Portraits of people forcibly disappeared in Iraq, Lebanon, Syria, and Yemen are displayed during an event organized by Amnesty International and attended by their family members in Beirut, Aug. 30, 2023. (Photo: Anwar Amro/ AFP)
French President Emmanuel Macron attends a National hommage to Jean-Louis Georgelin, a former French army chief, Aug. 25, 2023. (Photo: Bertrand Guady/AFP)
Tents erected in front of the current Kirkuk JointOperations Command building that used to serve as KDP Kirkuk Headquarters, August 29, 2023. (Photo: Hemin Dalo/Kurdistan 24)
Ahmad Abu Khawla - speaks during a press conference in the northeastern Syrian village of Abu Fas, on the southern outskirts of Hasakah province, on Sept. 9, 2017 (Delil Souleiman/AFP/Getty Images)
KRG Acting Minister of Natural Resources Kamal Mohammed (right) is pictured during his meeting with the newly inagurated US Consul General in Erbil Mark Stroh, August 28, 2023. (Photo: US Consulate General/Twitter)
Flags of Turkey and breakaway North Cyprus hang on the facade of the newly-inaugurated terminal of Ercan airport outside Nicosia, July 21, 2023. (Photo: Birol Bebek/AFP)
