A Pentagon translator, Mariam Thompson, was sentenced on June 23, 2021 for passing names of US informants in Iraq to the Lebanese group Hezbollah. (Photo: Wikimedia Commons/CC-BY 4.0)
Ebrahim Raisi, head of Iran’s judiciary, waves to media as he registers his candidacy for the June 18 presidential elections, May 15, 2021. (Photo: Ebrahim Noroozi/AP)
A member of the US Air Force near a Patriot missile battery at Prince Sultan air base in Al-Kharj, Saudi Arabia, 2020. (Photo: Andrew Caballero-Reynolds/AFP)
Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, center left, greets US President Joe Biden, center right, during a plenary session during a summit at NATO headquarters in Brussels, Belgium, June 14, 2021. (Photo: Brendan Smialowski/Pool/AP)
In the background the Iron Dome missile sense system (L) intercepts rockets (R) fired by Hamas towards Israel from Gaza, and on foreground tens of other intercepts rockets while the Iron Dome is busy, May 16, 2021. (Photo: Anas Baba/AFP)
US Army soldiers and US Air Force JTAC partners with the Syrian Democratic Forces to conduct an AH-64 (Apache) live-fire, March 20, 2021. (Photo: Sgt. Torrance Saunders/US Army)
A US Special Forces Soldier walks through a windy desert from meeting with locals in Syria, March 2018. (Photo: Staff Sgt. Christopher Brown/US 5th Special Forces Public Affairs Office)