A firefighter checks the damage in an event hall in Qaraqosh, also known as Hamdaniya, after a fire broke out during a wedding, killing at least 100 people and injuring more than 150, Sept. 27, 2023. (Photo: Zaid Al-Obeidi/AFP)
Egypt's President Hosni Mubarak (2nd-R) review Egyptian soldiers during a military parade outside Cairo to mark the 25th anniversary of the 1973 Arab-Israeli war, Oct. 6, 1998. (Photo: Amr Nabil/AFP)
Kurdistan Region Prime Minister Masrour Barzani (right) during his meeting with the head of the United Nations Assistance Mission to Iraq (UNAMI) Jeanine Hennis-Plasschaert, Sept. 30, 2023. (Photo: KRG)
This frame grab from video aired by Iranian state television on Sept. 27, 2023, shows what Iran's Communication Minister Isa Zarepour said is a Noor-3 satellite being launched from an undisclosed location in Iran. (Photo: IRIB via AP)
Kurdistan Region President Nechirvan Barzani (right) is pictured during his meeting with Senator Titus Corlatean, Chairman of the Foreign Policy Committee in the Romanian Senate in Erbil, Sept. 28, 2023. (Photo: Kurdistan Region presidency
This handout photograph taken and released by Ukrainian Emergency Service on August 14, 2023, shows rescuers pushing out a fire in a supermarket after a night strike in Odesa on Aug. 14, 2023. (Photo: Handout/Ukrainian Emergency Service/AFP
KDP President Masoud Barzani (right) is pictured during his meeting with Senator Titus Corlatean, Chairman of the Foreign Policy Committee in the Romanian Senate in Erbil, Sept. 28, 2023. (Photo: Barzani Headquarters)
Mourners attend the funeral of victims who were killed when a fire ripped through a crowded wedding hall in the mainly Christian northern city of Qaraqosh, also known as Hamdaniyah, Sept. 27, 2023. (Photo: Zaid Al-Obeidi/AFP)
