Iraqi election officials conduct the electronic count of votes at a polling station in Erbil, the Kurdistan Region capital, on October 10, 2021. (Photo: Safin Hamed / AFP)
Iraqi election officials conduct the electronic count of votes at a polling station in Erbil, the capital of the Kurdish autonomous region in northern Iraq, on October 10, 2021. (Photo: SAFIN HAMED/AFP)
A disabled Iraqi elderly woman is helped to cast her vote during voting in early parliamentary elections at a polling station in Iraq's capital Baghdad, Oct. 10, 2021. (Photo: Ahmad al-Rubaye/AFP)
An IHEC employee assists a Kurdish man in capital Erbil to cast his vote for Iraq's early parliamentary elections, Oct. 10, 2021. (Photo: Safin Hamed/AFP)
Iraqi Prime Minister Mustafa al-Kadhimi casts his vote during parliamentary elections in Baghdad, Iraq, Sunday, Oct. 10, 2021. (Photo: Khalid Mohammed/AP)
The Kurdistan Region Prime Minister Masrour Barzani raises his inked finger after casting his vote in Erbil, Oct. 10, 2021. (Photo: Screengrab/Kurdistan24)
Lebanon's capital Beirut in darkness during a power outage, with the Electricite du Liban (Electricity Of Lebanon) national company headquarters in the foreground, Beirut, Lebanon, April 3, 2021. (AFP Photo)
A man is seen walking with a stick in the main square around Erbil's Citadel in the capital of the Kurdistan Region, April 15, 2021. (Photo: Safin Hamed/AFP)