A picture taken on August 17, 2015 shows buildings that were damaged during fighting between Kurdish Peshmerga forces and ISIS militants in the town of Sinjar. (Photo: Safin Hamed/AFP)
Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP) President Masoud Barzani (right) during his meeting with Kuwaiti Consul General to Kurdistan Region Othman Dawoud Al-Dawoud, Jan. 29, 2023. (Photo: Barzani Headquarters)
People stand in front of damaged buildings, in the town of Douma, the site of a suspected chemical weapons attack, near Damascus, Syria, Monday, April 16, 2018. (Photo: Hassan Ammar/ AP)
Iraqi Prime Minister Mohammad Shia' Al-Sudani speaking during an exclusive France 24 interview in the French capital Paris, Jan. 27, 2023. (Photo: Screengrab/France 24)
Ukrainian women and children cross the border from Ukraine to Poland at the Korczowa-Krakovets border crossing on Feb. 26, 2022. (Photo: Janek Skarzynski/AFP)
'Joseph the Blind', a family-run herbal shop in Turkey's mostly Kurdish Diyarbakir, has survived more than a century of political turmoil (Photo: ILYAS AKENGIN / AFP)
Haider Hannoon, the Head of the Iraqi Commission of Integrity (left), signing the memorandum of understanding with Charles Duchaine, the Head of the French Anti-Corruption Agency, Jan. 27, 2023. (Photo: Media Office of Iraqi Prime Minister)
Kurdistan Region Prime Minister Masrour Barzani (right) on Thursday talked by phone with White House Coordinator for the Middle East and North Africa (MENA), Brett McGurk (left) (Photo: Kurdistan 24)
Turkish-backed Syrian rebel fighters hold a Turkish national flag and a Free Syrian Army flag at a checkpoint in Azaz on a road leading to Afrin (Photo: AFP)
