Photo of the day – May. 20, 2013

Syria – People run down a street in Deir al-Zor. REUTERS/Khalil Ashawi

Photo of the day – Apr. 06, 2013

A French soldier kept a lookout next to children in a street of Gao, Mali, Friday. (Joel Saget/AFP/Getty Images)

Photo of the day – Feb. 14, 2013

“Children fled with their family, which included a man holding a weapon, during a shelling in Aleppo, Syria, Wednesday.”! (Muzaffar Salman/Reuters)

Photo of the day – Feb. 13, 2013

Travelers on their way from Niamey, Niger, into Gao, Mali, stopped and waited in line to be searched. Malian soldiers scoured Gao on Monday for remnants of the radical Islamic fighters who engaged in an hourslong fight with French and Malian soldiers and eventually fled. (Jerome Delay/AP)

Photo of the day – Feb. 09, 2013

Mali – Street children got leftover food from a restaurant in Gao, Mali, Friday. (Jerome Delay/AP)

Photo of the day – Jan. 28, 2013

“A protester shows expended shotgun cartridges that he said were fired by riot police during clashes along Qasr Al Nil bridge, which leads to Tahrir Square in Cairo” REUTERS/Amr Abdallah Dalsh

Photo of the day – Jan. 26, 2013

“Coffins of Japanese people who were killed in the hostage crisis in Algeria were transported from a government aircraft on its arrival at Haneda airport in Tokyo Friday.” (Toru Hanai/Reuters)

Photo of the day – Jan. 22, 2013

“Niono, Mali: bystanders stand next to a French APC as a French Puma transport helicopter comes in to land” Jerome Delay/AP

Photo of the day – Dec. 08, 2012

A rebel fighter carried his son after Friday prayers in Aleppo, Syria. (Odd Andersen/AFP/Getty Images)

Photo of the day – Nov. 29, 2012

“Children were reflected in a puddle at the Mugunga camp for internally displaced people near Goma, Congo, Wednesday.” (Dai Kurokawa/EPA)