a grain combine harvester collecting wheat near Novoazovsk outside Mariupol, amid the ongoing Russian military action in Ukraine, July 31, 2022. (Photo: AFP)
Iraqi protesters fill the Parliament building in Baghdad, July 30, 2022 as thousands of followers of an influential Shiite cleric breached the building for the second time in a week (Photo: Anmar Khalil/AP)
EU Foreign Policy Chief Josep Borrell speaks to the press after a meeting of EU defence ministers at the European Council building in Brussels in Brussels, Tuesday, May 17, 2022 (Photo: AP/Olivier Matthys, File)
The signing ceremony in Turkey’s Istanbul between Russian and Turkish defense ministers to allow Ukraine to resume shipping grain from the Black Sea, July 22, 2022 (Photo: Vadim Savitsky, Russian Defense Ministry Press Service via AP)
A family sit on a rock in front of a cargo ship anchors in the Marmara Sea awaits to access to cross the Bosphorus Straits in Istanbul, Turkey, on July 13, 2022 (Photo: Khalil Hamra/AP/File)
Masoud Barzani, President of the Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP), in meeting with Oleg Levin, Russia’s Consul General to Erbil, July 23, 2022. (Photo: Barzani headquarters)
Russian President Vladimir Putin, left, Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi, center, and Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan pose for a photo prior to their talks in Tehran, July 19, 2022 (Photo: Sergei Savostyanov, Sputnik, Kremlin Pool via
Russian President Vladimir Putin and Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan talk to each other during their meeting in the Black Sea resort of Sochi, Russia, on Sept. 29, 2021 (Photo: Vladimir Smirnov, Sputnik, Kremlin Pool Photo via AP, Fi
President Joe Biden and Israeli Prime Minister Yair Lapid address the media following their meeting in Jerusalem Thursday, July 14, 2022. (Photo: Evan Vucci/AP)
President Joe Biden speaks in the Roosevelt Room of the White House, July 8, 2022. Biden's visit to the Middle East this week includes meeting with Saudi Arabia's King Salman and crown prince Mohammed bin Salman (Photo: Evan Vucci/AP File)