The Arleigh Burke class guided-missile-destroyer, USS Spruance (DDG 111), firing Tomahawk Land Attack Missiles in support of Operation Epic Fury, from an undisclosed location on February 28, 2026. (Photo: AFP)
German Chancellor Friedrich Merz addresses a press conference on the situation in the Middle East at the Chancellery in Berlin on March 1, 2026. (Photo: AFP)
Iraqi Foreign Minister Fuad Hussein (R) and Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi (L) during the joint press conference, Sunday Oct. 13, 2024 in Baghdad. (Photo: AFP)
Israeli emergency service officers search the scene of a missile attack near Bet Shemesh, some 30 kilometres west of Jerusalem on March 1, 2026. (Photo: AFP)
People gather to mourn the death of Iran’s supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, who was killed in joint US and Israeli strikes, at a square in Tehran on March 1, 2026. (AFP)
People mourn the death of Iran’s supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, who was killed in joint US and Israeli strikes, at a square in Tehran on March 1, 2026. (AFP)
Demonstrators wave Iranian flags and banners of armed factions while carrying portraits of Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and the flag of Kataib Hezbollah during a protest near Baghdad’s Green Zone, Feb. 28, 2026. (Kurdistan24)
Smoke and fire trail from a U.S. destroyer in Gulf waters as it launches rockets toward Iranian targets, Feb. 28, 2026, as part of Operation Epic Fury. (Photo: CENTCOM)
A view of the White House on Feb. 28, 2026 in Washington, DC. U.S. President Donald Trump announced that the United States and Israel had launched an attack on Iran.
Iraqi Prime Minister Mohammed Shia al-Sudani (R), and Tom Barrack, U.S. Ambassador to Türkiye and Special Envoy for Syria (L), on Feb. 27, 2025. (Photo: Iraqi Prime Minister’s media office )
a mural depicting an Iranian official in civilian clothing sitting across the table from an American official wearing military fatigues painted on the outer walls of the former US embassy in Tehran. (AFP)
The head of the State of Law Coalition, Nouri al-Maliki (R), and Tom Barrack, U.S. Ambassador to Türkiye and Special Envoy for Syria (L), on Feb. 27, 2025. (Photo: Maliki’s media office)
The Internal Security Forces (Asayish) Directorate building in Kobani city, Western Kurdistan (Northern Syria), on Feb. 27, 2026. (Photo: Syrian Ministry of Interior)