You can tell the strength of a nation by the women behind its men.
Benjamin Disraeli
A large billboard shows the face of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan fading into the flag of ISIS in Benghazi, Libya. (Abdullah DOMA / AFP)An Iraqi Kurdish Peshmerga female officer bites a snake while demonstrating skills during a graduation ceremony in Soran, in Arbil. (SAFIN HAMED / AFP)Rudi Hartono, dressed in Spiderman costume, looks at plastic waste as he collects rubbish at a beach in Pare-Pare, South Sulawesi Province, Indonesia. (Stringer / Reuters)Abed El-Hamed Atiya, an Iraqi prisoner suspected of being part of ISIS, kept apart from other prisoners, some of whom strongly object to his art, inside a prison in Hasaka, Syria. (Goran Tomasevic / REUTERS)Activists from the Youth for Climate Justice movement protest during the last Valentine’s Day performance against the national energy and climate plan in Ljubljana, Slovenia. (Reuters)Bouquets of roses with medical face masks are displayed at a market, after fear that the coronavirus had swept the country, in Manila, Philippines. (Francis R Malasig / EPA)A pair of mice fighting over a scrap of food at a London tube station, UK. (Sam Rowley / Wildlife Photographer of the Year / PA)A man holding a loudspeaker sits on a motorcycle as it travels past a vehicle disinfecting a residential area following the coronavirus outbreak, in Panyu, China. (China Daily / Reuters)Turkish soldiers gather in the village of Qaminas, Syria. (Omar Haj Kadour / AFP / Getty Images)An American patrol and Syrian regime forces under the eyes of Russian military police in the al-Qamishli countryside, in Syria. (MOHAMMED HASSAN)