Mask-clad students listen to their instructor on the first day of the new school year in the Kurdistan Region amid the coronavirus pandemic, Sept. 27, 2020. (Photo: AFP/Safen Hamid)
UN envoy to Iraq Jeanine Hennis-Plasschaert speaks at an online event held by Yezidi (Ezidi) rights group, Yazda. (Photo: Screenshot of Yazda conference)
Iraqis inspect the site of the explosion in a popular market in the mostly Shia neighborhood of Sadr City, east of Baghdad, July 19, 2021. (Photo: Ahmad al-Rubaye/AFP)
Mourners gather around coffins of loved ones during a mass funeral for Yezidi (Ezidi) victims of ISIS in Sinjar (Shingal) district’s village of Kojo, Feb. 6, 2021. (Photo: Zaid al-Obeidi/AFP)