Smoke rising from fires reportedly ignited at a site targeted by Israeli artillery shelling in the southern village of Kfar Tibnit on June 15, 2026. (Photo: AFP)
US Secretary of War Pete Hegseth delivers remarks before a NATO Defense Ministers meeting at the NATO headquarters, in Brussels, on June 18, 2026. (AFP)
NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte makes a statement upon arriving to take part in a NATO Defense Ministers meeting at the NATO headquarters, in Brussels, on June 18, 2026. (AFP)
US President Donald Trump addresses the media during a closing press conference at the G7 summit, in Evian, eastern France, on June 17, 2026. (Photo: AFP)
Liu Jun, the Chinese Consul General to the Kurdistan Region delivering the speech during the event of the International Day for Dialogue among Civilizations, June 17, 2026. (Photo: Kurdistan24)
Egypt's President Abdel Fattah El-Sisi (L) and US President Donald Trump attend a bilateral meeting on the sidelines of the G7 summit, in Evian, eastern France, on June 17, 2026. (AFP)
Former Turkish Energy Minister Taner Yıldız (2nd L) and former Iraqi Oil Minister Hussein al-Shahristani (2nd R) sign a 15-year extension of the Kirkuk–Ceyhan pipeline deal in Baghdad on September 19, 2010. (
President Donald Trump poses for a photo with Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu before he boards Air Force One at Ben Gurion International Airport, Oct. 13, 2025. (AP)
The meeting of Kurdistan Region President Nechirvan Barzani, U.S. Special Presidential Envoy for Iraq and Syria Tom Barrack and SDF Commander-in-Chief Mazloum Abdi, June 16, 2026. (Photo: Kurdistan Region Presidency)
President Masoud Barzani (right) during his meeting with Tom Barrack, U.S. Presidential Special Envoy for Syria and Iraq, June 16, 2026. (Photo: Designed by Kurdistan24)
Kurdistan Region Prime Minister Masrour Barzani (right) shaking hands with His Beatitude Patriarch Mar Polis III Nona, head of the Chaldean Catholic Church in Iraq and worldwide, June 16, 2026. (Photo: KRG)
L-R: Kurdistan Region Prime Minister Masrour Barzani and His Beatitude Mar Paul III Nona, the Patriarch of the Chaldean Church in Iraq and the World. (Photo: Kurdistan24)
Ghalibaf, an influential figure, has grown in prominence since the start of the war and was the lead negotiator in the so far only round of direct US-Iranian talks. (AFP)
A man exchanges U.S. dollars at street money changer in the main Shurja market in central Baghdad, Iraq, Saturday, Jan. 14, 2023. (AP Photo/Hadi Mizban)
A billboard on which hangs a portrait of Lebanese President Joseph Aoun and reads, 'Diplomacy is the way to end war in Lebanon' along the highway of the coastal city of Sidon in southern Lebanon, June 15, 2026. (AFP)
