CAIRO (AP) — Maya Alleruzzo, a photographer who has covered wars in Iraq and Afghanistan during a 12-year stint in the region, has been named regional photo editor for the Middle East by The Associated Press. John Daniszewski, vice president and senior managing editor for international news at the AP, said: Alleruzzo has been helping audiences see the Middle East in all its complexities and triumphs and tragedies for the past decade. Alleruzzo was a founding member of AP's Middle East photo editing desk in Cairo in 2011 and oversaw coverage that included the Arab Spring, Israeli-Palestinian conflicts, the killing of Osama bin Laden and the Syrian war.