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![<p>Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps personnel in Tehran, Iran, in September 2024.</p>]()
![<p>A man adds a tire to a burning barricade during a protest against insecurity in the Pétion-Ville neighborhood of Port-au-Prince, Haiti, on April 2, 2025.</p>]()
By Natalie Caloca, Molly Carlough and Abi McGowan![<p>Myanmar’s military chief Min Aung Hlaing attends a meeting with Russia’s President Vladimir Putin at the Kremlin in Moscow, Russia, on September 25, 2025.</p>]()
By Joshua Kurlantzick![<p>Village security volunteers patrol a village amid deadly clashes between Thailand and Cambodia along a disputed border area, in Buriram province, Thailand, on December 9, 2025.</p>]()
By Joshua Kurlantzick![<p>Members of the National Anti-Extortion and Kidnapping Command take part in a rally against a possible escalation of U.S. actions toward the country, in Caracas, Venezuela, November 25, 2025.</p>]()
By Roxanna Vigil![<p>U.S. President Donald Trump holds a picture of himself with Rwanda’s Foreign Minister Olivier Nduhungirehe, during a meeting with Nduhungirehe and the Democratic Republic of the Congo’s Foreign Minister Therese Kayikwamba Wagner on June 27, 2025. </p>]()
By Michelle Gavin![<p>A monk stands near a damaged dorm at Thai Niyom temple, which was hit by Cambodian artillery during the Thailand-Cambodia border conflict in Surin Province, Thailand on November 3.</p>]()
By Joshua Kurlantzick and Annabel Richter![<p>After fleeing El Fasher, displaced Sudanese rest in the camp of Um Yanqur in western Darfur, November 3, 2025.</p>]()
By Mariel Ferragamo and Diana Roy![<p> A desk bearing signs of shelling in a school where displaced people are sheltering in El Fasher, Sudan on October 7, 2025. </p>]()
By Michelle Gavin![How food is being used as a weapon in Gaza, Sudan, and Ukraine]()
By Michael Werz, Michelle Gavin, David J. Scheffer, Thamine Nayeem, Molly McAnany, Jeremy Sherlick, Markus Zakaria and Ivana Saric![<p>A boy holds a Palestinian flag on top of a mound of rubble in the central Gaza Strip. </p>]()
By Mariel Ferragamo and Diana Roy![<p>British Foreign Secretary David Lammy holds up a copy of the UN Charter as he speaks during a UN Security Council meeting on the conflict between Ukraine and Russia at the United Nations headquarters in New York City on September 24, 2024.</p>]()
By David J. Scheffer![<p>Crowds form in Gaza City as Palestinians line up to receive food distributed by a charity amid an ongoing Israeli blockade.</p>]()
By Mariel Ferragamo![<p>A worker rests on top of sacks of aid stacked in a storage tent as Congolese refugees gather waiting for a chance to receive food assistance in Giharo, Democratic Republic of Congo.</p>]()
By Mariel Ferragamo![<p>Smoke billows over destroyed buildings in Gaza during an Israeli strike, July 17, 2025.</p>]()
By Steven A. Cook![Women’s Participation in Peace Processes]()
By Ann Norris, Jamille Bigio, Rachel B. Vogelstein, Alexandra Bro and Anne Connell![<p>A Cambodian military personnel stands on a BM-21 Grad multiple rocket launcher in Oddar Meanchey province, Cambodia, on July 25, 2025.</p>]()
By Joshua Kurlantzick![<p>Servicemembers perform preflight checks at Al Udeid Air Base, Qatar.</p>]()
By Mariel Ferragamo, Diana Roy, Jonathan Masters and Will Merrow![<p>The view from a living room of a residential building that was destroyed in an attack by Israel on June 13, 2025, in Tehran, Iran.</p>]()
By Michael Froman
