Arab League Secretary-General Ahmed Aboul Gheit, right, meets with Palestinian Prime Minister Mohammed Mustafa during his visit at the Arab League headquarters in Cairo, Egypt, Feb. 6, 2025. (Photo: Amr Nabil / AP)
Palestinians are seen near destroyed buildings by Israeli bombardments inside the northern Gaza Strip as seen from southern Israel, Feb. 9, 2025. (Photo: Ohad Zwigenberg / AP)
teen Salah Khalaf Al-Salamah (15 years old) who got killed in the airstrike of Sakiro village in the eastern countryside of the city of Ain Issa in the Tal Abyad district Rojava, Feb. 9, 2025. (photo: ANHA)
Demonstrators hold posters reading " Birgun will not be silent" and "Journalism is not a crime" during a protest in front of the Istanbul Justice Palace in Istanbul on February 9, 2025. (Photo: AFP)
Yousef Al-Kalabi, spokesperson for PMF(L)(Photo: Buratha news agency) -Yousif al-Kilaby embracing one of the strikers at their tent in Sulaimani(R). (Photo found on Social Media)
People stroll through a local market in the northeastern Syrian city of Qamishli, which is controlled by the U.S.-backed, Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), Jan. 28, 2025. (Photo: Bernat Armangue / AP)
Ibrahim Kalin, Head of the Turkish Intelligence Organization, in meeting with Iran's SNSC Secretary Ali Akbar Ahmadian, Tehran, Iran, Feb. 8, 2025. (Photo: Nour News)
Lebanese president Joseph Aoun, (C), meets with Prime Minister-designate Nawaf Salam, (R), and parliament speaker Nabih Berri, (L), in east of Beirut, Lebanon, Feb. 6, 2025. (Photo: AP)
Israeli captives, kidnapped by Hamas since Oct. 2023, stand escorted by Hamas fighters on a stage before being handed over to the Red Cross in Deir al-Balah, central Gaza.Feb. 8, 2025(Photo:AP)
KRG Minister of Transport and Communication Ano Jawhar Abdulmaseeh Abdoka (R), and Ineke M. Stoneham (L), Head of the Africa and Near East Unit. (Photo: Kurdistan24)
Hemin Hawrami (R) Head of the KDP's Organizational Bureau, met with U.S. Congressman Eugene Vindman (L) at the U.S. Congress building. (Photo: Kurdistan24)
Women hold posters bearing a pictures of Ohad Ben Ami (L) and Or Levy ,two of three Israeli hostages to be released by Hamas on Feb. 8, 2025. (Photo: AFP)
French President Emmanuel Macron (L) greets Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan (R) during a working session on AI, Energy, Africa and Mideast, at the G7, Jun.14, 2024(Photo:AP)
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan (R) and Syria's interim president Ahmed al-Sharaa (L) shake hands during a joint press conference following their meeting at the Presidential Palace in Ankara, on Febr. 4, 2025(Photo: AFP)
Syria's new leader Ahmed al-Sharaa (R) and Russia's Deputy Foreign Minister Mikhail Bogdanov (L) posing for a picture during their meeting in Damascus, on Jan. 29, 2025. (Photo:AFP)