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Iran’s national football team coach Portuguese Carlos Queiroz (R) commands a training session at the Corinthians Training Center in Sao Paulo, Brazil on June 4, 2014. (AFP PHOTO/Miguel SCHINCARIOL)
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Yemenis queue to fill their jerrycans with gasoline at a gas station in Sana’a, Yemen, on May 13, 2014. (Sinan Yiter/Anadolu Agency/Getty Images)
Fueling Yemen’s Black Market
Yemen’s fuel crisis began in 2011, at the height of the Arab Spring, a time when political activists backed by Yemen’s opposition called for the immediate resignation of then-President Ali Abdullah Saleh. Back then, Yemen’s fuel crisis was seen as a byproduct of the...Caption:
Iraqi Shi’ite fighters salute to the shrine of Sayeda Zeinab, the granddaughter of Prophet Mohammad, in Sayeda Zainab area in Damascus on May 25, 2013. (Reuters/Alaa Al-Marjani)
Today’s Friends, Tomorrow’s Enemies?
The Syrian government’s capture of Homs, the so-called ‘capital of the revolution,’ and Bashar Al-Assad’s inevitable victory in the upcoming presidential “election” appear to put the regime in a stronger position than ever before—but have these short-term victories...Caption:
General Khalifa Haftar speaks during a news conference at a sports club in Abyar, a small town to the east of Benghazi. on May 17, 2014. (Reuters/Esam Omran Al-Fetori)
Rallying around the General
When supporters of Khalifa Haftar stormed the headquarters of the Libyan General National Congress (GNC) late last week, it was not so much a demonstration of his political power as it was a confirmation of the fundamental weakness of the central government—even...Caption:
An Iranian boy stands among Shi’ite Muslim worshippers attending the weekly Friday prayer on May 16, 2014, at the university of the Iranian capital, Tehran. (AFP PHOTO/ATTA KENARE)
Bigger is Better
Not too long ago, Iranian state television aired a documentary on what it said was an “exemplary family” and a “special home.” The family’s home was simple, as one would expect in a rural village in northwestern Iran. The family’s income, like that of most other...Caption:
Qatar’s Deputy Prime Minister Ahmed bin Abdullah al-Mahmud (C) chairs on April 28, 2014 a meeting of an international commission monitoring a limited peace deal in Sudan’s Darfur, in el-Fasher, northern Darfur. (AFP PHOTO/ASHRAF SHAZLY)