Edda Mueller, chairwoman of Transparency International Germany poses for the media with the Corruption Perceptions Index 2018, in Berlin, Germany, Jan. 29, 2019. (Photo: Markus Schreiber / AP)
This combination of pictures created on September 01, 2024 shows undated portraits provided on September 1, 2024, by The Hostages Families Forum Headquarters. (Photo: AFP)
A boy walks through a puddle of sewage water past mounds of trash and rubble along a street in the Jabalia camp for Palestinian refugees in the northern Gaza Strip on August 14, 2024. (Photo: AFP)
This image provided by U.S. Central Command, shows the U.S.-built floating pier being used to facilitate aid deliveries to the Gaza Strip, May 16, 2024. (Photo: AP)
Kurdish forces patrol al-Hol camp, which houses families of members of the Islamic State group in Hasakeh province, Syria, on April 19, 2023. (Photo: AP)
A Kuwaiti trader wearing a protective mask follows the market at the Boursa Kuwait stock exchange in Kuwait City, March 1, 2020. (Photo: Yasser al-Zayyat/AFP)
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken visits a World Food Program (WFP)regional warehouse in Amman during his visit to the Jordanian capital as part of a Middle East tour, Jan. 7, 2024. (Photo: Evelyn Hockstein/Pool/AFP