Street vendors gather outside the faded facade of the Granada Cinema, an early 1940s landmark, in the Bab al-Sharqi district of central Baghdad on May 26, 2026. (AFP)
Kurdistan Region President Nechirvan Barzani (left) during his meeting with Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi, July 3, 2026. (Photo: Kurdistan Region Presidency)
Kurdistan Region President Nechirvan Barzani (R) being received by Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian (L), Tehran, Jul. 3, 2026. (Photo: KRP Barzani/X)
Dr. Hemn Hawrami, Deputy Speaker of the fifth-term Kurdistan Parliament and a member of the Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP) Politburo. (Photo: Kurdistan Parliament)
The coffins of Iran's slain supreme leader Ali Khamenei and his family members are pictured at the Grand Mosalla in Tehran on July 3, 2026. (Photo: AFP)
Syrian Foreign Minister Asaad al-Shaibani (L) meets with Lebanese Parliament Speaker Nabih Berri at the speaker's residence in Beirut on July 2, 2026. (AFP)
Graphic overlay combining silhouettes of oil derricks and a pumpjack with a US hundred-dollar bill, set against the background of the national flag of Iraq. (Graphic: .oilandgasmiddleeast)
President Masoud Barzani (right) during his meeting with Ibrahim Kalin, Director of Türkiye's National Intelligence Organization, July 1, 2026. (Photo: Barzani Headquarters)
Dindar Zebari (middle), the KRG's Coordinator for International Advocacy, at the Global Alliance to Counter Migrant Smuggling, July 1, 2026. (Photo: Submitted to Kurdistan24)
An Iraqi army armoured humvee vehicle is deployed near the banks of the Tigris River to protect the US Embassy headquarters (R) in Baghdad's fortified "Green Zone" on March 18, 2026. (AFP)
