Portraits of people forcibly disappeared in Iraq, Lebanon, Syria, and Yemen are displayed during an event organized by Amnesty International and attended by their family members in Beirut, Aug. 30, 2023. (Photo: Anwar Amro/ AFP)
Flags of Turkey and breakaway North Cyprus hang on the facade of the newly-inaugurated terminal of Ercan airport outside Nicosia, July 21, 2023. (Photo: Birol Bebek/AFP)
Saudi Ambassador Nayef Al-Sudairi (L) presents his credentials to Palestinian Authority diplomatic adviser Majdi al-Khalidi at the Palestinian embassy in Jordan on August 12, 2023. (Photo: Wafa)
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)
