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.