Hundreds of people gather near a U.S. Air Force C-17 transport plane at the perimeter of the international airport in Kabul, Afghanistan, on Aug. 16, 2021. SIGAR, released its interim report Wednesday detailing why Afghanistan's government and military collapsed immediately after the U.S. withdrawal. Shekib Rahmani/AP hide caption
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Lebanese Interior Minister Bassam Mawlawi speaks during a press conference about Sunday's parliamentary elections, at the interior ministry in Beirut, Lebanon, on Monday. Hassan Ammar/AP hide caption
A mural in Gaza City of the Al Jazeera journalist Shireen Abu Akleh, who was shot and killed. Adel Hana/AP hide caption
People line up to vote during parliamentary elections in Beirut, Lebanon Sunday, May 15, 2022. Hussein Malla/AP hide caption
Israel's police chief orders an investigation into officers' conduct during Friday's funeral of Al Jazeera journalist Shireen Abu Akleh, who was killed while covering an Israeli arrest raid in a Palestinian refugee camp. Ahmad Gharabli/AFP via Getty Images hide caption
Rulers in the United Arab Emirates announced Saturday that they unanimously appointed Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan as the president of this hereditarily ruled nation on the Arabian Peninsula. Burhan Ozbilici/AP hide caption
Israeli police in riot gear confront mourners and the journalists on Friday covering the transfer from the hospital of slain Al Jazeera veteran journalist Shireen Abu Akleh to her final resting place in east Jerusalem. Abu Akleh, a Palestinian-American reporter, was shot dead Wednesday during an Israeli military raid in the West Bank town of Jenin. Mahmoud Illean/AP hide caption
UAE President Sheikh Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, in 2007. AP hide caption
Women watch an Al Jazeera obituary report on TV at the family home of Al Jazeera journalist Shireen Abu Akleh in the Palestinian neighborhood of Beit Hanina in Israeli-occupied east Jerusalem on Wednesday, after she was killed as she covered an Israeli army raid on Jenin refugee camp in the occupied West Bank. Ahmad Gharabli/AFP via Getty Images hide caption
Israeli forces secure the area of a stabbing attack in the town of Elad, on Thursday. Israeli medics say at least three people were killed. Maya Alleruzzo/AP hide caption
Ukrainian refugee Alina Archipova gives her daughter medication at a temporary shelter in Berlin, Germany, on March 10. Carsten Koall/Getty Images hide caption
Marc and Debra Tice, the parents of Austin Tice, are pictured in 2018. Bilal Hussein/AP hide caption
A child receives a polio vaccine in Kampala, Uganda, on Jan. 14, 2022. Nicholas Kajoba/Xinhua News Agency via Getty Images hide caption
A man uses cooking oil to fry Mandazi, a type of fried bread, on a street in the low-income Kibera neighborhood of Nairobi, Kenya, Wednesday, April 20, 2022. Khalil Senosi/AP hide caption
Archeologists work in the ruins of a temple for Zeus-Kasios, the ancient Greek god, at the Tell el-Farma archaeological site in the northwestern corner of the Sinai Peninsula. Tell el-Farma, also known by its ancient name Pelusium, dates back to the late Pharaonic period and was also used during Greco-Roman and Byzantine times. Egyptian Tourism and Antiquities Ministry via AP hide caption
Masks are just one protective measure for these airline passengers arriving in Shanghai from Paris. Hector Retamal /AFP via Getty Images hide caption
Israeli police clash with Palestinian protesters at the Al Aqsa Mosque compound in Jerusalem's Old City, Friday, April 22, 2022. Mahmoud Illean/AP hide caption
Israel's Iron Dome air defense system launches missiles to intercept rockets fired from the Gaza Strip toward Israel, over Gaza City, early Thursday, April 21, 2022. Adel Hana/AP hide caption
Two farmers take a break from sowing their field with oat, east of Kyiv on April 16. GENYA SAVILOV/AFP via Getty Images hide caption
It's planting season in Ukraine, and that means problems for global food supply
Volunteers unload food aid in Chena, Ethiopia, one of many parts of the world where conflict has fueled hunger. Jemal Countess/Getty Images hide caption
Ukraine crisis raises question: Does food aid go equally to 'Black and white lives'?
Israeli army soldiers guard a section of Israel's separation barrier last year in the West Bank village of Nilin, west of Ramallah. Two Palestinian men were critically injured by Israeli forces in the occupied West Bank on Monday, the Palestinian Health Ministry said, the latest incident in a wave of Israeli-Palestinian violence during the Muslim holy month of Ramadan. Nasser Nasser/AP hide caption
Israeli police is deployed in the Old City of Jerusalem, Sunday, April 17, 2022. Mahmoud Illean/AP hide caption
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