U.S. President Donald Trump speaks with reporters prior to boarding Marine One as he departs from the South Lawn of the White House in Washington, DC, on April 11, 2026. (Photo: AFP)
Map view showing the distance between Yanbu on the Red Sea coast and Al-Jubail in the Gulf, the two strategic endpoints of Saudi Arabia’s East-West oil pipeline linking key export routes across the kingdom. (Image: Google Maps)
US Vice President JD Vance waves as he boards Air Force Two in Islamabad on April 12, 2026, following marathon talks with Iran that ended without an agreement
Pakistan's Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif (R) speaks with US Vice President JD Vance during their meeting amid the US-Iran peace talks in Islamabad on April 11, 2026. (AFP)
A portrait of Iran's new supreme leader, Mojtaba Khamenei, is displayed at a Tehran rally held in support of his leadership amid the US-Israeli conflict with Iran, on Mar. 9 , 2026 [Photo: West Asia News Agency)
First responders rush to the site of an Israeli airstrike that targeted the Lebanese State Security Center, in the Southern Lebanese city of Nabatieh on Apr. 10 2026. (AFP)
A banner of assassinated Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah hangs amid rubble in Beirut’s southern suburbs following an Israeli airstrike on Mar. 25, 2026. (AFP)
US Vice President JD Vance speaks to the media before boarding Air Force Two to return to Washington DC, at the Budapest Ferenc Liszt International Airport in Budapest, Hungary, on April 8, 2026. (Photo: AFP)
German Chancellor Friedrich Merz addresses a press conference on the situation in the Middle East at the Chancellery in Berlin on March 1, 2026. (Photo: AFP)