A US armored military vehicle patrols oil fields in the town of Qahtaniyah in northeastern Syria's Hasakah province, May 8, 2020. (Photo: Delil Souleiman/AFP)
Saudi Deputy Foreign Minister Walid al-Khuraiji (right) receiving Syrian Foreign Minister Faisal Mekdad upon his arrival at the airport of Jeddah, April 12, 2023. (Photo: SPA/AFP)
Ansar Allah, head of the Houthi’s supreme political council Mahdi al-Mashat, left, shakes hands with Saudi Arabia’s Ambassador to Yemen Mohammed bin Saeed Al-Jaber, in Sanaa, Yemen. (Photo: Ansar Allah Media Office)
Iran's FM Hossein Amir-Abdollahian (L) shaking hands with Saudi counterpart Prince Faisal bin Farhan and Chinese Foreign Minister Qin Gang (C) during a meeting in Beijing, April 6, 2023. (Photo: Iranian Foreign Ministry/AFP)
Saudi Aramco engineers walk in front of a gas turbine generator at Khurais oil field during a tour for journalists, 150 kilometers east-northeast of Riyadh, Saudi Arabia on June 28, 2021. (Photo: Amr Nabil/ AP)
A photo of Saudi Minister of Foreign Affairs Faisal bin Farhan (left) combined with a picture of his Iranian counterpart Hossein Amir-Abdollahian. (Photo: Designed by Kurdistan 24)
A war-damaged building housing displaced Syrians is pictured in Syria's rebel-held northern city of Raqa on March 1, 2023. (Photo: Delil Souleiman/ AFP)