Iraqi security forces stand guard outside a mountain tourist spot which was hit with artillery bombardment in the Zakho district village of Parakh in the north of Iraq's autonomous Kurdish region, July 22, 2022. (Photo: Safin Hamed/AFP)
Iraqi Prime Minister Mohammad Shia' Al-Sudani (right) during his meeting with EU chief diplomat, Josep Borrell, Dec. 21, 2022. (Photo: Iraqi Prime Minister Office)
President Volodymyr Zelensky takes part in an award giving ceremony to Ukrainian servicemen who have been holding back a fierce and months-long Russian military campaign for the city, Dec. 20, 2022. (Photo: Ukranian Presidential Press Servi
French President Emmanuel Macron meets Jordan's King Abdullah II (L) during the "Baghdad I" summit in the Iraqi capital on August 28, 2021. (Photo: AFP)
(Front L to R) French President Emmanuel Macron, Iraq's Prime Minister Mohamed Shia al-Sudani, Jordan's King Abdullah, Egypt's President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, and Jordan's Crown Prince Hussein, Dec. 20, 2022. (Photo: Khalil Mazraawi/AFP)
A woman holds up a photo of Kurdish leader Selahattin Demirtas in a demonstration to protest against the Turkish government's policy on November 4, 2016, in Frankfurt, Germany (Photo: Boris Roessler, DPA/AFP)
A man rides a camel along a road past signs bearing the name and logo of the "Baghdad Conference for Cooperation and Partnership", Dec. 19, 2022. (Photo: Khalil Mazraawi/AFP)
Iraqi government officials wearing white coveralls and face masks destroy nearly six tons of drugs, some of which had been in storage for more than a decade, Dec. 18, 2022. (Photo: Sabah Arar/AFP)
President Masoud Barzani (right) during his meeting with Ni Ruchi, the outgoing Consul General of China to Erbil, Dec. 18, 2022. (Photo: Barzani Headquarters)
