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  1. Orange light from explosion seen over Gaza skyline

  2. A man wearing a woolly hat and a grey jumper stands amidst debris in Khan Younis in southern Gaza Strip

  3. A woman, with her arms stretched out, sits on top of a wagon carrying her belongings and young children through rubble

  4. Yemenis inspect rubble. Men wearing mostly brown stand among the concretes ruins

  5. A person inspects the damage at a cordoned off area, a day after US airstrikes targeted a nearby position, in Sana'a, Yemen, on 16 March 2025

  6. Sharone Lifschitz wears a black jumper and embraces her father, Oded Lifsthiz, who wears a hat and glasses

  7. Men stand amid rubble in front of a damaged building in Saada

  8. An elderly Palestinian man walks past a destroyed building in Gaza City

  9. A woman wearing black clothing looks distressed as she's helped by people around her

  10. Woman wearing a black headscarf and a light coloured coat holds up a passport-sized photo of her son

  11. A thermal imaging display of a missile heading towards a vehicle that the US and Iraq said contained an Islamic State leader

  12. The suitcase which is brown leather with faded stickers on it. It has two locks for its metal clasps. It is sitting on a wooden table with an old, reddish coloured book in front of it.

  13. Druze people in Majdal Shams welcome buses carrying a Druze delegation from Syria

  14. An Iranian woman without a mandatory headscarf, or hijab, walks in a street in Tehran, with another woman who is wearing a hijab.

  15. 2440 by 1373 pixels2440 x 1373 pixels Alternative description Iran's Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, addresses students in Tehran, Iran (12 March 2025)

  16. Dalaal Mahna gesturing with her hand while speaking and looking upset

  17. Syria's interim President Ahmed al-Sharaa has signed a constitutional declaration covering a five-year transitional period, at the presidential palace in Damascus, Syria (13 March 2025)

  18. A woman in a red top that reads 'not in our name' has her hand behind her back and is being escorted up an escalator by a police officer

  19. Palestinians ride bicycles past the war-damaged al-Basma IVF Centre in Gaza City, northern Gaza

  20. File photo showing the Bushehr nuclear power plant, in Bushehr province, southern Iran (29 April 2024)

  21. Mahmoud Khalil speaks at a press event with other Columbia University protesters

  22. Palestinians walk through a street market in Khan Younis, southern Gaza

  23. Alawite Syrians, who fled the violence in western Syria, cross the Nahr el-Kabir river in Akkar, Lebanon (11 March 2025)

  24. SDF commander Mazloum Abdi (L) shakes hands with interim Syrian President Ahmed al-Sharaa in Damascus on 10 March 2025