U.S. Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth (L) shakes hands with Japanese PM Shigeru Ishiba at the prime minister's office in Tokyo Sunday, March 30, 2025. (Photo: AP)
A man flashes the V for victory sign and waves the Kurdish flag as Kurds demonstrate in the northeastern city of Qamishlo on March 14, 2025. (Photo: AFP)
The U.S. President Donald Trump (L) and the Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei (R) with a map of Diego Garcia naval base at the background. (Graphics: Kurdistan24)
Faye Hall (C) speaks on the phone after her release by the Taliban on March 29, 2025, alongside Qatar’s envoy Mirdef Alqashouti (L), in an image from a diplomatic source in Kabul. (Photo: AFP)
A young Iraqi girl, who accompanied her family to the polling station, asked for her finger to be inked, even though she was too young to vote, shows her inked finger as she leaves the polling station in Karbala, Iraq, Sunday, March 7, 2010. (Photo: AP)
An Iraqi youth bathes in a sulphur pond in the Hamam al-Alil area, about 14 kilometres from the southern outskirts of Mosul, on April 1, 2017. (Photo: AFP)
Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan gestures as he addresses a speech during the Justice and Development Party (AKP), as part of the 8th Ordinary Grand Congress at the Ankara Arena in Ankara, on Feb. 23, 2025. (Photo: AFP)