Kurdistan Region PM Masrour Barzani speaks at the ceremony to lay the cornerstone of the KII's Science Park in Erbil, October 15, 2025. (Photo: Kurdistan24)
Dressed in their traditional clothing, Christians dance and wave flags as they march to the sound of a music troupe during "Aketo" celebration, Dohuk. (Photo: AFP)
Safa al-Mashhadani, a member of the Baghdad Provincial Council and Iraq’s al-Siyada Sunni Alliance parliamentary candidate, was assassinated on October 15, 2025. (Photo: Social Media)
This photograph shows portrait placards of Cecile Kohler and Jacques Paris, two French citizens detained in Iran, set up on a fence of the French National Assembly, in Paris on Oct. 6, 2025.
Park Jung-hoon, head of the MRO TF team of Hanwha Ocean Special Ship (L), Volodymyr Borovets, chief prosecutor of the American Association of Ships (ABS), holding hands at the shipyard. (Photo: Hanwha Ocean)
Kurdistan Region President Nechirvan Barzani (right) during his meeting with the former CIA Director General David Petraeus, Oct. 13, 2025. (Photo: Kurdistan Region Presidency)
Kurdistan Region PM Masrour Barzani, (R), General David Petraeus, former director of the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), Erbil, October 13, 2025.
from the left, Intelligence Chief Hussein al-Salamah, Defense Minister Marhaf Abu Qasra, FM Asaad al-Shaibani, Türkiye's FM Hakan Fidan, Türkiye's Defense Minister Yasar Güler and Turkish intelligence chief Ibrahim Kalin. (Photo: Fidan's X)
