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)
US President Donald Trump speaks during a Medal of Honor ceremony in the East Room of the White House on March 2, 2026, in Washington, DC. (Photo: AFP)
French President Emmanuel Macron, (L-1st), walks past a Dassault Rafale fighter aircraft during his New Year address to the French army at the Mont-de-Marsan air base, southwestern France, Jan. 20, 2023. (AFP)
Fire blazes and black smoke rises from the site of an Israeli airstrike that targeted the office of the Hezbollah affiliated Al-Manar TV station in Beirut’s southern suburb of Haret Hreik on Mar. 3, 2026. (AFP)
Speaker of the House Mike Johnson, R-La., gestures as he meets with reporters ahead of a key procedural vote to end the partial government shutdown, at the Capitol in Washington, Feb. 3, 2026. (AP)
Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks during a joint press conference with his Indian counterpart Narendra Modi in Jerusalem on Feb. 26, 2026. (AFP)
Smoke rises from the site of an Israeli airstrike that targeted the offices of Al-Qard al-Hassan, a Hezbollah-linked financial institution, in the city of Baalbeck in Lebanon's Bekaa valley on Mar. 2, 2026. (AFP)
US Secretary of State Marco Rubio addresses the press before briefing House and Senate leaders on US military action in Iran, at the US Capitol in Washington, DC, on Mar. 2, 2026. (AFP)