Sarbast Lezgin, a member of the Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP) Politburo and head of Dohuk's KDP Organizational office, delivering a speech, Sept. 15, 2024. (Photo: Kurdistan24)
This aerial view taken on June 13, 2021, shows human remains, reportedly of victims of the 2014 Badush prison massacre committed by the Islamic State (IS) group. (Photo: Zaid al-Obeidi/AFP)
Iraqis sit at a popular cafe overlooking the old city of Mosul on September 2, 2024, seven years after the Islamist State (IS) group was ousted from the northern Iraqi city. (Zaid al-Obeidi/AFP)