Kurdistan Region President Nechirvan Barzani (right) during his meeting with Turkey's Deputy Foreign Minister, Berris Ekinci, Feb. 18, 2025. (Photo: Kurdistan Region Presidency)
US Secretary of State Marco Rubio (C) Michael Waltz (L), National Security Advisor of the United States meet with Saudi Arabia's Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman (R) in Riyadh on February 17, 2025. (Photo: Evelyn Hockstein/AFP)
This image taken from video provided by CTV shows emergency crews responding at Toronto Pearson Airport after a plane crash, Feb. 17, 2025. (CTV via AP)
Munther Al-Jazairi, an alleged former operative with the military security before the fall of Bashar Assad, is arrested by security forces in Tadamon, Damascus, Syria, Feb. 17, 2025. (Photo: AP))
French journalist and former hostage in Syria Nicolas Henin speaks to the press as he arrives on the first day of the trial of Mehdi Nemmouche, at the Special Assize Court of Paris on February 17, 2025. (Photo: AFP)
German police officers control id documents of passengers on a long distance bus on the German/French border in Kehl, western Germany, on Sept. 16, 2024. (Photo: AFP)
President Masoud Barzani in meeting with Majid Takht Ravanchi, Iran’s Deputy Foreign Minister for Political Affairs, Erbil, Kurdistan Region, Feb. 17, 2025. (Photo: Kurdistan24)
Kurdistan Region PM Masrour Barzani, in meeting with Majid Takht Ravanchi, Iran’s Deputy Foreign Minister for Political Affairs, Erbil, Kurdistan Region, Feb. 17, 2025. (Photo: KRG)
US Congressman Joe Wilson Addresses Secretary of State and National Security Advisor Nominees Regarding Georgia, Jan. 1, 2025. (Photo: Wilson's profile)
A photo taken from the southern Lebanese village of Kfar Hamam shows smoke rising after an explosion during an Israeli army operation in the village of Kfarshouba near the border on Feb. 16, 2024. (Photo: AFP)
Hundreds of people carrying fiery torches climb up the Kale mountaintop, located in Akre, a town in Kurdistan Region's Duhok province popularly referred to as the capital of Newroz, the Kurdish New Year. (Photo: Wladimir van Wilgenburg)
Spokesperson for the Preparatory Committee for the Syrian National Dialogue Conference, Hassan Al-Daghim, in an interview with Kurdistan 24 in Damascus, Feb. 16, 2025.(Photo: Kurdistan24)
Kurdistan Region President Nechirvan Barzani speaking at the presser on the sidelines on Munich Security Conference, Feb. 16, 2025. (Photo: Kurdistan24)
Kurdistan Region President Nechirvan Barzani (R) and Tobias Lindner (L), the Minister of State at the Federal Foreign Office of Germany. (Photo: Kurdistan Region Presidency)
An Israel Air-Force (IAF) Boeing 707 refueling plane and several F-35 and F-15 fighter jets carry out a drill just off the coast of Israel, August 15, 2024. (Photo: Israel Defense Forces IDF)
Syria's interim leader Ahmed al-Sharaa attending a meeting with officials and local leaders in the northwestern city of Idlib on Feb. 15, 2025. (Photo: AFP)