Kurdistan Region Prime Minister Masrour Barzani. R, Ahmet Davutoğlu, leader of the Future Party and former Prime Minister of Türkiye, Erbil, June 9, 2026.
Prime Minister Ali Falih al-Zaidi attends a Coordination Framework meeting in Baghdad to discuss economic reforms and key national issues, June 8, 2026. (SCF Media)
Halkawt Aziz, a highly regarded broadcast journalist and the Baghdad Bureau Manager for the Rudaw Media Network, who passed away on Monday Jun. 8, 2026. (Graphics: Kurdistan24)
People cross the street past a large billboard showing portraits of Iran's late supreme leader, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini (L) and slain supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei (R) in central Tehran on June 8, 2026. (AFP)
A woman walks past a television screen showing a news broadcast with file footage of the 2019 meeting between China's President Xi Jinping and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, at a train station in Seoul on June 8, 2026. (AFP)
A man checks a fallen rocket half-buried in the ground on the outskirts of Jericho on June 8, 2026, following Iranian and Iran-backed Houthi rebel attacks. (AFP)
A graphic illustrates the geopolitical tensions in the Red Sea following a declaration by Yemen's Houthi movement to ban Israeli-affiliated ships from the region, highlighting the strategic importance of the Bab al-Mandab Strait. (Graphic: Kurdistan24)
Pro-government Iranian demonstrators wave flags of Iran and Lebanon's Hezbollah after Isreali strikes on Beirut's southern suburbs in Tehran, June 7, 2026. (AFP)
Fighters lift flags of Iraq and paramilitary groups, including Kataib Hezbollah, during a funeral in Baghdad for five militants killed a day earlier in a US strike, Iraq, Dec. 4, 2023. (AFP)
US President Donald Trump speaks during a roundtable on "American Agriculture" at Custer Farms in Chippewa Falls, Wisconsin, on June 5, 2026. (Photo: AFP)
First responders inspect damage at the site of an Israeli airstrike on an apartment building in Beirut's southern suburbs on June 7, 2026. (Photo: AFP)
Cargo ships, including bulk carriers and general cargo vessels, sit at anchor offshore as a small motorboat passes in the foreground, in the Strait of Hormuz off Bandar Abbas, Iran. (Photo: AP)
Iran's Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei, the son of Iran's former Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, center, attends the annual Quds, or Jerusalem Day, rally in Tehran, Iran, May 31, 2019. (AP)
Iran's players arrive at Antalya airport, southern Turkey, on June 6, 2026, before departing to Tijuana, Mexico, for the World Cup soccer tournament. (AP)
Ministry of Agriculture employees release fish fingerlings into a Kurdistan Region dam reservoir to boost fish stocks and support local production. (Photo: Kurdistan24)
Lebanese Army Commander General Rodolph Haykal, R, being received by his French counterpart, Chief of the French Armed Forces General Fabien Mandon, Paris, France, December 17, 2025. (Photo: MTV)
