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)
Turkish Chief of General Staff General Selcuk Bayraktaroglu (L) and Libyan Chief of General Staff General Muhammad Ali Al-Haddad (C) saluting during an official ceremony in Ankara, Dec. 23, 2025. (AFP)
