middle east
Hargeisa downtown, capital of Somaliland, May 20, 2021. (Photo: Somaliland Gov.)
Saudi Air Force advanced F-15SA fighter jets. (AFP)
Lebanese army soldiers stand next to the wreckage of a car that was trageted in an Israli air strike in Mazraat al Qnaitra on Dec. 22, 2025. (AFP)
The logo of Yemen's Southern Transitional Council (STC). (Photo: STC)
A Graphical map showing who controls what in Yemen. (Graphical map: Kurdistan24)
Turkish Chief of General Staff General Selcuk Bayraktaroglu (L) and Libyan Chief of General Staff General Muhammad Ali Al-Haddad (C) saluting during an official ceremony in Ankara, Dec. 23, 2025. (AFP)
Israeli Defense Minister Israel Katz. (AP)
Kuwaiti minister of public works Nora al-Mashaan (R) signs deal with China to advance Mubarak Al-Kabeer Port on Boubyan Island. (Photo by KUNA / AFP)
The photo shows a view of Tehran and the Iranian flag. (Graphics: Kurdistan24)
Lebanese soldiers secure the site of an Israeli drone strike that targeted a truck in the village of Sibline, south of Beirut, on Dec. 16, 2025.
U.S. President Donald Trump, R, Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi, signing Gaza peace plan, in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt, Oct. 13, 2025. (AFP)
Kurdistan Region PM Masrour Barzani, L, Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi, shaking hands in Cairo, Egypt, Dec. 21, 2025. (Kurdistan24)
Kurdistan Region PM Masrour Barzani, L, Egyptian Minister of Culture Ahmed Fouad Henu, Cairo, Egypt. Dec. 20, 2025. (Photo: KRG)
Vehicles drive through flood waters following heavy rains, in Sharjah on Dec. 19, 2025. (AFP)
Smoke rises from the site of a series of Israeli airstrikes that targeted the outskirts of the southern Lebanese village of al-Katrani on Dec. 18, 2025. (AFP)
Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu, L, in a video statement alongside Energy Minister Eli Cohen, Dec. 17, 2025. (Israel's Energy Ministry)
