Japanese PM Sanae Takaichi waves as she arrives to stage to deliver her speech during her visit to the aircraft carrier USS George Washington, Tokyo, Oct. 28, 2025. (AP)
This video grab taken from UGC images posted on social media and verified by AFPTV teams in Madrid, shows emergency personnel working after a train accident in Adamuz, southern Spain, on Jan. 18, 2026. (AFP)
Mark Savaya, US Special Envoy to Iraq, L, Tulsi Gabbard, DNI, C, Joe Kent, the Director of DNI’s National Counterterrorism Center, Jan. 19, 2026. (USG)
Former British PM and Middle East Quartet envoy Tony Blair gestures during his visit to the West Bank village of Zakaria near the Jewish settlement of Efrat, south of Bethlehem, March 19, 2009. (AFP)
Syrian government forces load rocket which will be launched towards Kurdish forces near Dibsi Faraj in the northern Syrian Tabqa area, Raqa province, Jan. 17, 2026. (AFP)
Greenland's Head of Government (Naalakkersuisut) Jens-Frederik Nielsen, holds a Greenlandic flag as he attends a demonstration to the US consulate in Nuuk, Greenland on Jan. 17, 2026. (AFP)
President Masoud Barzani, C-L, hosting a significant meeting in Pirmam, Erbil, with key U.S. and Syrian Kurdish leaders to discuss the ongoing situation in Syria. (Kurdistan24)
Kurdistan Region PM Masrour Barzani, R, Tom Barrack, U.S. President Donald Trump’s Special Envoy to Syria and the U.S. Ambassador to Türkiye, Pirmam, Erbil, Jan. 17, 2025. (KRG)
President Masoud Barzani, L, Tom Barrack, U.S. Ambassador to Türkiye and President Donald Trump’s Special Envoy to Syria, in Pirmam, Erbil, Jan. 17, 2026. (Kurdistan24)
Kurdistan Region’s Ministry of Interior, Rebar Ahmed (L), Susan Rapp, a senior official at the International Center for Migration Policy Development (R). (Graphic: Kurdistan24)
A soldier walks toward the Joint Arctic Command headquarter handling the Defence's tasks in and around Greenland and the Faroe Islands is pictured in Nuuk, Greenland, on Jan. 15, 2026. (AFP)
