Middle East

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  1. An Iranian couple on a motorbike with their dog in front ride on a highway in Tehran in 2022

  2. A woman pictured picking through broken cardboard boxes on the ground

  3. A treated image of displaced Palestinians queue for hot meals with a edited image of Jeremy Bowen on the side

  4. Palestinians wait in line to receive hot meals distributed by charity organizations while Israel's destructive attacks continue on 7 June, 2025.

  5. A picture of Nattapong Pinta, a 35-year-old Thai man

  6. A view of the main mosque in Mecca in a portrait taken in early 20th Century likely from Fort Jiyad, which was demolished in 2002.

  7. Jason Cox wearing his royal marines uniform stood behind a lectern

  8. Smoke and fire errupt from the site of an Israeli airstrike on Beirut's southern suburbs

  9. Gazans running after the Israeli strike on Khan Younis. Three men can be seen in the image. One man is wearing a grey jacket, the others are wearing t-shirts. A damaged building can be seen in the image.

  10. US Secretary of State Marco Rubio sits before a House subcommittee in Washington DC on 21 May 2025.

  11. A woman smiling at the camera wearing a hat, red scarf, green jumper and a blue top. You can see a group of sheep behind her and she appears to be in a .cave

  12. Israeli tanks are positioned along the border with the Gaza Strip.

  13. Memorial to victims of the Lockerbie bombing

  14. Judi Weinstein Haggai and her husband Gadi Haggai

  15. Relatives mourn three Palestinian journalists who were among five people killed in an Israeli strike on the compound of al-Ahli hospital, in Gaza City, on 5 June 2025

  16. Emergency service personnel standing next to the fuselage of Pan Am flight 103 after it was downed over Lockerbie in Scotland

  17. President Mahamat Idriss Deby Itno at a summit in Turkey in 2021.

  18. Feras Kilani stands on a street in Damascus, Syria. In the background, Syrian security forces are deployed with a truck-mounted anti-aircraft gun (7 May 2025)

  19. Police standing on the street

  20. Handout photo from the Supreme Leader's Office showing Ayatollah Ali Khamenei speaking during a marking the anniversary of the death of Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini in Tehran, Iran (4 June 2025)

  21. Muslims make their way to Mina during the Hajj pilgrimage, in Mecca, Saudi Arabia (4 June 2025)

  22. Palestinians, including children inspect the site after an Israeli airstrike severely damaged the Al-Ansar Mosque and partially destroyed the surrounding cemetery in Deir al-Balah, located in the central Gaza Strip on June 03, 2025

  23. Head of ICRC in a blazer and glasses

  24. Reverend Randy Spaulding of Boulder Mennonite Church, right, hugs Rabbi Ruth Gelfarb of Congregation Har HaShem at the Boulder county courthouse on Pearl Street in Boulder