This combination of pictures created on March 18, 2025 shows President Donald Trump (L) on the phone on January 28, 2017 in Washington, and Russia's President Vladimir Putin (R) on the phone Moscow on December 27, 2023. (Photo: AFP)
Members of Syria's security forces stand guard during the funeral of three people killed in Israeli strikes a day earlier, in the southern town of Daraa on Mar. 18, 2025.(Photo: AFP)
People take part in a protest in Tel Aviv, Israel, March 9, 2025, demanding the immediate release of hostages held by Hamas in the Gaza Strip. (Photo: AP)
A displaced Iraqi girls poses for a photo holding a bowel of rice on March 20, 2015 at a camp for internally displaced persons (IDP) in Baghdad. (Photo: AFP)
Kurdistan Region Prime Minister Masrour Barzani (right) during his meeting with Turkish Minister of Energy and Natural Resources Alparslan Bayraktar, March 16, 2025. (Photo: KRG)
Turkish Minister of Energy and Natural Resources Alparslan Bayraktar (L), Iraqi Foreign Minister Fuad Hussein (R), in Baghdad, Mar. 16, 2025. (Photo: INA)
Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan speaks during the 79th Session of the United Nations General Assembly at the United Nations headquarters in New York City on Sep. 24, 2024. (Photo: AFP)
Kurdistan Region Prime Minister Masrour Barzani (left) and Bafel Talabani, President of the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan (PUK), March 16, 2025. (Photo: KRG)
Kurdistan Region PM Masrour Barzani (R), in meeting with Hamid Al-Shatri, the Head of the Federal National Intelligence Agency in Erbil, Mar. 16, 2025. (Photo: KRG)
Graphic content / Human remains exhumed from a mass grave lie in Tal al-Shaikhia in the Muthanna province in southern Iraq on Dec. 25, 2024. (Photo: AFP)
President Donald Trump waves to the media as he leaves after a luncheon with the Speaker of the House Mike Johnson, R-La., and Ireland's PM Micheal Martin at the U.S. Capitol, March 12, 2025. (Photo: AP)
