This image released by the US Department of Defense shows the compound housing ISIS emir Al-Qurayshi in northwest Syria prior to a raid executed by US forces, Feb. 3, 2022. (Photo: US Department of Defense / HO / AFP)
A handout picture released by Iraq's Prime Minister's Media Office on January 9, 2022 shows Iraqi lawmakers attending the inaugural session of the parliament in Baghdad, three months after legislative elections. (Photo: AFP)
Kurdistan Region President Nechirvan Barzani (left) poses for a photo with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, Feb. 2, 2022. (Photo: Presidency of the Republic of Türkiye)
Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP) President Masoud Barzani in meeting with France's Ambassador to Iraq Eric Chevallier. Feb. 2, 2022. (Photo: Barzani Headquarters)
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)