Affiliates of pro-Iran militias gather near the Iraqi capital's Green Zone as part of protests to reject the official results of the national election held in October. (Photo: Social media video/Screenshot)
A demonstrator holds up a banner reading "no reform and no change while maintaining the allotment scheme", during a protest in al-Haboubi Square in the centre of Iraq's city of Nasiriyah, Oct. 25, 2021. (Photo: Asaad Niazi/AFP)
Masrour Barzani (Right), Kurdistan Region’s Prime Minister during a meeting with Christian Ritscher, Special Adviser and Head of the United Nations Investigative Team to Promote Accountability for Crimes Committed by Da’esh/ISIL (UNITAD). (
Lebanese hold Saudi Arabia flags during a protest in support of the kingdom against comments made by a Lebanese minister over the war in Yemen, in front of the Saudi Arabia Embassy in Beirut, Lebanon, Oct. 30, 2021. (Photo: Bilal Hussein/AP
Profile photos of Kurdistan Region Prime Minister Masrour Barzani (right) and UK Minister of State for the Middle East and North Africa James Cleverly. (Photo: Kurdistan 24)
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken looks on prior to the arrival of US President Joe Biden for a meeting with Italian President Sergio Mattarella at the Quirinale presidential palace in Rome, Oct. 29, 2021. (Photo: Brendan Smialowski/AFP)
A portrait of Lebanese Information Minister George Kordahi, erected by Yemen's Huthi rebels, is displayed on a billboard in the Yemeni capital Sanaa on October 31, 2021. (Photo: Mohammed HUWAIS / AFP)
Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan (L)and US President Joe Biden (R) attending a meeting during the G20 Summit at the Roma Convention Center La Nuvola, Oct. 31, 2021. (Photo: Murat Cetin Muhurdar/Turkish Presidential Press Service/AFP)
