Iranian Forces and Allies Under Heavy Fire Across the Region

Peter Brian Hegseth is an American government official and former television personality who has served as the 29th United States secretary of defense since 2025.

Donald John Trump is an American politician, media personality, and businessman who is the 47th president of the United States. A member of the Republican Party, he served as the 45th president from 2017 to 2021.

Marco Antonio Rubio is an American politician, attorney, and diplomat serving as the 72nd United States secretary of state since 2025, also the acting national security advisor. A member of the Republican Party, he represented Florida in the U.S. Senate from 2011 to 2025.

Gideon Levy is an Israeli journalist and author. Levy writes opinion pieces and a weekly column for the newspaper Haaretz that often focus on the Israeli occupation of the Palestinian territories. He has won prizes for his articles on human rights in the Israeli-occupied territories. In 2021, he won Israel's top award for journalism, the Sokolov Award.

Manav Gupta is an Indian contemporary artist known for his paintings, installations and large-scale public art projects on environment consciousness and sustainable development. He has reinvented the identity of rural Indian clay pottery and redeployed various other material like construction scrap to create site specific, contemporary art and environmental installations and sculptures. He has been acknowledged as one of the most versatile and erudite contemporary artists to come from India and is widely regarded as a 'maverick genius' and a 'visionary'.

Sanae Takaichi is a Japanese politician who has been Prime Minister of Japan and President of the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) since October 2025. She is the first woman to hold either of these positions. A member of the House of Representatives from 1993 to 2003 and since 2005, she also held ministerial posts during the premierships of Shinzo Abe and Fumio Kishida.

Kim Yo Jong is a North Korean politician and diplomat, and sister of General Secretary of the Workers' Party of Korea Kim Jong Un. As of February 2026 she is the director of the Propaganda and Agitation Department of the Workers' Party of Korea (WPK). This high-level appointment occurred during the first plenary meeting of the 9th Central Committee, held alongside the Ninth Party Congress in Pyongyang. Since September 2021, she has been a member of State Affairs Commission of North Korea.

Valdis Dombrovskis is a Latvian politician serving as European Commissioner for Economy and Productivity, and Commissioner for Implementation and Simplification. He previously served as Executive Vice President of the European Commission for An Economy that Works for People (2019-2024), European Commissioner for Trade (2020-2024). European Commissioner for Financial Stability, Financial Services and Capital Markets Union (2016-2020) and Prime Minister of Latvia from 2009 to 2014.

Dmitriyev or Dmitriev is a common Russian surname that is derived from the male given name Dmitry and literally means Dmitry's. It may refer to:Aleksandr Dmitriyev (conductor), Russian conductor Alexey Dmitriev, Russian ice hockey player Andrei Dmitriev, Russian political dissident, publicist. Andrei Dmitriev, Russian writer Artur Dmitriev, Russian Olympic champion in figure skating Dmitri Dmitrijev, Estonian politician Dmitriy Dmitriyev, Russian professional football player Georgy Dmitriyev (1942–2016), a Russian composer Igor Dmitriev (1927–2008), Russian actor Ivan Dmitriev (1760–1837), Russian poet Ivan Dmitriev (canoeist), Russian canoeist Matvey Dmitriev-Mamonov (1790–1863), Russian poet, public and military figure Maxim Dmitriyev (1913–1990), Soviet army officer and Hero of the Soviet Union Mikhail Gennadiyevich Dmitriyev, Soviet and Russian mathematician Nikolai Dmitriev (1829–1893), Russian composer Nikolai Dmitriev (1898–1954), Soviet linguist Nikolai Dmitriev-Orenburgsky (1838–1898), Russian painter V. Dmitriev, soloist with the Alexandrov Ensemble Vladimir Dmitriyev (1900–1948), Soviet theater designer and painter Vladimir Karpovich Dmitriev (1868–1913), Russian economist, mathematician and statistician Yury Dmitriyev (1911–2006), Soviet theater and art critic Yury Dmitriyev, Soviet cyclist Yury A. Dmitriev, rights activist and Gulag historian

Pedro Sánchez Pérez-Castejón is a Spanish politician and economist who has served as Prime Minister of Spain since 2018. He has also been Secretary-General of the Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE) since 2017, having previously held that office from 2014 to 2016, and has also been serving as the ninth president of Socialist International since 2022.

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