Officials look at the burnt wreckage of a Japan Airlines (JAL) passenger plane on the tarmac at Tokyo International Airport at Haneda in Tokyo, Jan. 3, 2024. (Photo: Richard A. Brooks/AFP)
Thick smoke billows from a raging fire at a storage tank of the al-Awda oil field facility near al-Qahtaniyah in northeastern Syria close to the Turkish border, Dec. 24, 2023. (Photo: Delil Souleiman/AFP)
Iraqi Prime Minister Mohammad Shia' Al-Sudani is pictured during a ministerial session in Baghdad, Nov. 21, 2023. (Photo: Iraqi prime minister's office)
An aerial view shows destroyed buildings in Beit Lahia following Israeli bombardments in the northern Gaza Strip, amid ongoing battles between Israel and the Palestinian militant group Hamas, Dec. 26, 2023. (Photo: AFP)
