Russia's President Vladimir Putin (R) shakes hands with Syria's President Bashar al-Assad during their meeting at the Kremlin in Moscow on July 24, 2024. (Photo: Valery SHARIFULIN/ AFP)
Secretary of Defense Lloyd J. Austin III and Iraqi Defense Minister Muhammad al-Abbasi meet at the Pentagon, July 23, 2024. (Photo: US Department of Defense)
A passenger plane flies underneath dark clouds illuminated by some sun rays above Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, Friday, Aug. 19, 2022. (Photo: AP/Hassan Ammar)
US journalist Evan Gershkovich, accused of espionage, stands inside a glass defendants' cage during the verdict announcement at the Sverdlovsk Regional Court in Yekaterinburg on July 19, 2024. (Photo: Alexander NEMENOV/AFP)
American soldiers walk around at the Taji base complex which hosts Iraqi and US troops and is located thirty kilometres north of the capital Baghdad on December 29, 2014. (Photo: AFP)
Delegates hold up their hats and signs during the third day of the 2024 Republican National Convention at the Fiserv Forum in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, on July 17, 2024. (Photo: AFP)
