Fighters of the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) during a joint military exercise with US forces in Syria's northeastern Hasakah province on September 7, 2022 (Photo: AFP)
President Recep Tayyip Erdoǧan of Türkiye, Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson of Sweden, and NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg met at the NATO Summit in Vilnius (Photo: NATO)
Supporters of Iraqi Shiite cleric Moqtada Sadr stage a protest in Karbala on June 29, 2023 denouncing the burning of the Koran (Photo: Mohammed SAWA /AFP)
Salwan Momika, a member of the Iraqi diaspora community in Sweden, protests outside a mosque in Stockholm, June 28, 2023. (Photo: Jonathan Nackstrand/AFP)
Swedish, and NATO flags are set up prior to the signing ceremony of the law ratifying the NATO Protocol on Finland and Sweden’s membership in Gdynia, Poland, in July 22 (Photo: MATEUSZ SLODKOWSKI/AFP VIA GETTY IMAGES)
Polish, Swedish, Finnish, and NATO flags are set up prior to the signing ceremony of the law ratifying the NATO Protocol on Finland and Sweden’s membership in Gdynia, Poland, in July 22 (Photo: MATEUSZ SLODKOWSKI/AFP VIA GETTY IMAGES)
Polish, Swedish, Finnish, and NATO flags are set up prior to the signing ceremony of the law ratifying the NATO Protocol on Finland and Sweden’s membership in Gdynia, Poland, in July 22 (Photo: MATEUSZ SLODKOWSKI/AFP VIA GETTY IMAGES)
Polish, Swedish, Finnish, and NATO flags are set up prior to the signing ceremony of the law ratifying the NATO Protocol on Finland and Sweden’s membership in Gdynia, Poland, in July 22 (Photo: MATEUSZ SLODKOWSKI/AFP VIA GETTY IMAGES)
Turkey's Permanent Representative to NATO Zeki Levant Gumrukcu, Britain's Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs James Cleverly, US Secretary of State Antony Blinken and Sweden's Foreign Minister Tobias Billstrom. (Photo: AFP)
Polish, Swedish, Finnish, and NATO flags are set up prior to the signing ceremony of the law ratifying the NATO Protocol on Finland and Sweden’s membership in Gdynia, Poland, in July 22 (Photo: MATEUSZ SLODKOWSKI/AFP VIA GETTY IMAGES)
