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)
Head of Islamist rebel group Hayat Tahrir al-Sham's (HTS) 'Salvation Government' in their northwest Syria bastion Mohammed Bashir, holds a press conference in the rebel-held northwestern Syrian city of Idlib, Nov. 28, 2024. (Photo: AFP)
Kurdistan Region Prime Minister Masrour Barzani (left) during his meeting with Bahraini Foreign Minister Abdullatif bin Rashid al-Zayani, Dec. 10, 2024. (Photo: KRG)
Kurdistan Region Prime Minister Masrour Barzani (left) during meeting with Bahrain's National Security Advisor and Commander of the Royal Guard, Nasser bin Hamad al-Khalifa, Dec. 10, 2024. (Photo: KRG)
Kurdistan Region Prime Minister Masrour Barzani (left) during his meeting with Bahrain’s Crown Prince and Prime Minister, Salman bin Hamad al-Khalifa, Dec. 10, 2024. (Photo: KRG)
