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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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West Asia
Bahraini anti-gov’t protesters take to a street waving images of those jailed or dead
A Bahraini anti-government protester carries a sign that reads: ‘we come out for the country,” as she walks to join a march in Manama, Bahrain, Thursday Feb. 7, 2013. Images of people who are jailed or have died in the past two years of a pro-democracy uprising seen on the…
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West Asia
Assassination of a leftist politician throws Tunisia into a political chaos
A family flees tear gas during a demonstration in Tunis, Thursday, Feb.7, 2013. The Islamist party dominating Tunisia’s ruling coalition on Thursday rejected its own prime minister’s decision to form a non-partisan technocratic government to try to appease critics, signaling that the political crisis brought on by the assassination of…
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West Asia
Israel deploys Iron Dome anti-rocket defense system along its border with Syria
A third battery of Iron Dome anti-rocket defense system is seen near Tiberias, north Israel, on Feb. 6, 2013. The Israeli Air Force deployed a third battery of the Iron Dome anti-rocket defense system in northern Israel on Tuesday amid heightened tensions along the country’s border with Syria, local media…
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