Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov (R) and Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian shake hands during a joint news conference in Moscow on August 31, 2022. (Photo: MAXIM SHEMETOV/AFP)
People watch outside of destroyed Hayat Hotel after a deadly 30-hour siege by Al-Shabaab jihadists in Mogadishu, August 21, 2022. (Photo: Hassan Ali Elmi/AFP)
In this photo released by the Iranian Foreign Ministry, Enrique Mora, a leading European Union diplomat, left, shakes hands with Iran's top nuclear negotiator Ali Bagheri Kani in Tehran, Mar. 27, 2022 (Photo: Iranian Foreign Ministry via AP
Minister of Peshmerga Affairs Shoresh Ismail Abdulla (right) met separately with US and British military officials on Tuesday, Apr. 5, 2022 (Photo: Shoresh Ismail Abdulla/Facebook)
The bulk carrier Razoni starts its way from the port in Odesa, Ukraine, Aug. 1, 2022. According to Ukraine's Ministry of Infrastructure, the ship is carrying 26 thousand tons of Ukrainian corn to Lebanon (Photo: Michael Shtekel/AP)
President Joe Biden speaks from the Blue Room Balcony of the White House, Aug. 1, 2022, as he announces that a US airstrike killed al-Qaida leader Ayman al-Zawahri in Afghanistan (Photo: Jim Watson/Pool via AP)
a grain combine harvester collecting wheat near Novoazovsk outside Mariupol, amid the ongoing Russian military action in Ukraine, July 31, 2022. (Photo: AFP)
Iraqi protesters fill the Parliament building in Baghdad, July 30, 2022 as thousands of followers of an influential Shiite cleric breached the building for the second time in a week (Photo: Anmar Khalil/AP)
EU Foreign Policy Chief Josep Borrell speaks to the press after a meeting of EU defence ministers at the European Council building in Brussels in Brussels, Tuesday, May 17, 2022 (Photo: AP/Olivier Matthys, File)
The signing ceremony in Turkey’s Istanbul between Russian and Turkish defense ministers to allow Ukraine to resume shipping grain from the Black Sea, July 22, 2022 (Photo: Vadim Savitsky, Russian Defense Ministry Press Service via AP)