Pope Leo XIV addresses the crowd from the window of the apostolic palace overlooking St. Peter's square during the Regina Caeli prayer in The Vatican on April 6, 2026. (Photo: AFP)
White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt speaks during a press briefing in the Brady Briefing Room of the White House in Washington, DC, on March 30, 2026. (Photo: AFP)
Smoke rises over Tehran following strikes on April 7, 2026, as fresh attacks hit the capital amid a looming US deadline over the Strait of Hormuz. (Photo: AFP)
Iran's domestically built missiles and satellite carriers are displayed in a permanent exhibition at a recreational area in northern Tehran, Iran, Tuesday, March 24, 2026. (AP)
Iranian students form a human chain around the uranium‑conversion facility in Isfahan in November 2011 to show support for Iran’s nuclear program, in a symbolic demonstration of solidarity with the country’s nuclear ambitions.
Fire and thick plumes of smoke rise from a petrochemical complex in the industrial city of Jubail, eastern Saudi Arabia, following overnight attacks, April 7, 2026. (AFP)
US President Donald Trump speaks to reporters as he hosts the annual Easter Egg Roll on the South Lawn of the White House on April 6, 2026, in Washington, DC. (AFP)
Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., looks at his phone in the Rose Garden before President Donald Trump arrives on Marine One on the South Lawn of the White House, March 23, 2026, in Washington. (AP)
A picture of the late Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei hangs on the side of the road in the outskirts of Tehran, Iran, early Sunday, April 5, 2026. (AP
In this July 21, 2019 file photo, an aerial view shows a speedboat of Iran's Revolutionary Guard moving around the British-flagged oil tanker Stena Impero. (AP)
A woman holds Iran’s national flag while standing near a billboard with a sentence reading ‘The Strait of Hormuz remains closed’ at the Enqelab Square in Tehran, on April 5, 2026. (AFP)
Iranians attend the funeral of Alireza Tangsiri, commander of the IRG's navy killed in US-Israeli strikes on Iran at Enghelab Square in Tehran on April 1, 2026. (Photo: AFP)
the damage at the site of an Israeli airstrike that targeted Sayyid al-Shuhada complex in the Haret Hreik neighbourhood of Beirut’s southern suburbs, on April 5, 2026. (Photo: AFP)
US President Donald Trump points after speaking at a televised address on the conflict in the Middle East from the Cross Hall of the White House in Washington, DC on April 1, 2026. (AFP)
Settlers chant racist slogans against the Kurds and raise the Syrian flag with slogans of monotheism written on it in front of the Kurds who are receiving the Afrini IDPs, in front of the security forces. (Photo: Handed to Kurdistan24)
Fouad Hussein, Iraq's foreign minister (R), and Mohammad Kazem Al Sadeq, the ambassador of the Islamic Republic of Iran to Iraq (L). (Photo: Iraqi foreign minister)
US President Donald Trump arrives to speak at a televised address on the conflict in the Middle East from the Cross Hall of the White House in Washington, DC on Apr. 1, 2026. (AFP)
Members of the German army march during a military parade ceremony marking the 105th anniversary of the Lithuanian military on Armed Forces Day in Vilnius, Lithuania, Nov. 25, 2023. (AP)
A simplified map of the Middle East labeling major nations including, Syria, United Arab Emirates (UAE), Kuwait, Bahrain, Qatar. (Graphic: Kurdistan24)
This satellite image from Planet Labs PBC shows fires burning on ships after a US military attack on a port in Bandar Abbas, Iran, March 2, 2026. (Planet Labs PBC via AP)
