A low-cost autonomous cruise missile Barracuda 500, jointly manufactured by U.S. Anduril and Taiwan's National Chung-Shan Institute of Science and Technology, is displayed during the TADTE in Taipei, Taiwan, Sept. 20, 2025. (AP)
Israeli police officers at the site where a vehicle was used, according to the authorities, during a ramming and stabbing attack in Afula, northern Israel, Dec. 26, 2025. (Photo: Israel Police)
Armed security officers cordon off the area following an explosion inside Imam Ali ibn Abi Talib Mosque in the Wadi al-Dahab neighborhood of Homs on December 26, 2025. (AFP)
Pope Leo XIV waves after delivering the Urbi et Orbi (Latin for 'to the city and to the world' ) Christmas' day blessing from the main balcony of St. Peter's Basilica at the Vatican, Dec. 25, 2025. (Photo: AP)
The logos of the MSD (R) and the Syrian Interim Government (left) frame a map highlighting the contested Kurdish neighborhoods in Aleppo. (Graphic: Kurdistan24)
Fazil Mirani, Head of the Executive Body of the KDP Politburo, L, Hadi al-Amiri, head of the Fatah Alliance, in Baghdad, Iraq, Dec 24, 2025. (Kurdistan24)