Security
Colonel Zaid Adel. (Photo: Adel's Social media)
An image from a propaganda video released by the Islamic State shows militants near Tikrit, Iraq, last year. (AFP)
Russian soldier guards Grad rocket launcher before firing toward Ukrainian positions. (Russian Defense Ministry Press Service via AP)
Smoke rises from the site of a series of Israeli airstrikes that targeted the outskirts of the southern Lebanese village of al-Katrani on Dec. 18, 2025. (AFP)
American soldiers in Syria. (Graphic: Kurdistan24)
US Navy Boeing EA-18G Growlers fly over José Aponte de la Torre Airport, formerly Roosevelt Roads Naval Station, on Dec. 15, 2025. (AFP)
SDF fighters stand atop a humvee near a US Bradley Fighting Vehicle (BFV) in Hasakah, Western Kurdistan, Sep. 7, 2022. (Photo: AFP)
Sgts. William Nathaniel Howard, L, Edgar Brian Torres-Tovar. the two US soldiers killed in Syria in an ISIS attack on Dec. 13, 2025. (AP)
The Kurdistan Region’s Peshmerga forces conduct the “Lion Maneuver” drill on December 15, 2025. (Photo: Ministry of Peshmerga)
Lebanese army soldiers look at the Israeli military post of Hanita, left, and the Labbouneh post, one of five hills used by Israeli forces, in the village of Alma al-Shaab in south Lebanon,, Nov. 28, 2025. (AP)
Turkish F-16 fighter jets flying during a NATO Drill. (Photo: AA)
A woman weeps after laying flowers outside Bondi Pavilion in Sydney on Dec. 16, 2025, to honor victims of the Bondi Beach shooting.
A road sign indicating the direction to the city of Idleb.(Photo: SOHR)
A portrait of Blaise Metreweli, the first ever female Chief of the Secret Intelligence Service (MI6). (AFP/British Government)
Mourners gather to pay a floral tribute to Bondi Beach shooting victims in Sydney on Dec. 15, 2025. (AFP)
US Secretary of State Marco Rubio. (Photo: AFP)