Kurdistan Region President Nechirvan Barzani (right) during his meeting with His Holiness Patriarch Mor Ignatius Aphrem II, Patriarch of the Syriac Orthodox Church, Oct. 16, 2025. (Photo: Kurdistan Region Presidency)
Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP) Deputy Leader Masrour Barzani, speaking at a campaign rally for the KDP’s List 275 in Erbil, October 16, 2025. (Photo: Kurdistan24)
Mourners light candles in Kathmandu, during a candlelight vigil held for Bipin Joshi, a deceased Nepali who died while being held hostage in Gaza by Hamas, October 15, 2025. (Photo: AFP)
The U.S. Marine Corps 22nd Expeditionary Unit (SOC) conducts an amphibious operation training in the Caribbean Sea, 2025. (Photo: U.S. Southern Command)
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)
