US Secretary of State Marco Rubio speaks to the press before boarding his plane at Homestead Air Reserve Base on May 21, 2026 in Homestead, Florida. (Photo: AFP)
Kurdistan Region Prime Minister Masrour Barzani (right) during his meeting with Bakr al-Samarrai, special adviser to Iraqi Prime Minister Ali Falih al-Zaidi, May 21, 2026. (Photo: KRG)
Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araqchi welcomes Pakistan army chief Asim Munir at an airport in Tehran, Iran, April 15, 2026. (Photo: Iranian Foreign Ministry)
In this picture that was taken on May 2, 2026, the Iran-flagged container vessel Hamouna is pictured while anchored as a small motorboat passes by, in the Strait of Hormuz. (Photo: ISNA)
US President Donald Trump greets Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan as Erdogan arrives at the White House in Washington, DC on September 25, 2025. (AFP)
Iranians sit at bus stop beneath a billboard depicting Iran's late supreme leader Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini (L), his successor the late Ayatollah Ali Khamenei (C) and the new supreme leader Mojtaba Khamenei in Tehran (Photo: AFP)
Copies of the People’s Daily newspaper with a front page photo and headline which reads "Xi Jinping holds talks with U.S. President Trump,” are displayed at a news stand, Beijing, China (AFP Photo)
KDP Politburo head, Fazil Mirani, (C-R), and the KJG supreme council member Abdulsatar Majeed speaking in a joint press conference, May 20, 2026. (Kurdistan24)
An Iranian military truck carries parts of a Sayad 4-B missile past a portrait of supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei during a military parade as part of a ceremony marking the country's annual army day (Photo: AFP)
US President Donald Trump joins leaders for a group photo during the inaugural meeting of the "Board of Peace" at the US Institute of Peace in Washington, DC, on February 19, 2026. (AFP)
US Vice President JD Vance speaks during a press briefing in the Brady Briefing Room of the White House in Washington, DC, on May 19, 2026. (Photo: AFP)
Russia's President Vladimir Putin is welcomed by Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi upon his arrival at Beijing Capital Airport in Beijing late on May 19, 2026. (Photo: AFP)
L-R: Kurdistan Region President Nechirvan Barzani and Italian President Sergio Mattarella, Rome,Tuesday May 19, 2026. (Photo: Kurdistan Region Presidency)
Photo shows vehicles belonging to the Iraqi Army and PMF driving during a military operation along the desert areas of Al-Hadar and Al-Baaj on May 17, 2026, extending to the border provinces with Syria. (Photo: Zaid al-Obeidi/ AFP)
Police officers and relatives of the victims gather outside a hospital in southern Türkiye as medics transfer injured people from an ambulance following a deadly shooting spree near Mersin, May 19, 2026. (AFP)
An Iraqi man walks across the Sinak Bridge over the Tigris River in central Baghdad on May 18, 2026, during a dust storm coming from western Iraq. (Photo by AHMAD AL-RUBAYE / AFP)
An ambulance arrives at the emergency entrance of a hospital in the southern Turkish city of Mersin carrying victims wounded in a deadly shooting, May 18, 2026. (AFP)
A commuter walks past a large tiled image of Iran's current leader Ayatollah Mojtaba Khamenei, at the entrance to the metro station in Tehran on May 9, 2026.
