An Apache helicopter takes off from the airfield during the US army Europe and Africa-directed exercise Combined Resolve 19 at the Hohenfels trainings area, southern Germany, Oct. 24, 2023. (Photo: APF)
US Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff US General Mark A Milley gives a press conference with US Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin (unseen) at the NATO headquarters in Brussels, on June 15, 2023. (Photo: Simon Wohlfahrt/ AFP)
Iraqi Prime Minister Mohamed Shia al-Sudani attending a meeting with transport ministry representatives in Baghdad, May 27, 2023. (Photo: The Media Office of the Iraqi Prime Minister)
Saudi Aramco engineers walk in front of a gas turbine generator at Khurais oil field during a tour for journalists, 150 kilometers east-northeast of Riyadh, Saudi Arabia on June 28, 2021. (Photo: Amr Nabil/ AP)
A man rides a camel along a road past signs bearing the name and logo of the "Baghdad Conference for Cooperation and Partnership", Dec. 19, 2022. (Photo: Khalil Mazraawi/AFP)
Iraqi demonstrators block a road with burning tyres as they protest the death of fellow protestors in clashes with security forces, in the southern city of Nasiriyah, Dec. 11, 2022. (Photo: Asaad Niazi/AFP)
Members of Iraq's Hashed al-Shaabi (Popular Mobilisation) paramilitary forces march in a symbolic funerary parade in the capital Baghdad, June 29, 2021. (Photo: Sabah Arar/AFP)
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)
NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg holds up a letter of commitment to innovation at a NATO summit in Madrid, Spain, June 30, 2022. (Photo: Paul White/AP)
A view of the monorail station and skyline of the King Abdullah Financial District in the Aqeeq area of Saudi Arabia's capital Riyadh during a heavy dust storm, May 17, 2022. (Photo: Fayez Nureldine/AFP
Kurdistan Region Prime Minister Masrour Barzani (right) poses for a photo with his British counterpart Boris Johnson outside 10 Downing Street in London, April 19, 2022. (Photo: Daniel Leal/AFP)
