Iranian police officers clash with demonstrators in Tehran. Police said Amini fell into a coma as she waited with other detained women at a morality police station, rejecting allegations that she was probably beaten (Photo: AFP).
On Sept 21, 2022, US Assistant Secretary of Defense Celeste Wallander and Minister of Peshmerga Affairs Shoresh Ismail Abdulla signed a renewed MOU (Photo: Kurdistan Region Presidency)
Kurdistan Region Prime Minister Masrour Barzani (right) during his meeting with US Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Affairs Dr. Celeste Wallander in Erbil, Sept. 21, 2022. (Photo: KRG)
Iraqi Prime Minister Mustafa Al-Kadhimi participates in the 77th United Nations General Assembly, Sept. 20, 2022. (Photo: Media Office of the Prime Minister)
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken speaks during a State Department careers conversation at Purdue University, on September 13, 2022, in West Lafayette, Indiana. (Photo: Darron Cummings/AFP)
Iranian Kurds participate in a march in a parkSulaimani against the killing of of Mahsa Amini, a woman in Iran who died after being arrested by the Islamic republic's "morality police", Sept. 19, 2022. (Photo: shwan Mohammed/AFP)
Kurdistan Region President (left) walking alongside the UK Secretary of Foreign Affairs Liz Truss in London, Sept. 16, 2021. (Photo: Liz Truss/Twitter)
Kurdistan Region President Nechirvan Barzani paying his respects at the coffin of UK's longest-reigning monarch, Queen Elizabeth II, lying in state at Westminster Hall, Sept. 18, 2022. (Photo: John Sibley/Pool/AFP)
Kurdistan Region President Nechirvan Barzani signing the Book of Condolence set up at the UK Consulate General in Erbil to pay his tribute to the late Queen Elizabeth II, Sept. 11, 2022. (Photo: Kurdistan Region Presidency)
Shiite Muslims gather in Iraq's shrine city of Karbala, to mark 40 days after the holy day of Ashura commemorating the seventh century killing of Imam Hussein (Photo: Mohammed Sawaf/AFP).