Russia's President Vladimir Putin and Iran's President Masoud Pezeshkian shake hands during a meeting on the sidelines of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) summit in Bishkek on September 1, 2026. (Photo: AFP)
A Type-88 missile is tested off the coast at the Japan Ground Self-Defense Force’s Shizunai Anti-Aircraft Firing Range in Hokkaido, Japan, on June 25, 2025. (Japan's military)
Tankers and cargo vessels are seen in the Gulf of Oman, along shipping routes linking the Strait of Hormuz and the Arabian Sea, June 16, 2026. (Photo: AP)
President Masoud Barzani (right) during his meeting with Victoria Taylor, Director of the Iraq Initiative at the Atlantic Council’s Middle East Program, Aug. 30, 2026. (Photo: Barzani Headquarters)
Turkish vessels, aircraft, and rescue rafts are pictured off the port of Kyrenia in the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus (TRNC), on Aug. 30, 2026. (AFP)
Kurdistan Region President Nechirvan Barzani (R) received Klemens Semtner, the European Union's ambassador to Iraq. (Photo: Kurdistan Region Presidency)
Police officers inspect the area, after a Russian attack struck a warehouse, followed by an explosion, in the village of Myla, Kyiv, Ukraine, Aug. 29, 2026. (AP)
The latest views of Rewan village's natural landscape in eastern Batifa district, within the Zakho Independent Administration. (Photo: Eslam Hiro/Kurdistan24)
A Ukrainian rescuer stand next to a truck with a spray of water as they work to extinguish a fire following an air attack at an undisclosed location in the Kyiv, Aug. 29, 2026. (AFP)
The rusting hull of the cargo ship Turgut S lies partially submerged in the shallow waters of Musura Bay, near the Black Sea port of Sulina, on May 10, 2026. (AFP)
The flag of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), is seen 28 October 2003 on the rubble of the ICRC headquarters in Baghdad which was attacked the previous day. (AFP)
