Supporters of the main opposition Republican People's Party (CHP) celebrate the election of Ekrem Imamoglu as mayor of Istanbul, outside the City Hall building in Istanbul, Turkey, April 17, 2019.  

A woman gestures with her hands chained during a rally marking Palestinian Prisoners' Day and calling for the release of jailed Palestinians held by Israel, Gaza City, Gaza, April 17, 2019.

A transparent cup containing what scientists say is the world's first 3D-printed, vascularised engineered heart, Tel Aviv University, Israel, April 15, 2019. 

The draw for the Africa Cup of Nations soccer tournament takes place in Giza, Egypt, April 12, 2019. 

Troops from the eastern Libyan forces stand against a wall after being captured by forces loyal to the internationally recognized Libyan government, Ain Zara, Libya, April 11, 2019. 

A competitor splashes water on his face during the fourth stage of the Marathon des Sables, a 250km race through the Sahara desert, southern Morocco, April 10, 2019. 

A man reacts as he lowers his daughter's body into a grave during the funerals of people who were killed by a blast in Sanaa, Yemen, April 10, 2019. 

Racing camels and their handlers arrive prior to the start of the Al Marmoom Heritage Festival at the Al Marmoom Camel Racetrack in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, April 8, 2019. 

Pigeons fly in front of a large poster of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan in Bursa, Turkey, April 6, 2019.

Dancers perform a work entitled 'Minaret' by choreographer and dancer Omar Rajeh, Beirut, Lebanon, April 4, 2019. The play revolves around the 1,000-year-old minaret of the Great Mosque of Aleppo, which now lies in ruins. 

A young Yemeni girl looks at plastic containers as people wait to collect water from a tank in Taez, Yemen, April 3, 2019. The war in Yemen has left thousands dead and has triggered the world's worst humanitarian crisis, according to the United Nations. 

People celebrate after Algeria's President Abdelaziz Bouteflika announced his resignation, Algiers, Algeria, April 2, 2019. 

Shiite pilgrims carry a symbolic casket outside Imam Moussa al-Kadhim's shrine during a procession to mark the anniversary of his death, Baghdad, Iraq, April 2, 2019. 

Supporters of the main opposition Republican People's Party (CHP) wave flags and light flares in celebration of local elections in Istanbul, Turkey, April 1, 2019. 

A boy holds a model of the Dome of the Rock during a protest marking Land Day in Amman, Jordan, March 29, 2019. 

A view of the rose-shaped National Museum of Qatar, due to open this week after a three year delay, Doha, Qatar, March 28, 2019.

The new Saudi Arabian Ambassador to Germany, Prince Faisal bin Farhan Al Saud, attends a ceremony at Bellevue Palace in Berlin, Germany, March 27, 2019. 

Smoke and flames are seen during an Israeli airstrike on Gaza City, Gaza Strip, March 25, 2019.

A fighter from the Syrian Democratic Forces holds her weapon as the end of the Islamic State's control of land in eastern Syria is announced, Deir Al Zor, Syria, March 23, 2019. 

A man puts up a picture of a child missing after a Tigris river ferry sank, an accident that is so far known to have claimed close to 100 lives, outside a morgue in Mosul, Iraq, March 22, 2019.

A Kurdish man carries torches as he celebrates Nowruz, a festival marking the first day of spring and the New Year, while other people make a procession up the mountain behind him, Akra, Iraqi Kurdistan, March 20, 2019. 

Palestinian protesters hurl stones at Israeli troops during clashes near the Jewish settlement of Beit El, Israeli-occupied West Bank, March 20, 2019. 

Turkish riot police use a water cannon to disperse demonstrators protesting the death of a Kurdish prison inmate, Diyarbakir, Turkey, March 18, 2019. 

Mourners attend the funeral of Armenian Patriarch Mesrob II Mutafyan at Surp Asdvadzadzin Patriarchal Church in Istanbul, Turkey, March 17, 2019. 

Smoke and flames are seen during an Israeli airstrike on the Gaza Strip, March 15, 2019. 

Jewish Power party's Itamar Ben Gvir (L) argues with the Israeli Arab candidate Atta Abu Miniam after a hearing at the Israeli Supreme Court in Jerusalem, March 14, 2019. 

The Suleymaniye Mosque is seen at sunset in Istanbul, Turkey, March 11, 2019. 

Islamic State members walk through the last neighborhood the besieged group is occupying in the village of Baghouz, Syria, March 10, 2019. 

Relatives of Palestinian Samah Mubarak mourn during her funeral in Ramallah, Israeli-occupied West Bank, March 9, 2019. 

A Yazidi woman lights a candle during a ceremony on International Women’s Day to commemorate women killed by Islamic State militants, Shikhan, northern Iraq, March 8, 2019. 

Hollywood actress and social activist Susan Sarandon is seen during a visit to Burj al-Barajneh refugee camp in Beirut, Lebanon, March 4, 2019. 

