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Wed, 4 Sep 2013 15:32 PM

Majida Quteit, head of the Syrian Women's Union, hands a letter to the U.N. spokesperson in Syria, Khaled al-Masri (R), asking the U.N. to prevent the U.S. from launching a strike against Syria in Damascus, September 4, 2013. REUTERS/Kinda Makieh (SYRIA - Tags: POLITICS CIVIL UNREST CONFLICT)

Wed, 4 Sep 2013 15:25 PM

Women shout slogans while carrying Syrian national flags and pictures of Syria's President Bashar al-Assad during a sit-in organised by The Syrian Women's Union, outside the United Nations headquarters in Damascus, to protest against potential U.S. strikes on Syria, September 4, 2013. REUTERS/Kinda Makieh (SYRIA - Tags: POLITICS CIVIL UNREST CONFLICT)

Wed, 4 Sep 2013 14:44 PM

Palestinian women shout slogans during a protest near Lion's Gate in Jerusalem's Old City, as minor clashes take place at a nearby compound known to Muslims as Noble Sanctuary and to Jews as Temple Mount September 4, 2013. An Israeli police spokesperson said five people were detained on Wednesday for throwing stones at police who had entered the compound after stones were thrown at visitors at the holy site ahead of the Jewish new year, or Rosh Hashanah, which begins today at sundown. REUTERS/Ammar Awad (JERUSALEM - Tags: POLITICS RELIGION CIVIL UNREST)

Wed, 4 Sep 2013 10:17 AM

Women react near empty coffins as they wait to claim the bodies of their relatives, who were killed by gunmen, outside a hospital morgue in Mahmudiya, 30 km (19 miles) south of Baghdad, September 4, 2013. Gunmen shot dead 16 members of the same Shi'ite family before blowing up their two neighbouring homes south of the Iraqi capital overnight, police and medics said. The attack took place in the town of Latifiya, 40 km (25 miles) south of Baghdad. The dead included six children and eight women. REUTERS/Ibrahim Jassam (IRAQ - Tags - Tags: CIVIL UNREST POLITICS)

Wed, 4 Sep 2013 09:47 AM

Palestinian women protest near Lion's Gate in Jerusalem's Old City, as minor clashes take place at a nearby compound known to Muslims as Noble Sanctuary and to Jews as Temple Mount September 4, 2013. An Israeli police spokesperson said five people were detained on Wednesday for throwing stones at police who had entered the compound after stones were thrown at visitors at the holy site ahead of the Jewish new year, or Rosh Hashanah, which begins today at sundown. REUTERS/Baz Ratner (JERUSALEM - Tags: POLITICS RELIGION CIVIL UNREST)

Wed, 4 Sep 2013 09:31 AM

A girl watches as Palestinian women protest near Lion's Gate in Jerusalem's Old City, as minor clashes take place at a nearby compound known to Muslims as Noble Sanctuary and to Jews as Temple Mount September 4, 2013. An Israeli police spokesperson said five people were detained on Wednesday for throwing stones at police who had entered the compound after stones were thrown at visitors at the holy site ahead of the Jewish new year, or Rosh Hashanah, which begins today at sundown. REUTERS/Baz Ratner (JERUSALEM - Tags: POLITICS RELIGION CIVIL UNREST)