Center for Peace and Security in the Middle East

Vladimir Putin with Ibrahim Traore and Dennis Fassou Nguesso during the annual Navy Day Parade on July 30, 2023, in Saint Petersburg, Russia. (via Getty Images)

DeAnne Connolly Graham joins with others for an interfaith Rally Against Anti-Semitism on June 3, 2021, in Miami Beach, Florida. (Joe Raedle via Getty Images)

Chinese President Xi Jinping attends the China-Gulf Cooperation Council Summit in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, on December 9, 2022. (Xinhua via Getty Images)

Joe Biden boards Air Force One before departing from King Abdulaziz International Airport on July 16, 2022. (Mandel Ngan via Getty Images)

An Iranian-made surface-to-surface missile is displayed next to the Azadi tower during a rally to mark the forty-forth anniversary of Iran's 1979 Islamic Revolution on February 11, 2023. (Morteza Nikoubazl/NurPhoto via Getty Images)

Recep Tayyip Erdogan and Joe Biden shake hands at the start of the first plenary session of the NATO summit in Madrid on June 29, 2022. (Gabriel Bouys/AFP via Getty Images)

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Black smoke rises above the Khartoum International Airport amid ongoing battles on April 20, 2023. (AFP via Getty Images)