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Syrian security forces stand guard as residents leave the Sheikh Maqsoud and Achrafieh neighborhoods of Aleppo, Syria, Oct. 7, 2025. (AP)
An aerial view of Aleppo. (Photo: AFP)
This handout photo shows the car bomb site in southern Moscow, Dec. 22, 2025.( AFP/RUSSIAN INVESTIGATIVE COMMITTEE)
France's President Emmanuel Macron addresses French troops during a ceremony at the 5th Cuirassier Regiment's base in Zayed Military City, near Abu Dhabi, on December 21, 2025.
Lebanese soldiers secure the site of an Israeli drone strike that targeted a truck in the village of Sibline, south of Beirut, on Dec. 16, 2025.
Hands holding various types of weapons, with the Iraqi flag in the background. (Graphic: Kurdistan24)
Members of the Syrian internal security forces while arresting ISIS cell terrorists in Daraya area of Rural Damascus, Dec. 21, 2025. (Photo: SANA)
PMF Members attend the funeral of fighters from Kataib Hezbollah, who were killed in a U.S. airstrike in Babil, Iraq, July 31, 2024. (AP)
U.S. Representative Joe Wilson. (Graphics: Kurdistan24)
The head of Iraq’s Supreme Judicial Council, Faiq Zidan. (Photo:
A crashed drone, allegedly of Russian origin, in a rural area near Izmit, Türkiye, Dec. 19, 2025. (DHA)
A US Airman attaches a GBU-31 munitions system to an F-15E Strike Eagle in the US Central Command area of responsibility, in support of Operation Hawkeye Strike, Dec. 18, 2025. (US Army)
In this US Army photo taken from an undisclosed location on Dec. 19, 2025. (Photo: AFP, Graphic: Kurdistan24)
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)
