Joey Hood, Acting Assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern Affairs, shows Fawzi Hariri, Chief of Staff to the President of the Kurdistan Region, a vista of Washington on July 23, 2021. (Photo: US State Department)
Turkish Cypriot leader Ersin Tatar (center right) and Turkish President Recep Erdogan (center left) take part in a parade in Cyprus' divided capital Nicosia, July 20, 2021. (Photo: Birol Bebek/AFP)
Syrian youth Sobhi, 15, holds an AK-47 assault rifles as he takes part in a military training at a former school turned into a “military academy” in Tallinn in Aleppo province, Syria, Jan. 23, 2013 (Photo: JM Lopez/AFP)
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken participates in a meeting in Rome, where he attended a conference of the 83-member D-ISIS (Defeat ISIS) Coalition, June 27, 2021. (Photo: AFP)
Syrian youth Sobhi, 15, holds an AK-47 assault rifles as he takes part in a military training at a former school turned into a “military academy” in Tallinn in Aleppo province, Syria, Jan. 23, 2013 (Photo: JM Lopez/AFP)
A woman (R) stays with her family’s help on the floor for 11 days after delivering a baby due to the lack of beds at Ayder Referral Hospital in Mekele, capital of the Tigray region, Ethiopia, June 20, 2021. (Photo: Yasuyoshi Chiba/AFP)
Russian President Vladimir Putin (L) shakes hands with US President Joe Biden prior to the US-Russia summit at the Villa La Grange, in Geneva on June 16, 2021. (Photo: Brendan Smialowski / AFP)
A new video by the UN Investigative Team to Promote Accountability for Crimes Committed by Da’esh/ISIL (UNITAD) claims to show clear evidence of genocide. (Photo: UNITAD)
In this photo released on April 22, 2020, by Sepahnews, an Iranian rocket carrying a satellite is launched from an undisclosed site believed to be in Iran's Semnan province. (Sepahnews via AP)
A nurse holds a used vial of Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 coronavirus vaccine at a vaccination center in the Kindi Hospital in Iraq's capital Baghdad, April 14, 2021. (Photo: Ahmad al-Rubaye / AFP)
