Russia's President Vladimir Putin meets with Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on the sidelines of the BRICS summit in Kazan on October 23, 2024. (Photo: AFP)
A protester reacts as Istanbul security personnel detain him at a shopping mall during a rally in support of Istanbul arrested mayor, in Istanbul, on Mar. 27, 2025. (Photo: AFP)
Meeting between Saudi Arabia's Defence Minister Khaled bin Salman (C), Syria's Defence Minister Murhaf Abu Qasra (L) and Lebanon's Defence Minister Michel Menassa, in Jeddah. (Photo: SPA)
An aerial picture shows agricultural land surrounding effluents of the Shatt al-Arab waterway, where the Tigris and Euphrates rivers meet, in Iraq's southern city of Basra, on June 12, 2023. (Photo: AFP)
Aircraft assigned to Carrier Air Wing (CVW) 1 launch from the flight deck of the Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS Harry S. Truman (CVN 75) during flight operations in the U.S. Central Command area of responsibility. (Photo: CENTCOM)
Police officers stand in a street around the provincial police headquarters where Istanbul Mayor Ekrem Imamoglu is being held after his arrest, in Istanbul on March 19, 2025. (Photo: AFP)
Kurdistan Parliament confirms Masrour Barzani's appointment as Prime Minister of the KRG, along with the ministerial cabinet. Jul. 10, 2019. (Photo: Kurdistan24)
Syria's interim leader Ahmed al-Sharaa (C) meeting with members of the committee to draft a constitutional declaration for the country's transition, in Damascus on Mar. 2, 2025. (Photo: AFP)
Flags of Kurdistan are pictured as Kurdish protesters attends a demonstration against Turkey’s military action in northeastern Syria (Rojava), in Paris, France, Oct. 12, 2019. (Photo: In Cyprus)
President Trump, left, and first lady Melania Trump, center, speak with former President Joe Biden, Jan. 20, 2025, at the U.S. Capitol in Washington. (Photo: AP)
An Israeli soldier checks a Merkava battle tank deployed at a position in the Israel-annexed Golan Heights along the border with southern Syria on Mar. 25, 2025.(Photo: AFP)
Wearing a U.S. flag themed pocket square and belt buckle, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth waits for the start of a television interview outside the White House, Friday, March 21, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)
Soldiers of the Sudanese army or affiliated forces at the damaged presidential palace after recapturing the complex from RSF paramilitaries in Khartoum on Mar. 21, 2025. (Photo: AFP)
U.S. President Donald Trump holds paperwork he signed during an Ambassador Meeting in the Cabinet Room of the White House on Mar. 25, 2025 in Washington, DC.(Photo: AFP)
An Iraqi farmer inspects the water level near his land in Iraq's southern port city of al-Faw, 90 kilometres south of Basra near the Shatt al-Arab and the Gulf on August 17, 2020. (Photo: AFP)
Hundreds of Palestinians chanted anti-Hamas slogans at a protest in northern Gaza, calling for an end to the war with Israel, March 25, 2025. (Photo: AFP)
A 2nd Air Refueling Squadron KC-10 Extender from Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst, N.J., prepares to refuel a B-2 Spirit, during a training exercise near Kansas, Nov. 10, 2016. (Photo: USCENTCOM)