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)
Mourners gather during the funeral of Kurdish victims killed the previous night by Turkish-backed fighters amid Newroz New Year celebrations, in Jindiris, rebel-held province of Aleppo on March 21, 2023 (Photo: Omar Haj Kadour/AFP)
A supporter of Iraqi Shia cleric Moqtada al-Sadr holds up a copy of the Quran during a rally in Iraq’s city of Kufa denouncing the burning of the Muslim holy book in Sweden (Photo: AFP)
