Iraqi, Kurdistan Region, and officials from international organizations stand for a group photo at the announcement ceremony of an EU and UN initiative to fight corruption, May 25, 2021. (Photo: UNDP/Twitter)
Kurdistan Region Prime Minister Masrour Barzani (center) lays the foundation stone of a wheat marketing project in Sulaimani province, May 23, 2021. (Photo: KRG)
Protests erupted in Qamishlo and other cities in northern Syria on Tuesday in opposition to a decision to increase fuel prices. (Photo: Kurdistan 24/Ekrem Salih)
KRG Prime Minister Masrour Barzani (center) tours the Med Steel factory compound in Erbil alongside the investor and public officials, May 18, 2021. (Photo: KRG)
An operation was underway on March 25, 2021 to try to free the Panama-flagged Ever Given cargo ship which became wedged in the Suez Canal and blocked the vital shipping route. (Photo: Suez Canal Authority via AP)
Kurdistan Region Prime Minister Masrour Barzani (right) meets with the new head of Japan's consular office in Erbil, Nikhiro Arakawa, April 20, 2021. (Photo: KRG)
Flames emerge from the flare stacks at the West Qurna-1 oilfield, which is operated by ExxonMobil, near Basra, Iraq June 1, 2019. (Photo: REUTERS/Essam Al-Sudani)
