years, as Egypt’s Islamist government…
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West Asia
Nothing accomplished but to have elected a new president
The title is “The governments’ accomplishments” and it shows a parrot saying the exact same thing which is the only accomplishent that was ever done through the past months which is “we have a new elected president” over and over again.
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West Asia
Egyptian PM put under criticism over his remarks about women in poor villages
In this Sunday, Dec. 30, 2012 file photo, Egyptian Prime Minister Hesham Kandil talks during a press conference at his office in Cairo, Egypt. Egypt’s prime minister caused an uproar after blaming health problems for babies in poor villages on women who nurse them without cleaning their breasts. Critics say…
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South Asia
Pakistani people protest against recent U.S. drone attack that killed five people
Pakistani people from tribal areas shout slogans as they march during a rally in Peshawar to protest U.S. drone attack, on Feb. 7, 2013. At least five people were killed and many others injured on Wednesday afternoon as U.S. drone attacked in Pakistan’s north-western tribal region of North Waziristan. <Xinhua/NEWSis/Ahmad…
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