The House of Representatives, the lower house of the Egyptian Parliament, at the New Administrative Capital megaproject in Cairo. August 1, 2023. (AFP)
US President Donald Trump (C) speaks during a meeting with US oil company executives in the East Room of the White House in Washington, DC, Jan. 9, 2026. )AFP)
Residents of the Sheikh Maqsud neighborhood are escorted out of the harms way by the members of Syrian government security forces, in Aleppo on Jan. 10, 2026. (AFP)
Lebanese army soldiers, paramedics inspect the wreckage of a car that was targeted in an Israeli airstrike in the town of Qanarit, southern Lebanon, Jan. 8, 2026. (AFP)
Columns of smoke rising from Aleppo's Sheikh Maqsud and Ashrafiyeh neighborhoods amid intense clashes between Syrian Aram Army and the Kurdish SDF, Jan. 9, 2025. (Photo: Designed by Kurdistan24)
(L-R), Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky, France's President Emmanuel Macron and Britain's PM Keir Starmer sign the declaration on deploying post-ceasefire force in Ukraine, at the Elysee Palace in Paris, Jan. 6, 2026. (AFP)