A man prepares plastic strings, used to produce mats, inside a mat factory in the rebel-controlled area of Maarshureen town in Idlib province, Syria, December 22, 2015. The town is known for the significant number of mat factories which exports its production mainly to nearby Iraq through checkpoints controlled by insurgents. But in the past months the business has declined due to heavy airstrikes against insurgents, vendors said. (Photo by Khalil Ashawi/Reuters)

A Ukrainian serviceman smiles on May 21, 2024 during a moment of calm in the southeastern town of Orikhiv, Zaporizhzhia, which has been heavily damaged by Russian military strikes. (Photo by Reuters/Stringer)

A doll holding a replica of a AK47 gun is set on a tailpiece of a rocket on a roadside in a village near the town of Avdiivka, Donetsk region, on June 28, 2023, amid the Russian invasion of Ukraine. (Photo by Genya Savilov/AFP Photo)

Uzbekistan's Javokhir Sindarov in action against Hans Niemann of the U.S. during the Diving Chess Competition in Cape Town, South Africa, on December 4, 2025. (Photo by Esa Alexander/Reuters)

The walls of Sydney's Town Hall Station are bedecked to resemble a Woolworths' supermarket shelf in Australia's first virtual supermarket, at Town Hall Station on February 19, 2012 in Sydney, Australia. (Photo by Marianna Massey/Getty Images for Woolworths)

A group of girls hit the town in York, United Kingdom on December 30, 2020. Revellers hit the streets for a final drink before being plunged into Tier 4 lockdown. (Photo by Nb press ltd)

A Ukrainian serviceman takes a rest near the town of Bakhmut, in the Donetsk region on April 28, 2023, amid the Russian invasion on Ukraine. (Photo by Dimitar Dilkoff/AFP Photo)

Pedestrians cross a road in Cape Town, South Africa Saturday, March 28, 2020, as South Africa went into a nationwide lockdown for 21 days in an effort to control the spread of the coronavirus. (Photo by Nardus Engelbrecht/AP Photo)