A passenger plane flies underneath dark clouds illuminated by some sun rays above Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, Friday, Aug. 19, 2022. (Photo: AP/Hassan Ammar)
US journalist Evan Gershkovich, accused of espionage, stands inside a glass defendants' cage during the verdict announcement at the Sverdlovsk Regional Court in Yekaterinburg on July 19, 2024. (Photo: Alexander NEMENOV/AFP)
American soldiers walk around at the Taji base complex which hosts Iraqi and US troops and is located thirty kilometres north of the capital Baghdad on December 29, 2014. (Photo: AFP)
Delegates hold up their hats and signs during the third day of the 2024 Republican National Convention at the Fiserv Forum in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, on July 17, 2024. (Photo: AFP)
Freed Syrian detainees gather in front of posters showing Syrian President Bashar Assad, right, and his father Hafez Assad after they were released from Adra Prison on the north-east outskirts of Damascus, Syria, on Jan. 15, 2013. (Photo: A