Cars burning in the parking lot after a Russian drone strike on Friday in Dnipro, Ukraine.

A Gazprom gas processing plant in the Orenburg region of Russia.

Jared Kushner and Steve Witkoff with President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine in Kyiv last month.

It’s been a year since Israel and Hamas signed an agreement to end the war in Gaza. But life in Gaza looks nothing like peace.

President Trump at a campaign rally in Syracuse, N.Y., on Friday. His announcement that the United States would buy Russian diesel was followed by the lifting of U.S. sanctions on Russian diesel exports.

President Trump threatened Iran in a speech on the first day of the United Nations General Assembly on Tuesday.

From right, Jared Kushner, Steve Witkoff and the former British prime minister Tony Blair receiving a briefing as members of President Trump’s Board of Peace on the sidelines of the U.N. General Assembly in New York on Wednesday.

President Masoud Pezeshkian of Iran, next to the honor guard, at the funeral for Ayatollah Ali Khamenei in Tehran in July.

President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine, left, with the U.S. envoys Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner on Sunday in Kyiv.

In a photo that Russia’s presidential envoy, Kirill Dmitriev, shared on social media, Jared Kushner, center, and Steve Witkoff, left, were greeted by Mr. Dmitriev after arriving in Moscow on Saturday.

Kyrylo Budanov, chief of staff to President Volodymyr Zelensky, in his office in Kyiv, Ukraine, on Saturday.

An Israeli airstrike targeted a car in Gaza City earlier this month.

Palestinians mourned loved ones at Al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza City on Tuesday after a cafe near the Gaza port was attacked.

Jared Kushner speaking about the Board of Peace, an organization backed by the Trump administration to end the war in Gaza, during the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, in January.

People in Tehran, Iran, last month. Iranians are coping with severe economic strain from six months of war.

Jared Kushner earlier this year.

Ships anchored this month in the Strait of Hormuz off the coast of Bandar Abbas, Iran.

Rescue workers at the site of a Russian strike on a residential building in Odesa, Ukraine, this week.

Vessels in the Strait of Hormuz, as seen from Oman last Monday.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel, shown last month, told his cabinet on Sunday, “Israel is ruling out the 15-point document.”

Ships near the Strait of Hormuz, as seen from Musandam, Oman, on Thursday.

A mass funeral in Gaza City on Tuesday for 112 people whose bodies had been pulled from rubble in recent weeks.

Ships in the Strait of Hormuz, as seen from Musandam, Oman, on Monday.

President Trump disembarks from Air Force One at the airport in Morristown, N.J., on Friday.

Dust covering the hills in the areas of Arnoun and Al Shaqif near the Beaufort castle in southern Lebanon, after Israeli forces carried out a series of detonations on Friday.

Palestinians inspecting the aftermath of a strike near Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital in Deir al-Balah, central Gaza, on Saturday.

President Trump with President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine at Mar-a-Lago, in Palm Beach, Fla., last year.

President Trump and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel are both facing electoral challenges in the months ahead.

Houthi supporters during a protest in the Yemeni capital, Sanaa, this month.

President Trump has struggled to decisively end the war with Iran, even as the global economic toll and number of American casualties have mounted.

A Marine sentry posted outside the doors of the West Wing on Friday afternoon.

Prime Minister Ali al-Zaidi of Iraq meeting with President Trump at the White House this month.

Oil tankers and cargo vessels were anchored last month off the coast of Oman during an effective blockade of the Strait of Hormuz.

A mural in Tehran in June. The likelihood of an easing of tension between the United States and Iran looks distant at the moment, but there are small signals that diplomacy could still be possible.

A vessel at the Strait of Hormuz, as seen from Musandam, Oman, on Wednesday.

A banner in Tehran last week threatening President Trump.

Israel’s war against Hamas has left homes largely destroyed in Khan Younis in southern Gaza.

Soldiers escorted Haneen Sayed, the minister of social affairs, through the town of Arqoub in southern Lebanon in May.

President Trump at Joint Base Andrews on Thursday. He recently said the memorandum of understanding reached with Iran was “over.”

The Strait of Hormuz seen from Musandam, Oman, this month. While the Trump administration has said that a cease-fire would fully lift Iran’s blockade of the strait, that has yet to be borne out.

President Trump at the White House on Monday. The United States has bombed more than 170 Iranian military targets over two nights this week as a cease-fire unraveled.

President Trump at the NATO summit in Ankara, Turkey, on Wednesday.

Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf, left, with Abbas Araghchi, center, traveled to Switzerland in June for a second in-person meeting with Vice President JD Vance and the American delegation.

Steve Witkoff, a White House special envoy, has met with President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia seven times since President Trump returned to office.

A man in the village of Nabatieh al Fawka, Lebanon. He returned earlier this week after fleeing heavy fighting between Israeli forces and Hezbollah in the area.

A cargo vessel anchored off the coast of Oman near Muscat last week.

Boats anchored off Oman’s northern Musandam Peninsula near the Strait of Hormuz on Saturday.

A main street in Dahiya, a collection of neighborhoods south of Beirut, the Lebanese capital, in June. On any given day, Dahiya hums with bustling city rhythms.