Shiite Muslims shout anti-Sweden slogans during a procession on the tenth day of Ashura in the Islamic month of Muharram, in Karachi, July 29, 2023. (Photo: Rizwan Tabbasumi/AFP)
Kurdistan Region Prime Minister Masrour Barzani (right) speaking to UAE President Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan at Sea Palace in Abu Dhabi, Jan. 25, 2022. (Photo: KRG)
Iraqi Minister of Oil Hayan Abdul Ghani (right) signing a memorandum of understanding with Lebanese Minister of Energy and Water Walid Fayad. (Photo: Iraqi News Agency)
Palestinian protesters stand with copies of the Koran, Islam's holy book, during a demonstration outside the Swedish consulate headquarters in the East Jerusalem neighbourhood of Sheikh Jarrah, July 3, 2023. (Photo: Hazem Bader/AFP)
A cleric holds a Quran outside the Swedish embassy in Baghdad for a second day of protests against a Koran burning, June 30, 2023. (Photo: Ahmad Al Rubaye/AFP)
US Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff US General Mark A Milley gives a press conference with US Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin (unseen) at the NATO headquarters in Brussels, on June 15, 2023. (Photo: Simon Wohlfahrt/ 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)
Saudi Deputy Foreign Minister Walid al-Khuraiji (right) receiving Syrian Foreign Minister Faisal Mekdad upon his arrival at the airport of Jeddah, April 12, 2023. (Photo: SPA/AFP)
Ansar Allah, head of the Houthi’s supreme political council Mahdi al-Mashat, left, shakes hands with Saudi Arabia’s Ambassador to Yemen Mohammed bin Saeed Al-Jaber, in Sanaa, Yemen. (Photo: Ansar Allah Media Office)
Iran's FM Hossein Amir-Abdollahian (L) shaking hands with Saudi counterpart Prince Faisal bin Farhan and Chinese Foreign Minister Qin Gang (C) during a meeting in Beijing, April 6, 2023. (Photo: Iranian Foreign Ministry/AFP)
