A photo taken on May 23, 2021 shows a Ryanair passenger plane after being forced to land in Minsk while traveling within Belarus' airspace. (Photo: AFP/Petras Malukas)
Iraqi security forces carry a colleague injured during clashes with protestors at Tahrir Square in Baghdad during a demonstration to demand accountability, May 25, 2021 (Photo: Ahmad al-Rubaye/AFP)
Palestinians watch a Hamas rally just over a week after a ceasefire was reached in an 11-day war between Hamas and Israel, May 30, 2021, in Beit Lahia, northern Gaza Strip. (Photo: Felipe Dana/AP)
Three years after Turkey's cross-border attack on the northern Syrian city of Afrin, large numbers of displaced Kurds continue to live in camps. (Photo: Archive)
Opposition leader and Chairman of Israel's Yesh Atid party Yair Lapid speaks during a weekly party meeting at the Knesset in Jerusalem, May 24, 2021. (Photo: Gil Cohen-Magen/AFP
Syrians wave national flags and carry a large portrait of their president as they celebrate in the streets of the capital Damascus, May 27, 2021. (Photo: Louai Beshara/AFP)
A US armored military vehicle patrols oil fields in the town of Qahtaniyah in northeastern Syria’s Hasakah province, May 8, 2020. (Photo: Delil Souleiman/AFP)
UN Secretary-General for Iraq and Head of UNAMI, Jeanine Hennis-Plasschaert, at the open video-teleconference of the UN Security Council, February 16, 2021 (Photo: UN)
Syrian President Bashar al-Assad (C) and his wife Asma (R) cast their votes at a polling station in Douma, near Damascus, May 26, 2021. (Photo: Louai Beshara / AFP)
A member of Iraq's Interior Ministry's anti-"fake news" team speaks to a pharmacist in the capital Baghdad, as part of a campaign to spread awareness among the population on fake news, May 20, 2021. (Photo: Ahmad Al-Rubaye / AFP)
