L-R: Kurdistan Region President Nechirvan Barzani and Italian President Sergio Mattarella, Rome,Tuesday May 19, 2026. (Photo: Kurdistan Region Presidency)
Photo shows vehicles belonging to the Iraqi Army and PMF driving during a military operation along the desert areas of Al-Hadar and Al-Baaj on May 17, 2026, extending to the border provinces with Syria. (Photo: Zaid al-Obeidi/ AFP)
Police officers and relatives of the victims gather outside a hospital in southern Türkiye as medics transfer injured people from an ambulance following a deadly shooting spree near Mersin, May 19, 2026. (AFP)
An Iraqi man walks across the Sinak Bridge over the Tigris River in central Baghdad on May 18, 2026, during a dust storm coming from western Iraq. (Photo by AHMAD AL-RUBAYE / AFP)
An ambulance arrives at the emergency entrance of a hospital in the southern Turkish city of Mersin carrying victims wounded in a deadly shooting, May 18, 2026. (AFP)
A commuter walks past a large tiled image of Iran's current leader Ayatollah Mojtaba Khamenei, at the entrance to the metro station in Tehran on May 9, 2026.
This undated photograph released by the United Arab Emirates' state-run WAM news agency shows the under-construction Barakah nuclear power plant in Abu Dhabi's Western desert. (AP)
Cargo ships, including bulk carriers and general cargo vessels, sit at anchor offshore as a small motorboat passes in the foreground, in the Strait of Hormuz (Photo: AP)
Israeli army tanks maneuver near the so-called Alpha Line that separates the Israeli-annexed Golan Heights from Syria, in the town of Majdal Shams, Dec. 11, 2024. (AP)
Sailors make their way to their loved ones after disembarking from the USS Gerald R. Ford at Naval Station Norfolk in Norfolk, Va. on May 16, 2026, following an 11 month deployment. (AP)
Russian President Vladimir Putin arrives at a military parade to commemorate the 80th anniversary of Japan's World War II surrender in Beijing, China, Sept. 3, 2025.
