Prime Minister Mohammed Shia al-Sudani (right), during his meeting with U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken (third from left), in Baghdad on Dec. 13, 2024. (Photo: INA)
Syrians chant slogans and wave the new Syrian flag as they gather for Friday prayers at the Umayyad mosque in Damascus, Syria, Dec. 13, 2024. (Photo: AP)
Front-pages of french and international newspapers carrying the capture of former Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein, Monday Dec. 15, 2003, in Paris. (Photo: AP/Michel Euler)
China's chess grandmaster Ding Liren (L) and India's grandmaster Gukesh Dommaraju (R) compete in game 14 of the 2024 FIDE World Championship in Singapore. (Photo: AFP)
Yazidi women queue in order to get food at the Bajid Kandala camp near the Tigris River, in western Dohuk province, where they took refuge after fleeing advances by Islamic State jihadists in Iraq on Aug. 13, 2014. (Photo: AFP)
U.S. Central Command commander General Michael Eric Kurilla visited Syria and Iraq after the fall of Bashar al-Assad. (Photo: U.S. Department of Defense)
