An Iraqi army cadet participates in “the leap of faith”, from a bridge as part of their training, in Baghdad, Iraq on December 15, 2023. (Photo by Ahmed Saad/Reuters)

A displaced Palestinian boy, who fled from home due to Israeli strikes, gets a haircut at a tent camp in Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip on January 8, 2024. (Photo by Ibraheem Abu Mustafa/Reuters)

A woman in the Sabean Mandaean community takes part in a ritual during the Prosperity Day celebration in the Tigris River in central Baghdad, Iraq, Tuesday, November 1, 2022. (Photo by Hadi Mizban/AP Photo)

A man takes a block of ice out of an ice factory for sale in Iraq's southern city of Basra on July 8, 2023. (Photo by Hussein Faleh/AFP Photo)

Syrian rescue workers and residents help an injured woman following a reported air strike by government forces on the rebel-held neighbourhood of Haydariya in the northern city of Aleppo on April 10, 2016. (Photo by Thaer Mohammed/AFP Photo)

Iraqi forces gather during an operation to attack Islamic State militants in Mosul, Iraq, October 21, 2016. (Photo by Reuters/Stringer)

A burning tank is in Daraa, on March 9, 2013. (Photo by Ali Abu-Salah/Reuters/Shaam News Network via The Atlantic)

A Palestinian girl cries as she stands above debris near a house that was hit during Israeli strikes in Khan Yunis in the southern Gaza Strip, on April 2, 2025. Israeli Defence Minister Israel Katz announced on April 2, a major expansion of military operations in Hamas-run Gaza, saying the army would seize “large areas” of the Palestinian territory. (Photo by Eyad Baba/AFP Photo)