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  1. Iran's Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi

  2. Runners taking a selfie at the start of the marathon

  3. US President Donald Trump speaks to reporters Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool in Washington DC.

  4. A woman in a black patterned burqa is escorted by women in suits in a corridor, all have blurred faces

  5. A mug shot of Soliman wearing a white shirt with bandage on his ear

  6. A photograph showing an Israeli soldier smoking and placing another cigarette on the mouth of a statue of the Virgin Mary in southern Lebanon

  7. Israeli soldiers looking at the destroyed Jabalia area, in the northern Gaza Strip, from near Kibbutz Nir Am, Israel (22 April 2026)

  8. People walk beside a van with their belongings for departure at the Roj camp in al Malikiyah, Syria on 15 February 2026

  9. A yellow and green helicopter is pictured from the side, with its nose facing the left. It is in flight and a rooftop and the upper branches of a bare tree can be seen in the background.

  10. Iranians walk next to a picture of Iran supreme leader Ayatollah Mojtaba Khamenei in a street in Tehran, Iran

  11. Cars on a road in Qatar, as smoke billows into the sky after an alleged Iranian attack

  12. Emergency service workers outside a damaged building in Beirut

  13. US President Donald Trump looking in the direction of a camera. There is BBC Verify branding on the top left.

  14. President Donald Trump at the White House on 6 May 2026

  15. US President Donald Trump wearing a black suit with a blue tie sat in the Oval Office with a pen in his hand.

  16. Abbas Araqchi and Wang Yi shaking hands as they pose for a photo

  17. A man sits in rubble in corniche al mazraa

  18. A number of commercial ships seen in the Strait of Hormuz

  19. Donald Trump.

  20. A woman in a headscarf and dark glasses with other women in headscarves and faces masks behind her.

  21. Middle-aged man, Mohammed, in ruins of wrecked apartment block

  22. Brazilian activist Thiago Ávila is surrounded by Israeli security personnel at a court in the Israeli coastal city of Ashkelon on 5 May 2026