President of the Kurdistan Region, Nechirvan Barzani (L), and the Prime Minister of Iraq, Mohammed Shia al-Sudani (R). (Photo: media office of the Iraqi PM)
Kurdistan Region President Nechirvan Barzani (R), and United Arab Emirates President Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan (L). (Photo: Kurdistan Region Presidency)
Iraq’s Foreign Minister Fuad Hussein (R), and Joshua Harris, Chargé d’Affaires of the United States Embassy in Iraq (L). (Photo: Iraqi Ministry of Foreign Affairs)
US Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth arrives for the inaugural Americas Counter Cartel Conference at the US Southern Command headquarters in Doral, Florida on Mar. 5, 2026. (AFP)
A vehicle equipped with a rocket launcher lies destroyed near the Khazir frontline after Peshmerga forces foiled a militia attempt to fire additional rockets toward Erbil, March 5, 2026. (Kuridstan24)
Satellite map of the Persian Gulf featuring a location marker for Mubarak Al Kabeer, Kuwait, and a highlighted area in the northern waters. (Photo: UKMTO)
Iraqis clash with security forces as they try to approach a bridge leading to the Green Zone where the US embassy is located, in Baghdad on March 1, 2026. (AFP)
Supporters of the Lebanese Shiite movement Hezbollah wave the flags of the group and of Iran and Iraq in Beirut's southern suburbs on Sep. 27, 2025. (AFP)
Rocket trails are seen in the sky above the city of Hebron, in the Israeli-occupied West Bank, amid a fresh barrage of Iranian missile attacks on Mar. 4, 2026. (AFP)
US President Donald Trump speaks during a meeting with German Chancellor Friedrich Merz in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, DC on Mar. 3, 2026. (AFP)