Russia's President Vladimir Putin meets with the media during the International United Cultures Forum at the Mariinsky Theatre in Saint Petersburg on September 25, 2026. (AFP)
A sailor from the navy of Yemen's Aden-based internationally recognised government stands at a machine-gun position aboard a vessel patrolling a shipping lane off Hanish Island in the Red Sea on July 27, 2026. (AFP)
The United Nations emblem displayed in the General Assembly Hall during the 81st session of the U.N.G.A at the U.N. HQ, Sept. 24, 2026 in New York City. (AFP)
Mohammed Hussein Bahr Al-Uloom (right), Undersecretary for Bilateral Relations, and Steven Fagin, Acting Chargé d’Affaires at the US Embassy in Baghdad, Sept. 24, 2026. (Photo: INA)
Smoke billows from burning tires blocking a bridge over the Euphrates River in the Centre of the southern Iraqi city of Nasiriyah, on November 12, 2019. (AFP)
A U.S. Air Force B-1B Lancer bomber takes off on a strike mission from Diego Garcia in the Indian Ocean against Taliban targets in Afghanistan on Oct. 7, 2001. (U.S. Navy)
President Masoud Barzani (right) during his meeting with Russia’s Consul General in Erbil, Maxim Rubin, Sept. 23, 2026. (Photo: Barzani’s headquarters)
