The Arab Revolution of 2011
A policewoman uses a bomb-sniffer dog to check a vehicle as policeman looks on during a training course at a police academy in Kerbala, 80 km (50 miles) southwest of Baghdad April 27, 2011. Credit: Reuters/Mushtaq Muhammed
Osama bin-Laden addresses a news conference in Afghanistan in this May 26, 1998 file photo.
Anti-government protesters shout slogans during a rally to demand the ouster of Yemen's President Ali Abdullah Saleh in Sanaa May 1, 2011. Credit: Reuters/Ammar Awad
A relative of Ahmad Saleh, who died on Saturday after being wounded in clashes with Yemeni security forces last week, cries during his funeral procession at the site of a demonstration demanding the Credit: Reuters/Ammar Awad
Anti-government protesters shout slogans as they march during a demonstration to demand the ouster of Yemen's President Ali Abdullah Saleh in the southern city of Taiz May 1, 2011. Credit: Reuters/Khaled Abdullah
Army soldiers stand guard at a barrier blocking a demonstration demanding the ouster of Yemen's President Ali Abdullah Salehin the southern city of Taiz May 1, 2011. Credit: Reuters/Khaled Abdullah
An army soldier stands guard at a barrier blocking a demonstration demanding the ouster of Yemen's President Ali Abdullah Saleh in the southern city of Taiz April 30, 2011. Credit: Reuters/Khaled Abdullah
Anti-government protesters gather at an army barrier blocking a demonstration demanding the ouster of Yemen's President Ali Abdullah Saleh in the southern city of Taiz April 30, 2011. Credit: Reuters/Khaled Abdullah By Mohammed Ghobari and Mohamed
An anti-government protester waves Yemen's national flag during a demonstration to demand the ouster of Yemen's President Ali Abdullah Saleh in the southern city of Taiz April 30, 2011. Credit: Reuters/Khaled Abdullah
An army soldier watches anti-government protesters shout slogans at a barrier blocking a demonstration demanding the ouster of Yemen's President Ali Abdullah Saleh in the southern city of Taiz April Credit: Reuters/Khaled Abdullah
A woman displays a message written on her palm as she attends a rally to demand the ouster of Yemen's President Ali Abdullah Saleh in the southern city of Taiz April 29, 2011. Credit: Reuters/Khaled Abdullah
Anti-government protesters sleep in a makeshift shelter at the site of a sit-in demanding the ouster of Yemen's President Ali Abdullah Saleh in the southern city of Taiz April 29, 2011. Credit: Reuters/Khaled Abdullah
Anti-government protesters perform the weekly Friday prayers during a rally to demand the ouster of Yemen's President Ali Abdullah Saleh in the southwestern city of Ibb April 29, 2011. Credit: Reuters/Stringer
A news ticker displays information on al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden's death in Pakistan as people attend a spontaneous celebration in New York's Times Square, May 2, 2011. Credit: Reuters/Chip East
Libyans attend the funeral of Saif al-Arab, the son of Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi, who was killed after air strikes by coalition forces last Saturday, at the El hani cemetery in Tripoli May 2, 2011 Photo by: AP
Jordanians protest in solidarity with the rebels in the Syrian town of Deraa. Photograph: Ali Jarekji/Reuters
Tens of thousands of Syrians gather for a pro-government rally at the central bank square in Damascus March 29, 2011. (Reuters Photo)
Syrians display a giant national flag with a picture of Syria's President Bashar al-Assad during a pro-government rally at the central bank square in Damascus March 29, 2011. (Reuters Photo)
Libyan rebels shout slogans against Moamer Kadhafi at the site of a car bomb explosion, near their headquarters in their eastern bastion of Benghazi, on May 3. Moamer Kadhafi's government is mulling extending a deadline for rebels in Libya's third city Misrata to lay down their arms after the deputy foreign minister said scores had surrendered. (AFP/Saeed Khan)
Libyan rebels shout slogans against Moamer Kadhafi as they stand on the car which exploded not far from the headquarters of Libya's rebels in their eastern bastion of Benghazi on May 3. Kadhafi's government is mulling extending a deadline for rebels in Libya's third city Misrata to lay down their arms after the deputy foreign minister said scores had surrendered. (AFP/Saeed Khan)
Moamer Kadhafi's government is mulling extending a deadline for rebels in Libya's third city Misrata to lay down their arms after the deputy foreign minister said scores had surrendered. (AFP/Graphic)
A Libyan rebel loads bullets into a machine gun at the front line in Al-Ghiran, near Misrata airport, on April 29. Moamer Kadhafi's government is mulling extending a deadline for rebels in Libya's third city Misrata to lay down their arms after the deputy foreign minister said scores had surrendered. (AFP/Christophe Simon)
A man signs a petition to support the Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi, in Belgrade, Serbia, Wednesday, May 4, 2011. Several dozen people gathered in Belgrade on Wednesday to show support for the Libyan leader. (AP Photo/Darko Vojinovic)
View of Moamer Kadhafi's house in the Gargur area of Tripoli after a NATO airstrike on April 30. Kadhafi's son was reportedly killed in the airstrike. French Foreign Minister Alain Juppe has said international forces are seeking to weaken but not to kill Libyan strongman Moamer Kadhafi by bombarding his strategic sites. (AFP/Mahmud Turkia)
In this April 30, 2011 file photo, Libyans carry coffins during a funeral of four Libyan rebel fighters in the besieged city of Misrata, Libya. It took five weeks of fierce street battles — on rooftops, in alleyways — for Misrata's inexperienced rebels to wrest control of their city's commercial heart back from forces loyal to Libyan ruler Moammar Gadhafi. When they finally succeeded in pushing government forces out of Libya's third-largest city in late April, it was the greatest head-to-head military victory yet in the uprising that threatens Gadhafi's 42-year hold on power. (AP Photo/Bernat Armangue, File)
