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  1. Daniel Bush on the left and Donald Trump on the right of a split screen.

  2. The Somaliland president, Abdirahman Mohamed Abdullahi, wearing a black suit, white shirt and red tie with traditional hat is posing with Eric Trump. Trump is wearing a blue suit and tie, with a white shirt.

  3. Woman wearing sunglasses looking towards camera while standing in the street

  4. One white shipping container and two grey ones are seen on a gravel area with sandy hills behind them. A small white building with a water tank on it is next to one of them.

  5. Syrian security force member pictured holding a gun and standing next to a blue metal gate at al hol camp with women in niqabs crowding at the gate

  6. Secretary of State Marco Rubio listens to a presentation about US plans for the "New Gaza", during the signing ceremony for President Donald Trump's new Board of Peace, at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland (22 January 2026)

  7. A smiling Donald Trump holds a signed founding charter at the 'Board of Peace' meeting during the 56th annual meeting of the World Economic Forum in Davos. His signature is at the bottom of the document and the words "Thank You!"

  8. Syrian government forces hold rifles while riding on a pick-up truck on the road to Raqqa, Syria (19 January 2026)

  9. US President Donald Trump meets with Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman

  10. Mourners carry the body of one of the three journalists killed in an Israeli strike, at Nasser hospital in Khan Younis, southern Gaza. The body is carried on a stretcher and covered in a white material with a press jacket laid on top.

  11. man stands in front of gate with prisoners behind

  12. Three Palestinian boys around 10 years old, wearing red football kit, wait in line to take a penalty. They are standing on a green astro turf football pitch with a metal fence behind them. Behind that stands a tall concrete wall

  13. A collage of a protester on the streets of Tehran, Iran in black and white but it is clear there is a fire burning behind them. On the right-hand side of the image leaked photos are presented in a gridded face wall showing some of the 392 faces sent to BBC Verify. The photos of dead victims show close up images of their blurred faces in the colour blue..

  14. File photo showing people walking around al-Hol camp, in Hassakeh province, north-eastern Syria (18 April 2025)

  15. A yellow excavator tears down a white tented structure at the Unrwa compound in East Jerusalem (20/01/26)

  16. Composite image of Trump and Putin

  17. Israeli bulldozers demolish parts of the headquarter of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) in the east Jerusalem neighborhood of Sheikh Jarrah, 20 January 2026.

  18. A Palestinian girl wearing a Brazil football shirt stands on a green football pitch next to part of the wall that isolates Israel from much of the occupied West Bank

  19. Syrian men celebrate from a car covered with a Syrian flag following a ceasefire agreement between the Syrian government and the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), in Raqqa, northern Syria (19 January 2026)

  20. Entrance to a supermarket with a glass front and an orange Sainsbury's logo on top.

  21. Magen David Adom ambulance and other vehicles on a street in north-west Jerusalem, near a daycare centre where two babies died (19 January 2026)

  22. Antonio Guterres gestures as he talks into a microphone with a plant in background during an interview with BBC

  23. Trump and Netanyahu speaking at a conference, while both wearing suits with red ties with Israeli and US flags in background

  24. A man is waving the Iranian flag in front of a crowd of people also waving Iranian flags. They are standing in a square which is wet from rain.