A boy looks into the camera as he lines up with a group of women, near Baghouz, Syria, March 5, 2019. 

The crew of an Amphibious Landing Ship, Tank pose after a landing drill during the Blue Homeland naval exercise off the Aegean coastal town of Foca, Izmir Bay, Turkey, March 5, 2019. 

Palestinian stone-throwers run during clashes with Israeli forces close to the Jewish settlement of Beit El, near Ramallah, Israeli-occupied West Bank, March 4, 2019. 

A car, trapped by flooding caused by heavy rainfall, is seen after a person was rescued from it, Arazim Valley, near Jerusalem, Feb. 28, 2019. 

A Syrian Democratic Forces fighter sits on a vehicle near the village of Baghouz, Syria, Feb. 27, 2019. 

Rescue workers and members of the public gather at the scene of a deadly fire at the main train station in Cairo, Egypt, Feb. 27, 2019. 

Children sit together near the village of Baghouz, Syria, Feb. 25, 2019. 

Britain's Prince Harry and Meghan, Duchess of Sussex, arrive to visit a secondary school in Asni, Morocco, Feb. 24, 2019. 

People take part in a march from the city of Aqaba to demand more employment opportunities, on the highway near Amman, Jordan, Feb. 20, 2019. 

A Turkish military armored vehicle takes part in the Turkish Army's annual winter military exercises, near Kars, Turkey, Feb. 21, 2019. 

Yemeni girls stand in line to get free food from a local charity at a school in Sanaa, Yemen, Feb. 19, 2019. 

Mourners carry a coffin containing the body of Mahmoud Abou El Yazied, an Egyptian police officer killed by a suicide bomber, Cairo, Egypt, Feb. 19, 2019. 

Boys wear costumes and carry Libyan flags to celebrate the eighth anniversary of the revolution that ousted Moammar Gadhafi, Benghazi, Libya, Feb. 17, 2019. 

Israeli soldiers walk past burning tires during clashes with Palestinian protestors following a demonstration against Jewish settlements, Urif village, West Bank, Feb. 15, 2019. 

Women sit with their belongings near Baghouz, Syria, Feb. 12, 2019.

A US Air Force aircraft lands in Beirut International Airport, Beirut, Lebanon, Feb. 13, 2019.

A member of the Syrian Democratic Forces stands on a pickup truck mounted with a weapon, near Baghouz, Syria, Feb. 11, 2019. 

An Egyptian water skier practices on the Nile in Cairo, Egypt, Feb. 10, 2019. 

Flamingos fly over salt pools on the Israeli side of the border between Israel and Jordan, Feb. 7, 2019.

Rescue workers search for survivors at the site of a collapsed residential building in the Kartal district of Istanbul, Turkey, Feb. 6, 2019. 

Avigdor Lieberman, Yisrael Beiteinu party leader and Israel's former defense minister, is photographed on the campaign trail for upcoming elections during a visit to the Israeli-annexed Golan Heights, Feb. 5, 2019. 

A Maltese guard of honor stands at ease before a welcoming ceremony for Tunisian President Beji Caid Essebsi, Valletta, Malta, Feb. 5, 2019.

Pope Francis stands next to the Grand Imam of al-Azhar, Sheikh Ahmed al-Tayeb, during a visit to Sheikh Zayed Grand Mosque in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, Feb. 4, 2019.

A Turkish-backed Syrian fighter keeps position near the town of Tal Hajar, northern Aleppo province, Syria, Feb. 1, 2019.

Visitors look at ancient Egyptian paintings on the newly renovated walls of Pharaoh Tutankhamun's tomb in the Valley of the Kings, Luxor, Egypt, Jan. 31, 2019.

Iranian Vice President Eshaq Jahangiri (C-L) meets with Syria's President Bashar al-Assad (C-R) in Damascus, Syria, in a handout released by SANA on Jan. 29, 2019.

A visitor takes part in a laser beam challenge on the Israeli police stand at the Cybertech 2019 conference in Tel Aviv, Israel, Jan. 29, 2019. 

Palestinian demonstrators are seen through a burning tire during clashes with Israeli forces in al-Mughayer village, occupied West Bank, Jan. 27, 2019. 

People gather at the site of a car bomb blast in Damascus, Syria, Jan. 24, 2019. 

A Palestinian demonstrator scuffles with an Israeli border police officer during a protest in the village of Anata, occupied West Bank, Jan. 23, 2019. 

A man bathes horses in a natural hot spring surrounded by snow, eastern Bitlis province, Turkey, Jan. 22, 2019. 

Pigeons fly around a 3-week-old female white rhinoceros and her mother at the Safari Zoo in Ramat Gan, Israel, Jan. 21, 2019. 

Fans holds up posters of Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman before an AFC Asian Cup match between Qatar and Saudi Arabia at Zayed Sports City Stadium, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, Jan. 17, 2019. 

