Culture
Hundreds of Kurdish people lit torches and walked up Mount Kale in celebration of the Kurdish new year in Akre, known as the capital of Newroz, on Sunday evening (Photo: Safin Hamed/AFP)
Ismail Kamil, the head of the Kurdish Diaspora Confederation, speaking to Kurdistan 24, March 26, 2023. (Photo: Kurdistan 24)
Kurdistan Region Prime Minister Masrour Barzani delivering remarks at a Newroz party in Erbil, March 20, 2023. (Photo: KRG)
Kurdistan Region Prime Minister Masrour Barzani delivering a speech on the national Kurdistan's Flag Day, Dec. 17, 2020. (Photo: KRG)
President Masoud Barzani during a press conference. (Photo: Khalid Mohammed/AP)
A number of men hold lit torches as they climb on a mountain in the Kurdistan Region Akre town on the eve of Kurdish New Year Newroz, March 20, 2022. (Photo: Safin Hamed/AFP)
A music performance held at Newroz and Freedom Festival in 2022 in Erbil. (Photo: Erbil Governorate)
German Kurdish artist arrested in Turkey
The inauguration of the 15th International Book Fair (Photo: Kurdistan 24)
UNESCO Director General Audrey Azoulay (Photo: Aurelien Morissard/AP)
The logo of the new album in memoriam of the victims of Halabja (Photo: Pervin Chakar/Twitter)
Kurdistan Region Prime Minister Masrour Barzani speaking during the seventh TedxNishtiman event in Erbil, March 4, 2023. (Photo: KRG)
People watch a cockfight at a popular cafe in Iraq's southern city of Basra, Feb. 24, 2023. (Photo: Hussein Faleh/AFP)
Security forces in the Kurdistan Region's Erbil province enforce COVID-19 lockdown, March 2020. (Photo: Safin Hamed / AFP)
Kurdistan Region Prime Minister Masrour Barzani is pictured during a weekly ministerial meeting in Erbil. (Photo: KRG)
A picture of TikTok celebrity Aboud Skeeba, who was jailed by the authorities and later realeased, Feb. 12, 2023. (Photo: Ahmad Al-Rubaye/AFP)
