Former US Secretary of State Colin Powell pays his respects as the remains of former US President George H. W. Bush lie in state at the US Capitol rotunda in Washington, DC, Dec. 4, 2018. (Photo: Alex Edelman/AFP)
US President Joe Biden speaks from the East Room of the White House to virtually address the Munich Security Conference in Germany on February 19, 2021. (Photo: Mandel Ngan/AFP)
US forces assigned to the 82nd Airborne Division, arrive to provide security in support of Operation Allies Refuge at Hamid Karzai International Airport in Kabul, Afghanistan, Aug. 20, 2021. (Senior Airman Taylor Crul/US Air Force)
The oil tanker Mercer Street, which came under attack last week off the coast of Oman, is seen moored off Fujairah, UAE. The UK navy warned of a “potential hijack” of another ship in the Gulf of Oman on Aug. 3. (Photo: Jon Gambrell/AP)
Iraqis inspect the site of the explosion a day earlier in a popular market in the Shiite-majority Sadr City neighborhood, east of the capital Baghdad on July 20, 2021. (Photo: AHMAD AL-RUBAYE/AFP)
In this June 6, 2018 frame grab from Islamic Republic Iran Broadcasting, three versions of Iran’s domestically-built centrifuges are shown in a live TV program from the Natanz uranium enrichment plant. (Photo: IRIB/AP)
A photo released by Kurdistan Region counter terrorism forces shows the wreckage of one of three drones that attacked a residence in the outskirts of Erbil on June 26, 2021. (Photo: CTD)