Smoke billows from the Babasi oil facility in the countryside of al-Qahtaniya in Syria's Kurdish-controlled northeastern Hasakeh province on October 6, 2023 following a Turkish strike (Photo: Delil souleiman/AFP)
Kurdistan Region Minister of Interior Reber Ahmed is pictured during giving remarks at the inauguration of Operation Room at JCC, Oct. 10, 2023. (Photo: Kurdistan 24)
Rescue crews search for people believed still missing from a migrant shipwreck close to a beach near Cutro, southern Italy, Tuesday, Feb. 28, 2023. (Photo: Valeria Ferraro/ AP)
Migrants from Syria walk towards a refugee camp at Kokkinotrimithia, outside of the capital Nicosia, in the eastern Mediterranean island of Cyprus on Sunday, Sept. 10, 2017. (Photo: Petros Karadjias/ AP)
Iraqi Minister of Foreign Affairs and Deputy Prime Minister Fuad Hussein (top right) is pictured during his meeting with Special Envoy of the UN Secretary-General for Syria Geir O. Pedersen, Sept. 17, 2023. (Photo: Iraqi government)
Kurdistan Region Prime Minister Masrour Barzani (left) shaking hands with Emberti Gialloreti Leonardo of the Community of Sant'Egidio in Erbil, Sept. 17, 2023. (Photo: KRG)
An Afghan school girl, right, walks past sacks of milled wheat on the main road in the city of Kandahar province, south of Kabul, Afghanistan, June 29, 2008. (Photo: Musadeq Sadeq/ AP)
