Anchal Vohra is a Brussels-based columnist at Foreign Policy who writes about Europe, the Middle East, and South Asia. She has covered the Middle East for the Times of London and has been a TV correspondent for Al Jazeera English and Deutsche Welle. She was previously based in Beirut and Delhi and has reported on conflict and politics from over two dozen countries.
Israeli volunteers tend to plants in a greenhouse growing tomatoes in Moshav Sde Nitzan, in southern Israel near the border with the Gaza Strip, on October 25, 2023.
Demonstrators wave German flags with the writing WE ARE THE PEOPLE as people protest against the rising cost of living in a demonstration organized by the right-wing Alternative for Germany (AfD) political party on October 8, 2022 in Berlin, Germany.
A Lebanese woman protester walks draped in a national flag along the Fuad Chehab avenue, near the Martyrs' Square, in the centre of the capital Beirut on October 29, 2019 on the 13th day of anti-government protests.
Iran's Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian welcomes Josep Borrell, the High Representative of the European Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy, at the foreign ministry headquarters in Iran's capital Tehran on June 25, 2022.
Indian opposition leader Rahul Gandhi, framed by the glowing orbs of out-of-focus lights, sits in a chair with his hands his lap and his legs crossed as he speaks at the National Press Club in Washington.
Britain's Prime Minister Rishi Sunak delivers a speech about mathematics to boost economic growth during a visit at the London Screen Academy in London on April 17, 2023.
Lebanese supporters and members of the Islamic group Jamaa Islamiya wave Turkish and Lebanese flags and flash the four finger symbol known as "Rabaa" during a demonstration to support Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan following a deadly but foiled coup attempt by an army faction on July 16, 2016 outside the Islamic Turkish hospital in the southern Lebanese port city of Sidon.
NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg welcomes Japan's Prime Minister Fumio Kishida prior to a meeting of the North Atlantic Council with Asia Pacific partners during the NATO Summit in Vilnius, Lithuania, on July 12, 2023.
Russian military officer Sergei Rudskoy sits below a map of Syria screened during a briefing at the headquarters of the Russian defense ministry in Moscow.