Ahmed Bayram, a media and communications adviser at the Norwegian Refugee Council in the Middle East, speaking to Kurdistan 24, Oct. 14, 2023. (Photo: Kurdistan 24)
Riding a donkey drawn cart as family along with hundreds of other Palestinian flee following the Israeli army's warning to leave their homes and move south before an expected ground offensive, in Gaza City, Oct. 13, 2023. (Photo: Mahmud Ham
Kurdistan Region Prime Minister Masrour Barzani (right) during his meeting with US Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Iraq and Iran, Victoria Taylor, Oct. 12, 2023. (Photo: KRG)
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken speaks before boarding a plane, October 11, 2023, at Joint Base Andrews, Maryland, en route to Israel (Photo: Jacquelyn Martin / POOL / AFP)
Kurdistan Region Prime Minister Masrour Barzani (right) during his meeting with the advisors of Iraqi Prime Minister Mohammed Shia al-Sudani, Oct. 11, 2023. (Photo: KRG)
Nechirvan Barzani, the president of the Kurdistan Region (right), during his meeting with the incoming European Union Ambassador to Iraq, Thomas Seiler, Oct. 11, 2023. (Photo: Kurdistan Region Presidency)
This picture shows the aftermath of a Turkish strike on the Babasi oil facility in the countryside of al-Qahtaniya in Syria's Kurdish-controlled northeastern Hasakeh province on October 6, 2023 (Photo: Delil souleiman/AFP)
The aircraft carrier Gerald R. Ford and destroyers Thomas Hudner, Ramage and McFaul conduct a drill while underway in the Atlantic Ocean as part of the Gerald R. Ford Carrier Strike Group March 5. (Photo: MC2 Malachi Lakey/Navy)