A man covers his face during a sandstorm near the River Nile in Cairo, Egypt, Jan. 16, 2019. 

US surfer Ben Coffey rides a wave during the World Surf League SEAT Pro Netanya qualification event in Netanya, Israel, Jan. 15, 2019. 

The wreckage of a Boeing 707 military cargo plane that crashed into buildings near Fath airport, Karaj, Iran, Jan. 14, 2019. 

A pilgrim takes a dip in the River Jordan during a baptism ceremony at Qasr el-Yahud, near Jericho, in the Israeli-occupied West Bank, Jan. 13, 2019.

A security guard looks through a window as US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo speaks to students at the American University in Cairo, Egypt, Jan.10, 2019.

A blacksmith sits in his shop at the Souq al-Melh market in the old quarter of Sanaa, Yemen, Jan. 9, 2019.

A Palestinian girl looks out of a car as her family returns to Gaza, Rafah border crossing, southern Gaza Strip, Jan. 8, 2019. 

Seagulls fly over the Bourj Hammoud garbage dump during stormy weather, Beirut, Lebanon, Jan. 8, 2019. 

A worshipper walks inside the Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem, occupied West Bank, Jan. 6, 2019.

A Turkish-backed Syrian rebel warms himself by a fire in Tadef, Aleppo Governorate, Syria, Jan. 3, 2019. 

Supporters of the Palestinian Fatah movement wave flags during a rally marking the 54th anniversary of the creation of the party, Nablus, occupied West Bank, Jan. 3, 2019. 

Saudi men fire weapons as they perform a traditional dance during the Janadriyah Cultural Festival on the outskirts of Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, Jan. 1, 2019. 

A Palestinian woman looks out of her shelter on a rainy day in Khan Younis, southern Gaza Strip, Dec. 30, 2018. 

Emirati competitors take part in the Dhafra Camel Festival in the desert west of Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, Dec. 28, 2018.  

US President Donald Trump and First Lady Melania Trump greet military personnel during an unannounced visit to Al Asad Air Base, Iraq, Dec. 26, 2018. 

A man dressed as Santa Claus passes through an Israeli checkpoint on the way to attend Christmas celebrations in Bethlehem, occupied West Bank, Dec. 24, 2018. 

People walk through the Sheikh Zayed Grand Mosque after attending Friday prayers, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, Dec. 21,2018. 

A fan seen outside Zayed Sports City Stadium before the Club World Cup soccer match between Kashima Antlers and Real Madrid, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, Dec. 19, 2018. 

Paratroopers from the Qatari armed forces take part in National Day celebrations in Doha, Qatar, Dec. 18, 2018.

Women hold a portrait of Selahattin Demirtas, the jailed former leader of Turkey's pro-Kurdish Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP), as they attend a protest against the economic policies of the government, Diyarbakir, Turkey, Dec. 16, 2018.

Statues are seen inside a newly discovered tomb which dates back 4400 years to the rule of King Neferirkare Kakai, Giza, Egypt, Dec. 15, 2018.

A Palestinian is surrounded by smoke during clashes with Israeli troops near the Jewish settlement of Beit El, near Ramallah, in the Israeli-occupied West Bank, Dec. 13, 2018. 

Rescue workers search through wreckage after a high-speed train crash in Ankara, Turkey, Dec. 13, 2018. 

A visitor walks through a traditional Arabic light shop in downtown Manama, Bahrain, Dec. 10, 2018. 

A Syrian child carries a sack through a camp for displaced people near the village of Shamarin, northern Aleppo province, Syria, Dec. 6, 2018. 

The damage outside a police station after a suicide car bomb attack in Chabahar, Iran, Dec. 6, 2018. 

Iraqi security forces detain a demonstrator during an anti-government protest in Basra, Iraq, Dec. 4, 2018.​ 

Muslim Brotherhood members are seen behind bars during a court session in Cairo, Egypt, Dec. 2, 2018. 

Relatives of citizens who disappeared during Lebanon’s civil war hold up pictures of them during a press conference in Downtown Beirut, Lebanon, Nov. 28, 2018. The press conference discussed a new law that will investigate the circumstances of the disappearances. 

Israeli ultra-Orthodox Jewish men take part in a protest against the detention of a member of their community who refuses to serve in the Israeli army, Jerusalem, Nov. 28, 2018.  

People take part in a protest opposing Saudi Arabia's Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman's visit to Tunis, Tunisia, Nov. 27, 2018. 

Israeli soldiers inspect the scene of a car-ramming attack near Hebron, in the occupied West Bank, Nov. 26, 2018. 

Archaeologists remove the cover of an intact sarcophagus inside tomb TT33 in Luxor, Egypt, Nov. 24, 2018. 

Fans watch practice laps ahead of the Formula One Abu Dhabi Grand Prix at Yas Marina Circuit, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, Nov. 23, 2018.