Cargo ships, including bulk carriers and general cargo vessels, sit at anchor offshore, in the Strait of Hormuz off Bandar Abbas, Iran, May 4, 2026. (Photo: AP)
A large group of people wearing traditional Kurdish clothing gathers at the Kurdish Traditional Clothing Festival, June 24, 2026. (Photo: Designed by Kurdistan24)
This picture taken from a position in the Upper Galilee region in northern Israel, shows Israeli military vehicles driving along a road in southern Lebanon on June 22, 2026. (Photo: AFP)
US Secretary of State Marco Rubio is greeted by UAE Ambassador to the US Yousef al-Otaiba upon arrival at al-Bateen Executive Airport in Abu Dhabi on June 23, 2026. (AFP)
Iran's delegation including FM Abbas Araghchi (C) and Speaker of the Islamic Parliament of Iran, Mohammed Bagher Ghalibaf (2ndR) arrive in Switzerland, on June 21, 2026. (AFP)
Lebanese Shiite Hezbollah supporters listen to a televised speech by the movement's leader Naim Qassem during a ceremony during the peak of Ashura, in Beirut's southern suburbs on July 6, 2025. (AFP)
Billboards showing Iran’s new S. L. Ayatollah Mojtaba Khamenei (L) and his late father Ali Khamenei (R), with the slogan “Thank you, loyal Iran,” erected along a highway in Beirut, June 22, 2026. (AFP)
White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt speaks during the daily press briefing in the Brady Press Briefing Room at the White House on April 27, 2026 in Washington, DC. (AFP)
US VP JD Vance looks on as Iranian FM Abbas Araqchi greets Pakistani PM Shehbaz Sharif ahead of quadrilateral talks in Burgenstock, Switzerland, on June 21, 2026. (AFP)
US Secretary of State Marco Rubio speaks to the press before boarding his plane at Homestead Air Reserve Base on May 21, 2026 in Homestead, Florida. (Photo: AFP)
US Delegation next to Pakistan's Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif, Qatar's PM and Pakistan's Chief of Army Staff Field as part of high-level talks with Iran (Photo: AFP)